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Organising Around Value – Practical Advice and Experience from the Field

Organising Around Value – Practical Advice and Experience from the Field

The speakers will share real-world examples, and you will have the opportunity to bring all your questions in order to get valuable insight and context for your transformation. 

When:

January 31, 2023, 4:00 pm – January 31, 2023, 5:00 pm ECT

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Agile Coach, Consultant, SAFe Program Consultant

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Event Overview

One of the key principles within the Scaled Agile Framework is Organise Around Value. In this webinar series, you will hear from the field on how to apply this principle and involve your organisation. 

The speakers will share real-world examples, and you will have the opportunity to bring all your questions in order to get valuable insight and context for your transformation. 

Over three sessions, the speakers will take you through:
Session 01: Aligning Around Value – Practical Advice From The Field (January 31, 2023)

Session 02: Development Value Stream Patterns – Observations from Value Stream Mapping and ART Identification Workshops (February 14, 2023) Register

Session 03: Funding and Reporting Value – How to Enable Empowerment and Hold It Accountable (February 28, 2023) Register

Speakers

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Rune Christensen

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

SAFe® Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) serving the EMEA region as SAFe Strategic Advisor on behalf of Scaled Agile, Inc. 20 years of experience within the software industry working within telecommunication as well as the financial and energy sector. Rune helps to guide organizations in fostering better ways of working using lean-agile practices to achieve increased predictability and faster time to market.

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Brian Tucker

Principal Consultant, SAFe® Fellow, SPCT (Ivar Jacobson International)

Brian was one of the first trainers outside of the Scaled Agile Academy to qualify as a SAFe® Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) having worked with the framework since its initial inception ten years ago. Brian regularly delivers the SAFe Program Consultant training and has delivered it over a hundred times in the last 8 years; more than anyone else in the world. Brian has been involved in SAFe implementations at numerous companies across Europe including hybris, PZU, Ford, Nordea, NHS Blood + Transplants, Etihad Airlines, Sony Playstation and LV Insurance. Brian is a highly proficient Agile and Scrum coach and trainer with extensive management experience in both corporate and small company situations, backed up with 11 years of software development experience.

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Business Agility in Banking: How Easy Can It Be?

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Business Agility in Banking: How Easy Can It Be?


Banking is a highly regulated business, and most of the large banks have traditions that can easily become a major impediment to new ways of working and thinking.

When:

December 7, 2022, 1:00 pm – December 7, 2022, 2:00 pm ECT

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Agile Coach, Consultant, Director

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Event Overview

Companies in the financial sector are also extremely aware of risk and financial risk management is one of the very regulated areas one has to take into account when changing the way of working.

In this webinar, Audrey Boydston and Mats will share some experiences in a dialog and discussion, as well as answer your questions.

Speakers

Audrey Boydston

SAFe® Fellow and SPCT (Scaled Agile Inc.)

As an executive management professional, I spent almost 20 years leading and managing projects and process improvement initiatives. After experiencing an agile transformation, I have discovered that it is more than just a methodology for managing product development, and am passionate about helping organizations on their Agile journeys. As an Agile trainer and coach, I have gained a unique perspective that allows me to take my hands on experiences and learnings and weave them into each training session I facilitate. I consider myself a visionary with the ability to establish rapport and facilitate highly collaborative sessions with diverse groups ranging from developers to senior leadership. I hold an array of certifications: SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT), Training from the BACK of the Room! (TBR-Certified Trainer), Project Management Professional (PMP), Org Mindset Enterprise Coach (OMEC), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM and CSP-PO), SAFe RTE (RTE), ICAgile Certified

Mats Jegebo

Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor (WoW! Agile)

Currently Head Coach and co-founder of WoW! Agile, with 29 years of experience from being a consultant. Real life experience from large projects and organizations is what has given Mats his knowledge and understanding of how you create real business value and benefit. Since 2004 Mats has worked solely with large agile implementations, in leading roles as Project manager, Change control manager, Head coach, strategic advisor, etc. Mats has spent a great deal of his career in regulated businesses and the last 6 in banking.

Scaled Agile & Volvo Cars: Tomorrow’s Automotive Industry

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Scaled Agile & Volvo Cars: Tomorrow’s Automotive Industry

Radical change is happening in the automotive industry. The sector leaders and suppliers need a faster, more cohesive, and more efficient way to build and deliver products.

