SAFe-Agilist Exploring Lean Portfolio Management — All Questions With Answers

LPM Policy: 
- Enabler Epics: 20% of capacity 
- Business Epics: 80% of capacity 

Scenario: The team has 10,000 hours of capacity. Currently, 3,000 hours are allocated to Enablers.

{
  "policy": "Investment_Horizon_Limit",
  "value_stream": "Digital_Banking",
  "status": "ACTIVE",
  "budget_allocation": {
    "Invest": 0.40,
    "Evolve": 0.35,
    "Extract": 0.15,
    "Retire": 0.10
  }
}

Portfolio_Policy: { "Strategic_Theme_Alignment": "Mandatory", "Budget_Variance_Threshold": "15%", "WIP_Limit_Portfolio": 5, "Review_Criteria": "Business_Case_Required" }

Config: { "LPM_Visibility": "Full", "Governance_Model": "Centralized_Budget_Decentralized_Execution", "Review_Limit": 3 }

{
  "Portfolio": "Retail Banking",
  "StrategicThemes": ["Digital Growth", "Operational Excellence"],
  "InvestmentHorizon": {
    "Horizon1": "Mobile App Refactor",
    "Horizon2": "AI Chatbot Integration",
    "Horizon3": "Quantum Ledger Research"
  }
}

{
  "Epic_Name": "Cloud Migration",
  "Status": "Reviewing",
  "Economic_Benefit": "High",
  "Cost_of_Delay": "Critical",
  "Alignment": "High",
  "WIP_Limit": 5,
  "Items_in_Review": 6
}

{
  "Epic_Priority": "High",
  "Alignment": "Low",
  "ROI": "High",
  "Risk": "Low"
}

Portfolio Kanban Policy: 
- Review: WIP Limit 3 
- Analysis: WIP Limit 2 
- Portfolio Backlog: WIP Limit 10 
- Implementing: WIP Limit 5 

Metric: Analysis state has 4 items currently in progress.

Error: Portfolio_WIP_Limit_Exceeded
Context: EPIC-982 (Market Expansion)
Severity: HIGH
Action: Blocked_Entry_To_Review