Explore SAFe® Enterprise Explore SAFe® Enterprise Your competitors are moving fast; they have an advantage that you have access to. Chief Product Officer of Scaled Agile Inc., Inbar Oren, will provide an overview of SAFe Enterprise. When: February 24, 2022, 4:00 pm – February 24, 2022, 5:00 pm AET Where: Zoom Who: Agile Coach, Director, LACE Leader, Transformation Leader Register now Event Overview SAFe Enterprise is a system of knowledge, tools, and practices essential to successfully scale agile across the enterprise. SAFe Enterprise bundles the critical components of learning, adopting, and practicing SAFe into a single platform, accessible to leaders and teams anytime, anywhere. This webinar will explore these components and the four main areas they represent within your organization: Go SAFe, Know SAFe, Do SAFe, Be SAFe! Speakers Inbar Oren Chief Product Officer (Scaled Agile) Inbar has more than 20 years experience in the high-tech market, working in small and large enterprises, as well as a range of roles from development and architecture to executive positions. For over a decade, Inbar has been helping development organizations—in both software and integrated systems—improve results by adopting Lean-Agile best practices. Previous clients include Cisco, Woolworths, Amdocs, Intel, and NCR. Working as a principal contributor to SAFe, and Scaled Agile instructor and consultant, Inbar’s current focus is on working with leaders at the Program, Value Stream, and Portfolio levels to help them bring the most out of their organizations, build new processes and culture. A martial arts aficionado, Inbar holds black belts in several arts. He also thinks and lives the idea of “scale,” raising five kids—including two sets of twins—with his beautiful wife, Ranit.
Business Agility – The Key to Survival and Road to Success Events > Guest Speaking > Business Agility – The Key to Survival and Road to Success Business Agility – The Key to Survival and Road to Success During this panel, we’ll discuss the business decisions leaders made during their agile adoption journeys and how they think about business agility. When: August 4th @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm AEDT Where: Virtual Who: LACE Register now Event Overview Organizations that are going digital are making the shift to agile. In order to effectively scale agile across the enterprise, being able to track, measure, and communicate the value of portfolio investments becomes even more critical. During this panel, we’ll discuss the business decisions leaders made during their agile adoption journeys and how they think about business agility. What are the key challenges enterprises face and what changes do they need to make to achieve Business AgilityHow a shift to Lean budgeting is essential for enterprises to be able to achieve Business AgilityHow value stream management helps to align strategy with execution and managing investmentsHow SAFe enables organizations to increase business and technical agility and deliver value faster” Speakers Gerald Cadden SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (Scaled Agile, Inc.) Gerald is an experienced business and IT professional and Scaled Agile Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT). He has worked with many organizations, such as Ford (USA), Southwest Airlines (USA), Travelers Insurance (USA), Exxon (USA), Development Bank of Singapore (Singapore), Cathay Pacific (Hong Kong), Liberty Global (Amsterdam), and Huawei (China), guiding them in Digital Transformation and adoption of Agile at Scale using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), as well as business process re-engineering. His background in business analysis, development and consulting lets him keep pragmatic view for guiding organizations though the complexities of large transformations. Andrew Ball SAFe Program Consultant; Senior Manager (Accenture) Andrew is an Accenture Senior Manager with over 18 years’ experience with delivering complex IT transformations. He is a SPC and is currently completing his SPCT certification. Over the past 9+ years, Andrew has rolled out SAFe at the team, ART and portfolio level for a range of government and non-government organisations in the APAC region. Andrew is passionate about enabling organisations to rapidly improve their time-to-market and to achieve better value realisation. Jurriaan van der Laan Enterprise Agile Coach, Targetprocess Engagement Manager (Apptio) Jurriaan is a Certified Scaled Agile Program Consultant (SPC) and has trained hundreds people internationally in Scaled Agile Framework. As Agile Coach and SPC, he’s supporting RTEs within Apptio, and as Engagement Manager he has implemented Apptio Targetprocess for many clients. He is the creator of Targetprocess’ OKR solution and is passionate about topics like the lean-agile mindset, outcome vs. output and product vs. project. His experience in Business Analysis, Information Analysis / Requirements Management, Process Analysis, Software Architecture, Test Automation and full-cycle Software Development allows him to have a broad view on all the practicalities of transforming organizations to become agile.
