As organizations start to modernize and manage work by product, traditional roles are changing. PMO roles—such as Program and Project Managers—are expanding and evolving due to the reorientation of organizations toward value-based outcomes. So what does the shift from the PMO to the VMO (Value Management Office) really look like?
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September 27, 2022, 11:00 am – September 27, 2022, 12:00 pm
Agile Rising’s team of SPCTs, including Chris Ruch, Marshall Guillory, and Andrew Keener, will discuss the organizational structure of a VMO, the key role the VMO plays in driving the transformation across both technology and business, and how an effective VMO can accelerate your transformation by:
Identifying where work is flowing across your product value streams
Establishing the cadence of events to lead the delivery of value
Generating flow metrics to measure value delivery correlated to business results
Creating a successful VMO implementation roadmap
Join us for this interactive session, where you will have the opportunity to explore your experiences and challenges in small group discussions with your peers and an experienced SPCT.
Speakers
Marshall Guillory
Vice President, Government Practice, SPCT (Agile Rising)
Marshall has over twenty-five years of business experience in software development, information technology, product management, and Government fields and sectors. He has spent the past 10+ years focused on leading digital and organizational transformations. Marshall most recently completed successful implementations of the SAFe and Lean-Agile practices, enterprise organizational change for the FAA, Emerson, the Dept. of Veteran Affairs (VA); and is currently the lead enterprise agility coach for an ongoing implementation at the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA).
Andrew Keener
Director, Training Solutions, SPCT (Agile Rising)
Andrew Keener applies expert knowledge, industry experience, and relentless energy to solving a company’s issues. As a SAFe SPCT, Andrew specializes in working with companies as they launch their Lean Enterprise transformation utilizing the Scaled Agile Framework. As the Director of Training Solutions at Agile Rising, Andrew works with leaders and managers to facilitate Value Stream workshops, identify Agile Release Trains, and launch them—combining teaching, coaching, and consulting to spread best practices in Lean Portfolio Management, Scrum, and Kanban development, and DevOps Continuous Delivery. With more than a dozen years of experience in technology management and the successful launch of seven Agile Release Trains, Andrew has the ability to work effectively with leaders and teams, listen to their ideas, and help them implement the changes necessary for successful lean-agile transformation. Andrew has worked as an implementation partner with large enterprises, including Allstate Insurance, United Airlines, and Emerson Process Automation.
Chris Ruch
CEO (Agile Rising)
Chris Ruch, SPCT has more than two decades of experience as a leader and executive in software development, Agile Product Management, and Lean Portfolio Management. He leads Agile Rising’s our team of Enterprise Transformation Coaches and specializes in large, complex transformation strategy, lean portfolio management, and SAFe across the enterprise. Chris is a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) with many years of experience overseeing agile transformations across a broad range of industries, including finance, manufacturing, technology, healthcare, and government. He is based in Agile Rising’s headquarters office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Join us at the interactive fireside chat with Phil Alfano (Apptio), Francisco Loras (Wi-Tronix), and Joe Vergara (Agile Rising) and learn how you can become the catalyst in your organization.
When:
September 15, 2022, 11:00 am – September 15, 2022, 12:00 pm
Leading organizations in the digital age are expanding agile operating models from a team to a corporate level. And agile leaders play a critical role in the transformation. They understand the company’s vision – the north star – and the chasm between the current state and the vision. In essence, agile leaders must be the catalyst to drive change management within the organization. Agile leaders need to recruit champions that can translate the value of agile to the company’s vision to their colleagues and, most importantly, business leaders.
This session will cover:
How to design a structure for the organization to expand agile to the enterprise level
Getting the right stakeholders in to align on the company’s vision – from strategy to execution
Finding the right champions that will become the backbone of the transformation
Speakers
Phil Alfano
Field CTO (Apptio)
As Field CTO, I act as the bridge between Apptio’s solution factory and our field organizations. Reporting to the Chief Revenue Officer, I liaise between Product Marketing, Product Management, Presales, and Customer Success to ensure that what we demonstrate matches what Apptio delivers. My professional purview includes partner business development, competitive surveillance, and go-to-market messaging.
Francisco Loras
RTE & Agile Coach (Wi-Tronix, LLC)
Add a short Technology enthusiast studied Industrial Engineering in Spain and obtained a Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering in Chicago. Started working for Wi-Tronix LLC as a hardware intern and grew into a Release Train Engineer role as part of a Digital Transformation at Wi-Tronix.-3 sentence bio here.
Joe Vergara is a Sr. Agile Transformation Consultant and SPCT Candidate with more than ten years of experience helping organizations improve their operations and achieve their strategic objectives using Lean and Agile approaches. Having served as a consultant and coach to multiple Department of Defense (DoD) and Fortune 500 organizations, as well as several small public and private companies, Joe brings a wealth of experience and expertise across various industries. Joe has helped multiple organizations across various industries realize their objectives by empowering people, evolving processes, and enhancing technology solutions. As part of this, Joe commits to the personal and professional growth of others by meeting individuals where they are and helping to generate opportunities for learning and growth.
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
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
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
How the world’s largest low-cost carrier leverages SAFe as a business operating model to live up to its mantra of “Better, Faster, More Efficient”
Southwest Airlines is famous for its employee-first culture and “Fun-LUVing” Attitude. And when it comes to meeting the urgent demands of technology development in a highly-complex logistical environment, a thriving culture is just the start to meeting the challenge.
To live up to Southwest’s purpose of connecting People to what’s important in their lives through friendly, reliable, low-cost air travel, Southwest began its Agile transformation in 2018 in Operations. The fantastic results led to SAFe adoption throughout Southwest.
