Designing the Digital Future at Porsche Learn how the separate worlds of vehicle engineering and IT came together at Porsche to reimagine the sports car of the future Share: Revolutionary things can happen when pizza is being served. You’ll find out why when you join Porsche visionaries Mattias Ulbrich and Dr. Oliver Seifert for a candid discussion about transforming one of the world’s most iconic motoring brands into a digital-first pacesetter. As huge technological advances usher in an automotive renaissance, Porsche is moving at top speed to meet the evolving needs of its customers. They are fully focused on making their cars a central element of their buyers’ lifestyle through digitalization, connectivity, and electromobility. This requires business agility, a new mindset, and a new way of working together. It also requires vehicle engineering and software teams to collaborate closely and to harmonize the differing speeds at which they traditionally work. This might have been daunting for any company that is as storied and successful as Porsche. “The most important thing is that you shouldn’t underestimate that the digital world is totally different from the physical world,” says Ulbrich. But Porsche didn’t let this slow them down. To build bridges between the groups, the company created new opportunities for people to talk, learn, and understand each other. They created the Porsche “Takt,” the heartbeat that synchronizes the teams. They focus on results and communicate the vision in a way that motivates people to visualize opportunities for change. Says Ulbrich, “If you look right now in a team, you couldn’t distinguish whether a person is from R&D, IT, sales, or marketing. They work together.” Presented at the 2021 Global SAFe Summit, October 2021 by: Mattias Ulbrich, Chief Information Officer of Porsche AG and CEO of Porsche DigitalDr. Oliver Seifert, Vice President R&D Electric/Electronics /Porsche AGInterviewer: Michael Clarkin, Chief Marketing Officer, Scaled Agile, Inc.SHOW LESS Back to: Customer Stories Explore more Customer Stories Next: CVS Health Customer Story Learn more about CVS Health
Porsche Lean-Agile Transformation Journey How the legendary automotive brand approached Lean-Agile Transformation by building the Digital Product Organization Share: Porsche leverages the power of using one language for roles, routines, and artifacts as they bring thePorsche experience into the digital age. In this presentation by Porsche transformation leaders, you will: Get insights about the transformation approach and setupLearn about the critical success factors at the beginning of the transformationFind out more about over one year of a fully remote transformation experience and remote ART LaunchesGet to know how the LACE Team handles different transformation velocities within the organizationExperience “Porsche Takt” as the Heartbeat of the transformation Presented at the 2021 Global SAFe Summit, October 2021 by: Alena Keck, Senior Manager / MHP – A Porsche CompanyJan Burchhardt, Director Digital Transformation /Porsche AG Back to: Customer Stories Explore more Customer Stories Next: ZKH Customer Story Learn more about ZKH
U.S. Airforce / Northrop Grumman – Lean-Agile Mindset Lean-Agile Mindset & DevSecOps in a Multi-billion Dollar Defense System Share: 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 GrummanMicheal Burkhart, Lead for Agile Transformation of the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent program /U.S. Air Force Back to: Customer Stories Explore more Customer Stories Next: Kaiser Permanente Customer Story Learn more about Kaiser Permanente
FedEx – Interview With CIO Rob Carter with Dean Leffingwell How SAFe and Business Agility helped FedEx respond to the impacts and opportunities of COVID-19 Share: 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 Agile. “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. Back to: Customer Stories Explore more Customer Stories Next: Chevron Customer Story Learn more about Chevron
Chevron – A Successful SAFe Journey Customer Interview: What Pandemic? Chevron Trades in Stickies and Yarn and Improves Productivity With a Fully-supported Remote Workforce Share: 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. Back to: Customer Stories Explore more Customer Stories Next: American Express Customer Story Learn more about American Express
SAFe at American Express – A Customer Interview Customer Interview: SAFe at American Express — What it Means to Keep the Trains on Track While Still Debating Value Streams Share: 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 improve results, and why success depends on much more than courses, workbooks, and principles. Presented at the Global SAFe Summit, October, 2020. Back to: Customer Stories Explore more Customer Stories Next: Nokia Software Customer Story Learn more about Nokia Software