When:

September 28, 2022, 4:00 pm – September 28, 2022, 5:00 pm

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Agile Coach, Director, Product Owner, Program or Project Manager

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Event Overview

Volvo Cars is our first guest for a webinar series that brings leaders who think about business challenges differently with fresh perspectives while building tomorrow’s automotive industry.

Speakers

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Harry Koehnemann

SAFe® Fellow and Principle Contributor (Scaled Agile Inc.)

Harry Koehnemann is a SAFe Fellow and Principal Consultant at Scaled Agile Inc., where he helps organizations build and deliver solutions faster, more predictably, and with high quality. He has spent the past two decades consulting with aerospace, defense, automotive, and other organizations to adopt better engineering practices, including Lean, Agile, MBSE, requirements management, quality management, and the related activities necessary to support compliance. Harry is a regular presenter on Lean-Agile topics and engineering practices at Agile, Systems Engineering, and government conferences.

Maria Hansson

Director Continuous Improvement and Change (Volvo Cars)

Maria Hansson is a senior Change Leader targeting product development within Volvo Cars. Her main focus is directed to drive transformation in collaboration with the organization. She holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology and have held a number of managerial positions within the organization over 25 years, mainly within system engineering environmental technology and powertrain controls

Seamless Payments – A Story of Successful SAFe Transformation

“To sum up, the case study of Seamless is evidence that small or medium-sized companies can benefit from a scaled agile framework with custom modifications.”

Challenge:

  • Multiple environments
  • Feature requests coming from different markets
  • Synchronizing work between teams (Software Engineering department spans 4 countries)
  • A way to deal with inevitable change of culture due to fast growth

Industry:

Technology, Financial

Introduction

Founded in 2011, and active in more than 30 countries, Seamless handles more than 3.0 billion transactions annually, making it one of the world largest suppliers of payment systems for mobile phones. Perhaps best known for its flagship mobile wallet product, SEQR (se•cure), the fast-moving Stockholm-based company has grown from 50 to 200 employees in 2 years, and is pursuing an expansive growth strategy that has presented challenges both technical and organizational.

Challenges

Seamless Payments – A Story of Successful SAFe Transformation
  • Multiple environments
  • Feature requests coming from different markets
  • Synchronizing work between teams (Software Engineering department spans 4 countries)
  • A way to deal with inevitable change of culture due to fast growth

Wanting to avoid the unnecessary bureaucracy that often comes with expansion, they turned to a scaled-down version of SAFe—along with major technical investments in the deployment pipeline—to provide a structure that would provide a solution for current challenges, and accommodate growing complexity.

The story of this SAFe transformation is published in InfoQ and comes from Agile and Lean Product Development Expert, Mikael Lundgren, and Seamless Payments’ Software Engineering Manager, Tomek Pająk. They provide an account of the experience that is rich with detail and goes beyond tactical execution to include the strategic thinking behind this scaled-down SAFe transformation. They recount:

  • How they down-scaled SAFe while maintaining its core ideas
  • Tools utilized for managing backlogs of features, epics, and stories
  • Recruiting Scrum Masters to act as Agile coaches for entire organization
  • Establishing new roles to better support working environment
  • Introducing WIP-limited program execution where work is planned in Agile Release Trains

Many thanks to the study authors, Mikael Lundgren and Tomek Pająk, for sharing your story and providing inspiration for small to medium-sized companies seeking scalable solutions as they face similar growth challenges.

Read the full story in the InfoQ article, Downscaling SAFe.

Seamless Payments - A Story of Successful SAFe Transformation

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Elekta – Adopting SAFe for a Successful Lean-Agile Transformation

Elekta is a human care company pioneering clinical solutions for treating cancer and brain disorders. They develop sophisticated, state-of-the-art tools and treatment planning systems for radiation therapy, radiosurgery and brachytherapy, as well as workflow enhancing software systems across the spectrum of cancer care. Headquartered in Stockholm, Elekta employs around 3,800 employees globally in 30 countries.

Industry:

Software

Overview

Every day 100,000 patients receive diagnosis, treatment or follow-up by an Elekta solution

Elekta’s development goal is to enhance patient and customer value by providing solutions that improve, prolong and save lives better and faster. With teams working in several time zones, and individual members having different backgrounds and history working on separate products, their challenge was to create an environment where teams could better align with global priorities and with each other.

