Measure What Matters Workshop

Measure What Matters Workshop

This one-day workshop will provide an overview of SAFe’s comprehensive measurement model and explore how it can be applied across teams, ARTs, and portfolios. Attendees will have the opportunity to consider their own context and design a balanced metrics dashboard to support improvement at all enterprise levels.

When:

July 4, 2023, 9:00 am – July 4, 2023, 5:00 pm ECT

Where:

Remote

Who:

Agile Coach, Director, Release Train Engineer, SAFe Practice Consultant, Scrum Master

Event Overview

The workshop supports everyone involved with building solutions with SAFe®. This may include, but is not limited to, the following:

  • Cross-functional members of Agile Teams, Agile Release Trains, or Solution Trains running for one PI or longer
  • A SAFe Portfolio that has already identified its value streams and begun implementing LPM
  • Full Agile Teams across multiple value streams within a single Portfolio

What attendees will learn

  • The flow tools and coaching available to them
  • Current usage of SAFe Flow Metrics within their organization
  • How each of the SAFe Flow Accelerators applies within their organization
  • How to align on actions and create a flow-based improvement backlog
  • How improvement items affect the larger flow of the value stream or Portfolio

Prerequisites

This workshop is designed to support a set of cross- functional attendees from value stream(s) applying SAFe for at least one PI.

What’s included

  • Workshop materials
  • Eight hours of facilitation from a SAFe Strategic Advisor or SAFe Fellow
  • Three hours of prep time with internal SPCs or leaders

Speakers

Odile Moreau Headshot

Odile Moreau

SAFe® Strategic Advisor and SPCT (Scaled Agile Inc.)

Odile is a SAFe® strategic advisor and SPCT for Scaled Agile Inc. She guides international organisations through adoption of business agility. By combining deep matter expertise with the ability to coach on behaviour and leadership, she has been a highly effective team coach for large organisations. Odile is passionate about Lean Kanban, Scrum, Lean and SAFe, never losing sight of the human factor. With 20+ years of professional experience helping profit and non-profit organisations in the fields of IT Service Management, Business Information Management and Software Engineering across the world, Odile worked for many profit and non-profits making organisations in Europe. The last 10 years her focus has been helping teams adopt the agile mindset, principles and practices at scale and continuous improvement methods.

Andrew Sales

Chief Methodologist, SAFe® Fellow (Scaled Agile, Inc.)

Andrew has been supporting organizations with their Agile transformation for more than 10 years, drawing on his experiences from software development, project management, and product management. He previously led the Agile Services Practice across EMEA for CA Technologies (formerly Rally) and is a regular speaker at Agile conferences and contributor to the Agile community.

Accelerate Value Flow Workshop

Accelerate Value Flow Workshop

Learn how to apply Flow Accelerators to your context in this workshop to deliver value to your customers
faster. After instruction and work time, you’ll see how your area of flow affects the larger system.

When:

June 28, 2023, 1:00 pm – June 29, 2023, 5:00 pm ECT

Where:

Remote

Who:

Agile Coach, Program or Project Manager, Release Train Engineer, SAFe Practice Consultant

Event Overview

This workshop takes place over two days (June 28 and 29) in four-hour sessions from 1-5 pm (CEST).

We designed this eight-hour workshop over two days to support the range of participants needed to optimize one or many value streams.


Who will benefit:
The workshop supports everyone involved with building solutions with SAFe®. This may include, but is not limited to, the following:
• Cross-functional members of Agile Teams, Agile Release Trains, or Solution Trains running for one PI or longer
• A SAFe Portfolio that has already identified its value streams and begun implementing LPM
• Full Agile Teams across multiple value streams within a single Portfolio

What attendees will learn:
• The flow tools and coaching available to them
• Current usage of SAFe Flow Metrics within their organization
• How each of the SAFe Flow Accelerators applies within their organization
• How to align on actions and create a flow-based improvement backlog
• How improvement items affect the larger flow of the value stream or Portfolio

Prerequisites:
This workshop is designed to support a set of cross-functional attendees from value stream(s) applying SAFe for at least one PI.