Australia Post – Implementing SAFe in Delivery Services “SAFe has really helped bring the organization along its transformation journey. Its real value has been in the way it links strategy with decentralized execution, using metrics to enable a high level of transparency and fact-based decision making to focus on achieving business outcomes.” –Natalie Field, Head of MyPost Consumer Challenge: Effectively deliver solutions that sustain and further enable Australia Post as a trusted services provider, and delight customers with personalized digital products and services. Industry: Delivery Services Results: 100-fold increase in yearly production deployments with 98% cost reduction, enabling iterative product development400% Agile Release Train productivity increase over 18 monthsStrong overall delivery predictability of 80%+First-Time Delivery rate improved by 7 percentage pointsNet Promoter Score rose by 8 pointsIncreased employee satisfaction and engagement Best Practices: Establish a learning and improvement mindset – Place a primary focus on learning and continuous improvement across all facets of delivery to achieve consistent growth in maturity and effectiveness.Measure outcomes – Enabling a metrics and measurement capability links teams to business strategy and is key to ensuring business outcomes are effectively achieved.Align to DevOps principles – Building a strong technology delivery platform aligned to DevOps principles enables iterative and innovative productFocus on the entire system of work – Build organizational advocacy and sustainability by facilitating change and enablement for shared teams that support and govern Agile Release Trains. Introduction Australia Post is Australia’s iconic postal services provider. For 208 years, the organization has been integral to how people and communities connect across Australia. Through a collective workforce of over 50,000 people, Australia Post serves communities, citizens, and businesses, from large corporations to government departments. Like many organizations, Australia Post’s business has been disrupted and must transform to adapt to the digital era. Traditional business pillars such as letters are in persistent decline, while the company faces fierce competition, but also immense opportunity with the growth of ecommerce. For Australia Post, that opportunity lies in creating sustainable competitive advantage through trusted relationships between consumers, businesses, and government. Given these forces, Australia Post needed a new way of working to both sustain and further enable the organization as a trusted services provider, and to delight its customers with personalized digital products and services. SAFe: Driving Change with Lean Structure and Common Language Over the past four years, Australia Post has invested in its technology, people, and culture to change the way it works to focus on customer experiences and continuous innovation. To help achieve this agility in business, Australia Post selected and adopted the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) not only as an operating model but as a tool for change. With SAFe, the organization aims to describe, communicate, and build an understanding of how to leverage Lean and Agile principles across the organization. “The structure and discipline outlined in SAFe has been a powerful way to communicate a different way of working,” says Daniel Fajerman, Head of Digital Engineering. “Using an industry proven framework offered a strong basis to start the conversation about working differently, providing a common language and consistent base to work off.” Achieving Sustainable Change The goal at Australia Post is sustainable, lasting change that fundamentally shifts how the organization approaches and delivers against its strategies. To do so, Australia Post must equip its people with knowledge and the ability to advocate for and be a part of this new way of working. A broad and comprehensive training and enablement strategy was rolled out across the organization to build experience and maturity. With help from Mark Richards of CoActivation, a Scaled Agile partner, Australia Post trained more than 900 people in Leading SAFe® and SAFe for Teams® courses. This included key roles across executive leadership, within business functions such as finance, risk, architecture, security, marketing and sales, and of course technology leadership and teams. From the beginning, Australia Post applied a persistent focus on cadence and synchronization – keys to building alignment and embedding disciplined delivery practices across diverse teams. With all of Australia Post on the same sprint (and then Program Increment) cadence, scaling teams and ultimately forming these into Agile Release Trains (ARTs) became a natural evolution. Achieving sustainable change focused on four key interrelated areas of emphasis across the organization: Cross-functional, long-running teams – Moving from transient project teams to cross-functional, long-running teams aligned to customer experiences was a foundational, critical