How Schneider Electric organises many teams around shared value streams. This playbook explains the operating model behind the OLM portal: value streams and their funding, the quarterly planning cadence, how strategic themes become team backlogs, and the sync events that keep dozens of teams aligned without drowning them in meetings. It is deliberately tool-agnostic — the model matters more than the software that tracks it. Each section ends with 'what this replaces', mapping the new practice to the legacy process it retires, because at scale the retiring matters as much as the adopting.
📊 For the PMO
The reference model behind your funding envelopes and review cadence. It fixes shared vocabulary — value streams, themes, cadences — so portfolio conversations stop relitigating structure, and its 'what this replaces' mapping is your checklist for actually retiring legacy governance instead of running it in parallel. Track this: legacy processes still running alongside their OLM replacement; each one is double cost and split accountability.
🎯 For Product Owners
The operating model your backlog lives inside: value streams, quarterly cadence, strategic themes flowing into team backlogs. The 'what this replaces' sections matter most — they tell you which legacy processes are genuinely retired, so you stop serving two systems at once. Worth a full read once and a skim each quarter. Takeaway for your backlog: check every standing commitment against the retired-process list; anything serving a dead process is deletable.
🤝 For Scrum Masters
Your context module. Team events make more sense when you can see the value stream and quarterly cadence they roll up into, and the sync events that keep dozens of teams aligned. The tool-agnostic framing helps you coach the model rather than the tracking software. The 'what this replaces' sections give you honest answers when someone asks why the old ritual died. Try this with your team: map your team's events to the cadence diagram and delete one meeting that appears nowhere on it.
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