Elekta - Adopting SAFe for a Successful Lean-Agile Transformation

In 2007, Elekta adopted Scrum, but in their attempt to scale up, they saw that the Scrum teams were operating in silos which created issues with dependency, integration, and visibility of the big picture, all causing lack of clarity on overall objectives and plan. Wanting to address all areas of the enterprise, Elekta took a holistic view and introduced SAFe to their Scrum teams, launching their first Agile Release Train (ART) in 2013. Soon thereafter, they expanded to the Program level and trained all of their teams.

Today, Elekta is running 4 ARTs with 20 teams across three continents. Their SAFe journey has delivered significant gains and improvements in several areas, provided valuable lessons learned, as well as a roadmap to refine their value streams, and tackle ongoing challenges, including a deeper integration of Lean-Agile practices at the Portfolio level. Here are the highlights:

Introduction of SAFe Led to Key Changes in the Organization

  • Introduced Rally for Agile project management
  • Adopted organization and roles for SAFe (RTE, PM/PO, UX, EA, Agile coaches)
  • Streamlined development tooling and processes
  • Updated the Quality System for Agile development
  • Simplified project time reporting

Gains Made Through Introduction of SAFe

  • Improved quality
  • Cross site and cross functional collaboration
  • PI Planning provides both vertical and horizontal alignment
  • Transparency through Rally, reports, and  SAFe ceremonies
  • Agile Portfolio estimation & planning drives realistic Portfolio plan

Elekta’s Top 3 Tips for Starting up SAFe

  • Get buy-in from management—this is not isolated to development
  • Plan for a lot of training and exchange of practices to ensure an understanding of the principles behind (the mechanics are easy to learn). Bring in consultants/experts!
  • Use Agile to introduce it (don’t wait until everything is planned and in control, just start!)
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Take a moment to read the Speaker notes in the PowerPoint; you’ll see that Elekta has been generous with sharing some of the context and nuance that can be especially helpful for anyone going through a SAFe transformation.

Many thanks to Elekta’s Director of Engineering, Petrine Herbai, Manager of Engineering, Lars Gusch, and our Gold Partner, Rally Software; we appreciate all the great information you have shared, and look forward to hearing more about your continuing journey of SAFe transformation.

Many thanks to Elekta’s Director of Engineering, Petrine Herbai, Manager of Engineering, Lars Gusch, and our Gold Partner, Rally Software; we appreciate all the great information you have shared, and look forward to hearing more about your continuing journey of transformation.

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Nordea – Adopting Agility with SAFe

Nordea - Agile Adoption with SAFe

“To see a waterfall Program Manager embrace SAFe after only two days of participating in a PI planning session is remarkable. He is now one of our biggest ambassadors of promoting SAFe within Nordea.”

Industry:

Financial, Banking

The partner that made it happen:

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Overview

With branches in 19 countries, and over 11 million customers, the European banking giant, Nordea, set a goal to deliver a new digital banking experience for its retail customers.

They determined that the best way to meet their goal was to adopt an agile development approach, and so in 2014 Nordea teamed up with Scaled Agile Gold Partner, Ivar Jacobson (IJI), and were introduced to SAFe.

IJI kick-started Nordea’s SAFe introduction with a two-day session with management and stakeholders to establish a common
way of operating. They simulated how an agile-at-scale approach would work in Nordea’s environment, provided workshop-style SAFe training for the staff involved, and one-on-one training for the Release Train Engineers (RTEs).

They combined two existing delivery streams to form their Agile Release Train; a total of 80 people formed five development teams, one system team, and various cross-functional roles to represent architecture and user experience. By January 2015 Nordea had made it through two 10-week Program Increments (PIs) and planning sessions. In both sessions, all members participated in visioning and PI planning; as a group, they identified interdependencies and were able to establish both Team PI objectives and Program PI objectives.

Nordea’s fully-committed dive into SAFe produced immediate benefits, including:

  • Increased efficiency with team members aligned and working together
  • Greater creativity as teams are empowered to make decisions
  • Management aligned and supportive of Agile teams

The teams continue to evolve and improve their delivery system with each PI, and it has inspired other parts of Nordea to scale agile with SAFe.

Of course, there is more to learn from their experience, so make sure to download the attached study for the rest of the story.

Many thanks to the folks at Ivar Jacobson for providing the guidance, coaching and training that enabled Nordea to accelerate agile adoption with SAFe, and for sharing the story of their success.

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