change to the way people work. Culture – Australia Post invested significantly in evolving the culture of the organization to one where curiosity, innovation, and a learning mindset predominate. Technology enablement – Beyond cultural and process changes, improving delivery flow and time-to-value requires an effective build pipeline and deployment infrastructure aligned to DevOps principles. System of work – Implementing a new way of working spans well beyond delivery teams to every part of the organization that supports the delivery of business initiatives. The change team worked closely with shared services groups to tailor approaches to enable and meet their needs under the Framework, including new innovative funding and governance models. This multi-pronged approach formed sustainable building blocks for change and enablement. With the goal of implementing Agile Release Trains (ARTs), the early focus was on long-running teams and culture to allow maturity to build and grow. The greatest traction came with the advocacy and leadership of business sponsors and leads, who understood the increased business opportunity and had confidence in the delivery model. MyPost Consumer – Creating a Platform for Personalized Services Today, five ARTs now support Australia Post’s value streams and associated enterprise strategies. One of those trains, the MyPost Consumer ART, sits within Australia Post’s Consumer market segment value stream. Established in 2015 to play a significant role in the shift toward customer centricity, MyPost Consumer is creating an omni-channel platform to offer personalized services to customers. The train’s primary focus: the parcel delivery experience, which sits at the heart of Australia Post’s business. The train is made up of 110 cross-functional roles, with each team responsible for specific components of the parcel delivery experience. As a multi-channel, multi-technology program, only 30% of features are purely digital. The most impactful features require changes to multiple channels and enterprise technology systems. “Getting the job done right is about focusing as much on how we work together, as what we are working on,” says Natalie Field, Head of MyPost Consumer. “We know there are many unknowns in achieving our program strategy and we don’t, and won’t, always get it right. However we also know that by respecting each other, and staying committed to rapid learning cycles, we will always come up with great solutions. “ The train has achieved strong outcomes over the past couple of years. Australia Post attributes the success of the train to several pillars: Create a customer-centric cultureBuilding a customer-centric culture meant creating an environment that empowers the entire team to make fact-based, data-driven decisions and equipping everyone to be advocates for the customer experience. Focus on metrics to drive business outcomesA strong focus on measurement has resulted in significant positive impact across the organization’s primary success measures. To help achieve this outcome, teams are equipped with technology tools and the ability to collect and report on data. This empowers teams to learn fast about in-market feature performance and make changes when necessary. The result is a data-driven approach to how the train identifies, prioritises, implements, and learns from each Program Increment. Improve continuously for greater predictability and performanceSuccess of the train hinges on an ability to improve continuously and focus relentlessly on evolving the experience to meet customer needs. The train adapts and responds to market demands, continually improving technology capabilities to advance the business across its digital channel, retail stores, delivery network, and call centre. Raising Satisfaction and Throughput, with Lower Cost A strong focus on measurement and learning to maximize business outcomes resulted in significant positive impact: Improved first-time delivery – The First-Time Delivery rate jumped by 7 percentage points over 12 months.Reduced cost – Australia Post reduced its infrastructure costs by 98%.Predictability – The train consistently delivered on 80% or more of its objectives.Customer satisfaction – The Net Promoter Score rose by 8 points over the course of one year.Employee engagement – Employee satisfaction and engagement increased.Industry accolades – The train was voted the Best Customer Centric Project in Australia / New Zealand by the CX Management Conference. Australia Post continues to evolve and grow to meet the needs of its business. Its focus on continuous improvement means the organization ever challenges itself to create the next wave of trusted services for its customers. “SAFe has really helped bring the organization along its transformation journey,” Field says. “Its real value has been in the way it links strategy with decentralized execution, using metrics to enable a high level of transparency and fact-based decision making to focus on achieving business outcomes.” Share: Facebook Instagram Twitter Reddit Mail Link Back to: All Case Studies Explore more Case Studies Suggested Case Study: Dutch Tax and Customs Administration Read the Case Study
