The LPM in Practice series returns with an exciting view of Portfolio prioritization and Participatory Budgeting in SAFe organizations. In today’s business climate, organizations are continuously seeking innovative approaches to improve their responsiveness, and overall business outcomes. Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) has emerged as SAFe’s key strategy for achieving these goals. However, traditional funding models pose a challenge to realizing the promise of LPM and SAFe. Participatory budgeting is a collaborative portfolio event for allocating the portfolio budget to its value streams, and it’s adoption is increasing SAFe portfolios.
This panel discussion explores the integration of Participatory Budgeting and SAFe’s new application, SAFe CoFund, to advance LPM and enable focus on the right portfolio investments to achieve the strategy. The panelists feature industry experts from Cprime who have successfully implemented the shift and were the early adopters of CoFund.
Speakers
Neru Obhrai
Principal Consultant at Radtac, SAFe SPCT at Cprime, Inc.
Neru is a certified SPCT and experienced Transformation Coach, who has lead and delivered a range of large scale, complex business transformation programmes. After 3 decades of delivery of business solutions in the airline sector, Neru has also led multiple transformation initiatives within the finance and telco sectors. As a principal consultant with Cprime, Neru takes pride in establishing high performance diverse departments to deliver quality solutions and services and championing the drive for excellence
Ken France
VP, Enterprise Agility Practice and SAFe Fellow at Cprime, Inc.
Ken France is an executive enterprise coach cultivating transformational organizations, a recognized and highly-rated trainer, and one of the first US minted SPCT and a SAFe Fellow. Ken France has worked with SAFe since its inception, contributing actively to the framework, including SAFe LSE/4.0. With 25+ years’ experience in Information Technology, Ken has successfully supported multiple Fortune 100 enterprises tackling large and complex scaled agile transformations across numerous verticals.
Isaac Montgomery
SAFe Fellow and SPCT at Cprime, Inc.
I’ve spent the past 25 years working with organizations across the spectrum of sizes and industries seeking to realize the promises of business agility – responsiveness, productivity, quality, predictability, customer satisfaction and employee engagement. By helping leaders understand how their operating model and leadership practices drive the culture and performance of the organization, we’ve been able to realize lasting change and measurable improvements. Through these experiences I’ve become recognized as a thought leader in the areas of lean portfolio management (LPM), agile product management (APM), and organizational change management (OCM). While I regularly speak and teach at conferences around the world, and am a contributor to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), my passion remains working in the field, helping organizations achieve sustainable competitive advantage and business agility.
Deema Dajani
SAFe Fellow and Product Manager at Scaled Agile, Inc.
A SAFe Fellow, Deema helps large institutions create the environment to shape disruption like a startup with business agility and Lean Portfolio Management (LPM). Deema currently serves as a Scaled Agile Product Management Director focused on enabling sustainable SAFe transformations at scale. Co-founder of Women in Agile, a non-profit organization focused on breaking barriers and inclusivity in the agile community.
Government Innovation Conversations | Large Cyber-Physical Systems
How does SAFe® specifically acknowledge the work nuances within the government? Join us as we launch the “Government Innovation Conversations” webinar series to discuss government-specific pain points and solutions. The first topic is: “Large Cyber-Physical Systems”.
When:
October 23, 2023, 10:00 am – October 23, 2023, 11:00 am EST
The first topic in this government webinar series is: “Large Cyber-Physical Systems”. You will leave this webinar with answers to questions like:
Why does SAFe work for large systems in government?
How do I get started with SAFe?
What are key things I need to know about SAFe?
This event is in an “ask-me-anything” format. The panelists will start with a few predetermined questions and then answer questions from the attendees live.
Join the conversation and bring your challenges for discussion.
Speakers
Cynthia Ferreira
Federal Strategic Advisor (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
With her expertise in adapting emerging technologies to drive mission-focused programs, Cynthia advises C-suite executives, senior leaders, and architects on uncovering transformation opportunities and executing transformation roadmaps. Her experience in leading modernization efforts across multiple portfolios of work and implementing systems of governance, measures, metrics, and toolsets has proven successful.
Harry Koehnemann
SAFe Fellow & Principal Contributor (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Harry Koehnemann is a Methodologist and SAFe Fellow at Scaled Agile Inc., where he helps organizations build and deliver solutions faster, more predictably, and with high quality with SAFe. He has spent the past two decades working with large system builders in aerospace, defense, automotive, and other industries to apply Lean-Agile principles to their engineering practices, including requirements management, quality management, and compliance.
Robin Yeman
SAFe Fellow, Carnegie Mellon Executive, & Space Domain Lead (Carnegie Mellon SEI)
Expertise spanning over twenty-five years in software engineering with focus on Digital Engineering, DevSecOps, and Agile building large complex solutions across multiple domains from submarines to satellites. She advocates for continuous learning with multiple certifications including SAFe Fellow, SPCT, CEC, PMP, PMI-ACP, and CSEP.
