SAFe Leadership Forum

SAFe Leadership Forum

The SAFe® Leadership Forum Zürich presents a conference tailored to DACH leaders aiming to achieve business results through SAFe.

When:

September 27, 2023, 9:00 pm – September 27, 2023, 5:00 pm EET

Where:

Zurich, Switzerland

Who:

DACH Leaders

This immersive experience in Zürich will be packed with networking opportunities and content focused on pivotal themes, such as:
• Agile Leadership
• Business Agility
• Improve & Accelerate
• Measure & Grow

Speakers

Michele Lanzinger

SAFe Strategic Advisor and SPTC

Scaled Agile

Andrew Sales

Chief Methodologist and SAFe Fellow

Scaled Agile

Applying SAFe 6.0 for Business Agility workshop

Applying SAFe 6.0 for Business Agility workshop

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

Event Overview

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.

Speakers

Andrew Sales

Chief Methodologist and SAFe Fellow

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

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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

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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.

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:

April 20, 2023, 9:00 am – April 20, 2023, 5:00 pm MST

Where:

Remote

Who:

Agile Coach, Consultant, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, 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

Rosana (Ro) Johnson

Strategic Advisor (Scaled Agile, Inc.)

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. Rosana’s strength is mentoring client leadership teams in changing their language, influencing new habits, and ultimately shifting mindsets. She is known for being the “glue” that unites collaboration between business needs and IT solution

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SPCT, Strategic Advisor (Scaled Agile, Inc.)

Jim has worked with many notable enterprises and government
agencies such as Microsoft, Mercedes, Emerson, GM, and NASA
assisting the Supply Chain Engineering and other groups, helping
them define, implement, evangelize, and train the organisations in
a new operating model based on the SAFe framework. While at
Microsoft Jim helped to form a team of top notch coaches, acted
as an adviser to the leadership teams of the organizations, helped
form transformation plans, trained more than 1,000 team members,
coached teams to improve their agile maturity, and customized
Azure DevOps/VSTS to support the SAFe structure for work tracking
and reporting.

Accelerating Value Flow Workshop

Accelerating Value Flow

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:

April 19, 2023, 9:00 am – April 19, 2023, 5:00 pm MST

Where:

Remote

Who:

Agile Coach, Release Train Engineer, SAFe Program Consultant, Solution Train Engineer

Event Overview

We designed this eight-hour workshop 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

Cheryl Crupi

Methodologist and SAFe Fellow (Scaled Agile, Inc.)

Cheryl Crupi is an internationally recognized speaker, author and executive coach specializing in Lean-Agile change leadership. Cheryl is passionate about achieving the benefits of Agility, starting with the building blocks of team Agility to the full span of enterprise business Agility. In over a decade as an enterprise Agile change champion in Fortune 500 companies, she successfully activated confident, adaptive and innovate Agilists in 40+ countries.

Jim Fowler

Strategic Advisor (Scaled Agile, Inc.)

Jim has worked with many notable enterprises and government
agencies such as Microsoft, Mercedes, Emerson, GM, and NASA
assisting the Supply Chain Engineering and other groups, helping
them define, implement, evangelize, and train the organizations in
a new operating model based on the SAFe framework. While at
Microsoft Jim helped to form a team of top-notch coaches, acted
as an adviser to the leadership teams of the organizations, helped
form transformation plans, trained more than 1,000 team members,
coached teams to improve their agile maturity, and customized
Azure DevOps/VSTS to support the SAFe structure for work tracking
and reporting.

Rosana Johnson

Strategic Advisor (Scaled Agile, Inc.)

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. Rosana’s strength is mentoring client leadership teams in changing their language, influencing new habits, and ultimately shifting mindsets. She is known for being the “glue” that unites collaboration between business needs and IT solutions.

Measure What Matters in Business Agility Workshop

Measure What Matters in Business Agility Workshops

This one-day workshop will provide an overview of this comprehensive measurement model and explore how it can be applied across teams, ARTs, and portfolios.

When:

March 8, 2023, 9:00 am – March 8, 2023, 5:00 pm MST

Where:

Remote

Who:

Agile Coach, Change Agent, LACE Members, RTE, SAFe Program Consultant, Scrum Master

Event Overview

Business Agility sets new performance standards for organizations, requiring
fast, effective responses to emerging opportunities. This changes what we
measure, how we measure, and how we use the data to support key
decision-making. Measurement becomes a critical enabler of continuous
business performance improvement.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this workshop attendees should be able to:

  • Explain the three measurement domains that help organizations measure and grow toward Business Agility
  • Describe how KPIs and OKRs are used to define measurable outcomes
  • Apply the SAFe assessments to measure competency
  • Select appropriate flow metrics for each level of the framework
  • Identify a key set of metrics that support improved decision-making in your Enterprise

Speakers

Jim Fowler

SPCT and Strategic Advisor (Scaled Agile, Inc.)

Jim has worked with many notable enterprises and government
agencies such as Microsoft, Mercedes, Emerson, GM, and NASA
assisting the Supply Chain Engineering and other groups, helping
them define, implement, evangelize, and train the organisations in
a new operating model based on the SAFe framework. While at
Microsoft Jim helped to form a team of top notch coaches, acted
as an adviser to the leadership teams of the organizations, helped
form transformation plans, trained more than 1,000 team members,
coached teams to improve their agile maturity, and customized
Azure DevOps/VSTS to support the SAFe structure for work tracking
and reporting.

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.