SAFe Fellow, Chief Innovation Officer & Co-Founder, Applied Frameworks
Investing in Success: Lessons from Silicon Valley VC Portfolio Management for SAFe LPM
In this talk, we explore how large organizations adopting SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) can benefit from the agility and adaptability of Silicon Valley venture capitalists (VCs). Discover how VCs identify and assess potential investments, allocate resources strategically, and foster an environment conducive to innovation and growth. By applying these principles to your LPM approach, you can make informed investment decisions, prioritize initiatives effectively, and optimize your portfolio for success. Join us to unlock the potential of your portfolio and drive meaningful innovation in your organization.
Luke Hohmann is Chief Innovation Officer of Applied Frameworks, a boutique consulting firm helping companies create more profitable software-enabled solutions. A serial entrepreneur, Luke founded, bootstrapped, and sold the SaaS B2B collaboration software company Conteneo to Scaled Agile, Inc. Conteneo’s Weave platform is now part of SAFe Studio.
A SAFe® Fellow, prolific author, and trailblazing innovator, Luke’s contributions to the global agile community include contributing to SAFe, five books, Profit Streams™, Innovation Games®, Participatory Budgeting at enterprise scale, and a pattern language for market-driven roadmapping.
Luke is also co-founder of Every Voice Engaged Foundation, where he partnered with The Kettering Foundation to create Common Ground for Action, the world’s first scalable platform for deliberative decision-making. Luke is a former National Junior Pairs Figure Skating Champion and has an M.S.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan. Luke loves his wife and four kids, his wife’s cooking, and long runs in the California sunshine and Santa Cruz mountains