What’s included:
• Workshop materials
• Eight hours of facilitation from a SAFe Strategic Advisor or SAFe Fellow
• Three hours of prep time with internal SPCs or leaders

Speakers

Rune Christensen Headshot


Rune Christensen

SPCT, Strategic Advisor (Scaled Agile, Inc.)

Rune has more than 20 years of experience working with software and cyber physical solutions within enterprise and public safety communication, insurance, logistics, and energy. He has supported several Enterprises in transforming their ways of working using lean-agile practices and helped them achieve greater business outcomes.

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Harry Koehnemann

SAFe Fellow, Methodologist (Scaled Agile, Inc.)

Harry Koehnemann is a Methodologist and SAFe Fellow at Scaled Agile Inc., where he helps organizations deliver solutions faster, more predictably, and with high quality. He has spent the past two decades working with large system builders in aerospace, defense, automotive, and other industries, helping them apply Lean, Agile, and MBSE to their engineering practices.

LEGO Digital Solutions – Business Agility Transformation Using SAFe

“ … this has ​improved the motivation​ of the team members. Going to work is more fun when there’s less confusion and less waste. And motivated people do better work, so it’s a positive cycle! Another impact we’ve seen is that other parts of LEGO visit the meeting, get super inspired, and start exploring how to implement some of these principles and practices in their own department. In fact, agile is spreading like a virus within the company, and the highly visible nature of the PI planning event is like a a catalyst.

—Henrik Kniberg and Eik Thyrsted

Update:

January, 2017 : A year after Henrik Kniberg and Eik Thyrsted shared the first phase of LEGO’s SAFe journey, they are back with the next chapter of their story. Their efforts to nip and tuck SAFe for optimal results run the gamut from large edits to small tweaks, and their learnings and outcomes are captured in a 36-page in-depth summary that is full of candid commentary and describes the thought process behind each decision. You can download it below.

Industry:

Consumer Products

Introduction

One of the world’s leading manufacturers of play materials, The LEGO Group is still owned by the Kirk Kristiansen family who founded it in 1932. With headquarters in Billund, Denmark, and main offices in Enfield, USA, London, UK, Shanghai, China, and Singapore, the company employs more than 15,000 people worldwide.

In 2014, LEGO Digital Solutions turned to SAFe to improve their collaboration model and seek out what they like to refer to as the “Land of Awesome.” Their story of business agility transformation was presented at LKCE (Lean Kanban Central Europe) by LEGO’s Head of Project Management, Eik Thyrsted Brandsgård and Lean/Kanban Coach, Mattias Skarin from Crisp.

Much like creating something from LEGO® bricks, they built their transformation one piece at a time, starting with inviting 20 managers to a 2-day Leading SAFe class. From there, they began training the teams; first one, then another until they had 20 teams trained in SAFe. They approached every step as a learning journey, allowing for creativity along the way. When something didn’t seem like a good fit, they weren’t afraid to experiment. Taking results from Inspect and Adapt, they tweaked SAFe to their needs with a simple guiding principle, “Keep the stuff that generates energy.”

“The combination of a structured system, logic and unlimited creativity encourages the child to learn through play in a wholly unique LEGO fashion.” —The LEGO Group

Their first PI Planning event—which they now refer to as their “center of gravity”—went better than expected, with the teams eager to take what they learned and apply it.

“You just can’t replace face-to-face communication, and PI planning is just a fantastic way to do that.”

Their presentation includes insights and lessons learned, such as:

  • You need critical mass
  • They can now better manage expectations
  • Don’t be afraid to experiment
  • To become good at something you need to practice it
  • Experimenting your way forward matters more than your selection of path

SAFe’s creator, Dean Leffingwell, calls their presentation, “One of the most insightful applications and presentations that I’ve yet seen on SAFe.” You can view their 45-minute video below.

Many thanks to Mattias and Eik for sharing their inspiring story!

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