Dr. Suzette Johnson
SAFe Fellow, Northrop Grumman Fellow, Lean-Agile Northrop Grumman Space Systems (Northrop Grumman)
Dr. Suzette Johnson serves Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems sector as a Northrop Grumman Fellow, Lean-Agile, and Technical Fellow Emeritus. Suzette works across the organization and in concert with the divisions and business units to support programs and functions in the adoption and implementation of Lean-Agile principles, processes, and digital capabilities.
To survive in today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, organisations must respond to market changes and expedite delivery cycles without compromising quality. However, implementing an Agile approach across all levels of the organisation to accelerate flow can be challenging within a complex enterprise. How can you achieve visibility? And how do you measure success?
The latest iteration of SAFe, version 6.0, highlights SAFe principle #6 – Make Value Flow Without Interruptions and the eight “flow accelerators” as the means to accelerate value flow across all enterprise levels. At this upcoming fireside chat, Mik Kersten, CTO of Planview, will discuss this principle’s practical applications to accelerate flow at all levels.
The event will consist of 45 minutes of panelist content, followed by 30 minutes discussion and Q&A.
Join SAFe Chief Methodologist, Andrew Sales, as he walks through the Applying SAFe 6.0 for Business Agility workshop and provides helpful tips for facilitating this workshop in your organization.
When:
September 28, 2023, 8:00 am – September 28, 2023, 9:00 am
Where:
Zoom
Who:
LACE Members, Release Train Engineer, SAFe Program Consultant
This one-day workshop will facilitate the development of a backlog of items to implement SAFe 6.0 guidance. Using the modules most relevant to their organization, attendees will have the opportunity to consider their own context and design a backlog of items to implement SAFe 6.0 guidance across the enterprise.
Struggling with PI Planning? Join us for a thoughtful exploration of strategies that enhance real-time collaboration and minimize cognitive load in PI Planning.
This session is designed to be interactive and focused on providing value to participants, with an emphasis on learning and growth. Whether you’re new to the field or an experienced RTE, we invite you to join us in this informative webinar.
Highlights include:
Real-Time Synchronization: Explore how bi-directional sync with ALM tools can eliminate delays, fostering efficient communication and information sharing.
Effortless Planning to Execution: An exploration of methodologies that ensure a smooth transition from planning stages to actionable execution, keeping aligned with overall objectives.
Collaboration Beyond Boundaries: Insights into tools and practices that enable effective collaboration, regardless of location.
Smart Visualization: Get insights into optimal planning through visual aids that guide, rather than dictate, the planning process.
With a focus on customer success and a user-first approach, I leverage my expertise in product/market strategy and execution to deliver tangible results that delight end-users and propel the business forward. Whether it’s identifying pain points, uncovering unmet needs, or discover hidden opportunities, I thrive on the challenge of creating innovative and impactful products that customers love.
Rosana Johnson
SPCT Candidate / SAFe Strategic Advisor
Rosana has twenty-five years of experience and is a successful result driven leader. She has an extensive background in transforming people, systems, tools and processes. Her expertise ranges from creating deliverables for complex tooling deployments to transforming teams to agile ways of working to drive productivity while delivering a solid customer/employee experience by accelerating time to market and ensuring quality and business agility.
Business agility requires close synchronization across the organization. In this webinar, learn how value stream management (VSM) aligns people and teams across functions to shared principles, practices, and tools that enable their businesses to sense and respond quickly to changing market conditions.
When:
July 18, 2023, 9:00 am – July 18, 2023, 10:00 am MST
Derek leads the Enterprise Agility Solutions Engineering Guild at Atlassian, where they help the largest and most complex organizations reach better outcomes. Prior to Atlassian, Derek helped transform how people work at companies such as Walmart, GEICO, and Capital One and federal agencies like National Archives and National Institutes of Health. He has authored 2 books and over 600 articles.
Marc Rix
SAFe® Fellow (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Marc helps large enterprises leverage the game-changing power of Lean, Agile, and DevOps at scale. He has been practicing Agile for over 20 years and is an internationally recognized thought leader, consultant, trainer, adviser, and speaker. Marc is a SAFe Fellow and member of the Framework team at Scaled Agile.
Applying OKRs in SAFe® to Create Clear Goals and Measure Outcomes
Join Amit Kaulagekar and Rohini Sharma, Industry Lead monday.com online session to help you deconstruct the concepts and provide practical application to bring it from concept to execution.
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a collaborative framework for establishing clear goals and measurable outcomes. When used within SAFe, OKRs can help to support the Core Values of transparency and alignment between the Enterprise and Portfolio strategy and the work of the Agile Release Trains and Agile Teams to deliver on this strategy. Additionally, OKRs can be applied to measure organizational improvement activities, including the desired outcomes for the SAFe transformation. Join Amit Kaulagekar and Rohini Sharma, Industry Lead monday.com online session to help you deconstruct the concepts and provide practical application to bring it from concept to execution.
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