Now four years (and counting) into their Agile transformation, more than 2,000 Southwest Employees collaborate cross-functionally across the organization. View this rare keynote interview to learn how the world’s largest low-cost air carrier is breaking ground in the airline industry by leveraging SAFe to deliver business value to its customers.
Presented at the 2022 SAFe Summit by:
Katie Morris, Director IT Transformation, Southwest Airlines
Marty Garza, Vice President, Air Operations Technology, Southwest Airlines
Moderator: Michael Clarkin, Chief Marketing Officer, Scaled Agile, Inc.
When empowerment and urgency come together, anything is possible.
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Join four Agile leaders from CVS Health to learn how they banded together to form teams out of existing trains in order to tackle their monumental, and ever-evolving COVID response with the help of SAFe.
What does it look like when all roles across an operational value stream truly come together without the usual complexity and roadblocks that come with being in a large organization? How did they show up, lead with heart, and truly live their values? And what lessons were learned that other organizations can take away from this extraordinary experience?
“Having scaled Agile in place already prior to this happening helps create a lot of clarity and transparency on where we should identify people who already had all the skill sets that we needed to really achieve this. And then it set up like a common language to talk about things like priority and how to sequence work. And honestly just really live the values of SAFe even more so than the process of SAFe which I think is just a beautiful place to be.”
Presented at the 2021 Global SAFe Summit, October 2021 by:
Caitlin Clifford, Senior Director of Digital Health Services /CVS Health
Rebecca Davis, CVS Health Digital Lean Agile Practice Leader /CVS Health
Matthew Huang, Senior Product Manager of Immunizations /CVS Health
Randy Kendel, Release Train Engineer of Immunizations /CVS Health
Lean-Agile Mindset & DevSecOps in a Multi-billion Dollar Defense System
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How do you achieve unprecedented communication between contractor, government, and stakeholders in a large acquisition?
Northrop Grumman and US Air Force agile transformation leads describe how they have worked together to leverage SAFe and DevSecOps to scale Agile practices to refine requirements, enable customer and stakeholder collaboration, and facilitate technical planning for the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) modernization program. The development occurs under a multi-billion dollar contract involving hundreds of companies and over 10,000 people across the US.
“GBSD’s 50-year mission is vital to our nation’s security and adoption of a Lean-Agile mindset is essential to meeting GBSD’s schedule and capability requirements.“
Presented at the 2021 Global SAFe Summit, October 2021 by:
David Gellen, Agile Transformation Lead for GBSD /Northrop Grumman
Micheal Burkhart, Lead for Agile Transformation of the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent program /U.S. Air Force
Reimagined technology and clinical workflows transform home care for members
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Kaiser Permanente is one of America’s leading not-for-profit health care providers and not-for-profit health plans serving 12.5 million members.
Driven by new technologies and evolving expectations for patient convenience, the golden age of care at home may be just around the corner. Reimagined technology and clinical workflows will transform coordinated and patient-centered care for Kaiser Permanente members in the comfort of their own homes.
In this video, Agile coach Steven Archer and IT leader Kari Powelson share their SAFe journey and the “ART” of making SAFe work at KP. They will describe how their Care Delivery Technology Services and Clinical Operations development teams came together to build new software and workflows and set out to prove that KP Care at Home is the future of healthcare and that it can be a great experience for members and clinicians alike.
Presented at the 2021 Global SAFe Summit, October 2021 by:
Kari Powelson, Executive Director IT Leader Home Care /Kaiser Permanente
Steven Archer, Principal Agile Coach /Kaiser Permanente
How SAFe and Business Agility helped FedEx respond to the impacts and opportunities of COVID-19
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In this interview with Dean Leffingwell, FedEx CIO Rob Carter shares a rare look inside the world’s largest express transportation company. Rob describes their seven-year journey with SAFe and Agile, their approach to business agility and Lean Portfolio Management, and why alignment between the business and IT is so critical. Turning to the business impacts of the pandemic, Rob described how the company quickly responded to a dramatic increase in package volumes and application demand with a workforce working largely from home with the help of SAFe and Business Agility.
“One of the things that the pandemic has really presented to us is a set of rapid changes in marketplaces and needs, and frankly, you can’t fake it in the face of something like what we’ve all been through in this crazy world.” —Rob Carter.
Presented at the Global SAFe Summit, October, 2020.
Customer Interview: What Pandemic? Chevron Trades in Stickies and Yarn and Improves Productivity With a Fully-supported Remote Workforce
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In this interview, Chevron’s Popov Konstantin and Rochelle Tan discuss their SAFe journey and how Chevron was able to successfully navigate the challenges of COVID-19 and improve productivity at the same time. They’ll discuss how SAFe improved employee engagement and accelerated the speed of a massive cloud migration initiative, and how they had to quickly transform from an office-centric environment to a fully remote workforce. You’ll hear about their experiences as an early user of SAFe® Collaborate, lessons learned, and why they may never fully return to the office.
Presented at the Global SAFe Summit, October 2020.
Customer Interview: SAFe at American Express — What it Means to Keep the Trains on Track While Still Debating Value Streams
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Director of Enterprise Agility Success, Oden Hughes sits down with Dean Leffingwell to talk about what it takes to manage and nurture a large-scale application of SAFe at a company like American Express focused on providing the world’s best customer experience. She’ll discuss the challenges of establishing alignment between organizations with conflicting views, and why they run their Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) as a cost center. She’ll share patterns of success, how they’ve created a tailored approach to agility for improved results, and why success depends on much more than courses, workbooks, and SAFe principles.
Presented at the Global SAFe Summit, October, 2020.