Westpac – Implementing SAFe in Banking Services “Everyone hearing the same message from the same trainers at the same time was a huge enabler for alignment and a ‘one-team’ culture.” —Em Campbell-Pretty, Context Matters Challenge: After the successful rollout of a new online banking platform, Westpac received numerous requests for additional features and needed to deliver quickly. Industry: Banking Solution: SAFe® Results: Westpac successfully took 150 people from waterfall to Agile in one week, and garnered positive feedback from teamsTeam and business engagement went upCycle time and defects went down Best Practices: Get executive buy-in—Getting leadership on board—and participating—is essential to achieving team buy-inInclude all roles in training—Triple check that everyone is scheduled to get the training they needPrepare, prepare, prepare—A one-week launch takes significant pre-work Overview One of Australia’s “big four” banks, Westpac serves approximately 10 million consumer and business customers across Australia, New Zealand, Asia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Challenge In 2015, Westpac launched a new online banking platform. Though very successful—and award-winning—the launch resulted in a huge demand to deliver additional features quickly. The company wanted to take an Agile approach to rolling out new capabilities but lacked the training and know-how to apply it to this initiative. Solution Westpac reached out to Scaled Agile Partner, Context Matters, for guidance, leading to the decision to adopt SAFe, and form an Agile Release Train (ART) for the new features. Before launch planning began, the company settled on a vision, a prioritized feature backlog, an approach to product ownership and a decision on capacity allocation. At the time, teams were focused on delivering the final release of the in-flight program. If they were going to change the delivery approach for the next release, they would need to move fast. With a small window of opportunity, a SAFe QuickStart seemed the only answer. To achieve launch in one week, Westpac began by training everyone at the same time. Midweek, they aligned all teams to common objectives, secured commitment and continued training during planning. By week’s end, they provided orientation for specialty roles, open spaces and tool training for teams. Development teams would be available in six weeks, so Westpac grabbed that time slot—knowing the window would be tight. After buy-in from executives on the business and IT sides, they were ready for next steps. To support their efforts, they also established Communities of Practice and hold monthly technical workshops for developers. 2 Days of Leading SAFe® Training Next, 32 leaders across business and IT came together for two days of Leading SAFe training to discuss SAFe in the Westpac context, generating team excitement. Together, leaders came up with a theme for the train—Galaxy—with all teams receiving related names. “Giving the train a shared identity helps create a bond across the team of teams that is the Agile Release Train, seeding the “one-team” culture that helps trains excel,” says Em Campbell-Pretty of Context Matters. SAFe Scrum XP training brought together 60 people in one release train of eight teams over two days with two trainers in one room. The RTE additionally joined team-level training for both days, leading team members to note his commitment to SAFe. “Everyone hearing the same message from the same trainers at the same time was a huge enabler for alignment and a ‘one-team’ culture,” says Campbell-Pretty. The following Monday, Westpac launched the train. Some last-minute feature requests presented a hiccup, but the teams and leadership committed to a plan. Results: Cycle Time, Defects Down Westpac successfully took 100 people from waterfall to Agile in one week, and garnered positive feedback from teams. Team and business engagement went up while cycle time and defects went down.Agile at Westpac continues to grow, with the company holding its third PI Planning session recently. Additional Reading For a deeper dive into this SAFe experience, download Em-Campbell Pretty’s presentation to AgileAustralia16. Download the Update Share: Facebook Instagram Twitter Reddit Mail Link Back to: All Case Studies Explore more Case Studies Suggested Case Study: Capital One Read the Case Study