Nokia Software Customer Interview: SAFe Improves Predictability and Team Collaboration at Nokia Software Share: Dean Leffingwell sits down with Juha Rossi and Johanna Reunanen to talk about leading an agile transformation inside one of the world’s most recognizable technology brands. In this candid interview, they share the story behind Nokia Software’s transformation, and what it’s like implementing and practicing SAFe in such a large and complex organization. They also describe the challenges of aligning 40+ ARTs and many solution trains, and how agile practices bring improvements in productivity, customer experience, and quality. Presented at the Global SAFe Summit, October, 2020 Back to: Customer Stories Explore more Customer Stories Next: NTT Data Customer Story Learn more about NTT Data
NTT DATA Customer Story – NTT DATA: Japanese Payment Services Leader Transforms Organizational Culture and Improves Business Agility with SAFe Share: NTNTT DATA brings the first Japanese customer story to the SAFe Summit audience. Headquartered in Tokyo and operating in more than 50 countries as a top 10 global IT services provider, NTT Data turned to SAFe to improve its ability to respond to market demands and stay ahead of a growing number of competitors. In his presentation, Product Manager Takenori Osada describes the difficulty of introducing Agile in Japan, how their culture transformed, and how they applied SAFe in their Payments Services Division and were able to see significant improvements in employee Net Promoter Scores, time-to-market, productivity, and quality. SAFe is essential for us to be able to compete in the payment market. This resulted in an investment cost advantage.” —Director (Business owner) Presented at the Global SAFe Summit, October, 2020. Back to: Customer Stories Explore more Customer Stories Next: Aegon Asset Management Customer Story Learn about Aegon Asset Management
Aegon Asset Management Aegon Asset Management Unites Executives and Global Teams to Deliver Faster and More Predictably Share: With roots going back 200 years, Aegon Group is one of the world’s leading providers of life insurance, pensions, and asset management. The global company operates in more than 20 countries with 26,000 employees and reports more than EUR 804 billion in revenue-generating investments. As part of Aegon Group, Aegon Asset Management (AAM) intends to retain its industry-leading position. AAM set some big goals, including digitalization and accelerating the pace of change. To achieve those objectives, and more, IT leaders realized that distributed teams in the UK, Netherlands, and the US needed to collaborate on a global level. AAM had begun bottom-up, informal efforts in Agile and DevOps, and yet, the teams still weren’t able to work together effectively. AAM turned to SAFe as a means to expand the company’s Agile efforts and keep teams synchronized across borders. They saw SAFe’s Portfolio level as a way to align enterprise strategy with Portfolio execution and were able to establish a single, global backlog reviewed and prioritized by C-suite stakeholders. AAM is a model for showcasing the importance of executive engagement, Lean Portfolio Management, consistent expectations, and how a successful transformation needs all levels of the organization. “We saw SAFe as providing a unifying structure to get our different units working together in the same way.”—Philip Johnson, Global Chief Change Officer, Aegon Asset Management Presented at the Global SAFe Summit, October 2020. Back to: Customer Stories Explore more Customer Stories Next: Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE Customer Story Learn more about
Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty SE Customer Story – Allianz: AGCS’ SAFe Journey To Become a Data Driven Enterprise Share: After multiple mergers, our data systems were disjointed. To add to this, the newest International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS17) is set to go into effect in January 2023, making data management crucial from a regulatory perspective. We implemented the latest version of SAPHANA, a database management system in partnership with Accenture. This brought our data together under a centralized solution while offering near real-time data processing and better reporting and analytics. SAFe provided the structure we needed to scale Agile in a complex SAP and non SAP landscape. It allowed us to organize around value and grow seamless integrated cross-functional teams aligned with the companyʼs long-term strategy. Our SAP DevSecOps automation pipeline helped to reach SAP Delivery Agility which paved the way to build the capabilities needed to reach SAP Business Agility. SAFe addressed the complexities and gave us the framework for building portfolios, roles, and jobs to achieve our goals for customer centricity, speed, and quality. DevSecOps is a mindset, an enterprise-wide culture and practice. We will showcase how Allianz applied the five core concepts of DevSecOps and Release on Demand across the five core concepts. Presented at the Global SAFe Summit, October, 2020. Back to: Customer Stories Explore more Customer Stories Next: TV Globo Customer Story Learn more about TV Globo