RMIT University – SAFe Implementation for Business Agility “The first Program Increment showed both the potential of the train to deliver value more quickly, and also the challenges facing its success. It also successfully delivered a number of features for release.” —Em Campbell-Pretty, CEO, Pretty Agile Industry: Education Solution: SAFe® Results: Positive shift in employee NPSImprovement in business engagementReduction in cycle timeIncrease in release frequency Overview Since April 2014, Scaled Agile Partner, Context Matters (now Pretty Agile), under the lead of Em Campbell-Pretty, has been supporting the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (aka RMIT University) with implementing SAFe for effective business agility transformation. RMIT is Australia’s largest university and, as the name suggests, is known for its technology focus. On November 6, 2014, Catherine Haugh (the SAFe Release Train Engineer-RTE) and some of her team presented their success story at the ANZ Oracle Higher Education User Group conference. At the time, the presentation at HEUG outlined the journey of a new Agile Release Train, describing the practices and approach of the train as well as the challenges met implementing this new way of working while introducing it to the wider organisation. A sister-presentation was delivered by the Academic Registrar, Maddy McMaster, outlining the experience of going Agile from the business point of view. Maddy is the business owner of RMIT’s Student Administration Management System (SAMS) and the business sponsor of the Student Administration Agile Release Train (StAART). StAART came into being following a shift within Information Technology Services (ITS) at RMIT towards Lean and Agile practices and a recognition that the ability to scale capability would be critical to ongoing success. SAFe was chosen to address that need and the train stood up in June 2014. StAART is the delivery mechanism for three major projects in the Student Administration Portfolio as well as day-to-day operational work requests made to enhance and support Student Administration systems. It is made up of seven feature teams which they call squads, supported by a delivery services team – about 60 people in all. StAART works predominantly with Oracle’s PeopleSoft-Campus Solutions application environment, tailoring the software to suit the organisation’s student administrative requirements through configuration and development. RMIT’s customised Campus Solutions system is known as SAMS. PeopleSoft is a commercial off the shelf (COTS) application. Early Results The first Program Increment showed both the potential of the train to deliver value more quickly, and also the challenges facing its success. It also successfully delivered a number of features for release. Even though it is early days RMIT has already seen a positive shift in employee NPS, an improvement in business engagement, a reduction in cycle time and an increase in release frequency. The overarching challenge has been one of cultural change – StAART commenced life in a distinctly waterfall environment. Thank you to Catherine Haugh (RMIT), Maddy McMaster (RMIT) and Em Campbell-Pretty for sharing their story with the SAFe community. Update – October, 2015: At the 2015 Agile Australia conference, Catherine presented an update on the StAART and its successes, including a dramatic improvement in NPS ratings from stakeholders. Her presentation includes video testimonials from the teams and ART stakeholders, as well as the data detailing the Net Promoter Scores before the ART launch and after. Additional Reading For a deeper dive into this SAFe experience, download the two presentations below. Download Part 1 of RMIT Case Study Download Part 2 of RMIT Case Study Share: Facebook Instagram Twitter Reddit Mail Link Back to: All Case Studies Explore more Case Studies Suggested Case Study: Capital One Read the Case Study
Telstra Industry: Telecommunications Overview Telstra is Australia’s leading provider of mobile phones, mobile devices, home phones and broadband internet. When Telstra’s Enterprise Data Warehouse delivery team began their Agile journey, they scaled from 1 to 5 teams in a matter of months and found themselves struggling to make the leap from agile projects to an Agile program. “After reading Dean Leffingwell’s Scaling Software Agility and Agile Software Requirements,” notes Mark Richards (Agile Coach) and Em Campbell-Pretty (General Manager, EDW Delivery), “we were inspired to establish Telstra’s first Agile Release Train.” Later, they both followed up with SPC certification to further enhance their knowledge and skills. This presentation, from Agile Australia 2013 in June, covers how SAFe provided a recipe for success, reflecting on how Telstra translated Program-level SAFe theory into practice, transforming not only the delivery capability of the EDW team, but also the culture. Adopting Leffingwell’s Scaled Agile Framework, the Theory and the Practice. Most importantly, they are getting great business results, including: Average delivery cycle time down from 12 month to 3 months6X increased in delivery frequency50% cost to deliver reduction95% decrease in product defects100% projects delivered on time and on budgetHappy project sponsorsHappy teams As we noted, Em and Mark placed an early emphasis on rapidly evolving the culture that supports Lean-Agile development, and they had some fun with it too, as you can see if you check out the The Power of Haka! on Em’s PrettyAgile blog. Share: Facebook Instagram Twitter Reddit Mail Link Back to: All Case Studies Explore more Case Studies Suggested Case Study: Telia Finland Read the Case Study