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.
Your LACE sets the tone for your transformation. Therefore, selecting members of the LACE can be a daunting task. Hear from our experts with unique perspectives on what they have seen work best in various contexts. Our panelists will deliver thoughtful answers about how to staff your LACE.
Speakers
Eduardo Alvim
SPCT, Head of Product Strategy and Development (Gladwell Academy)
Prior to becoming SPCT, I’ve gained extensive working experience in the areas of software development, IT and team management. Also, implemented Agile ways of working in industries as diverse as aviation, healthcare, pharmaceutical, banking & insurance, media and IT. This has led me to an extended practical knowledge of the need for agile ways of working and firsthand examples of the benefits of implementing SAFe.
Christine Babowicz
SPCT Candidate, Assistant Vice President, Global Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (Metlife)
Agility evangelist, industry speaker and founding member of the MetLife Global Lean-Agile Center of Excellence; proving that a small yet determined group of change agents can seed and influence a pull-based global agile transformation. Skilled in product portfolio mapping, facilitation, implementing the lean-agile toolbox and developing an in-house coaching capability to sustain enterprise agility. Experience applying agility to Portfolios, Solutions, Programs and Teams across MetLife. Execution expertise also extends to organizational change management and leadership coaching. SPCT Candidate
Deema Dajani
SAFe Fellow, Product Manager (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Deema draws on a Startup background and an MBA from Kellogg. Deema helps established enterprises create the environment to shape disruption with business agility and Lean Portfolio Management (LPM). Started her Agile journey in the early 2000’s as a Product Manager, Director of Strategy, and pre-IPO turn around specialist. Deema transitioned to advisory where she led some of the largest transformations to Lean-Agile with SAFe in Financial Services and Insurance. Deema currently serves as a Scaled Agile Product Manager focused on LPM and Leadership. Co-founder of the Women in Agile, a non-profit organization focused on breaking barriers and inclusivity in the agile community.
Mike Foster
iSPCT Candidate, Agile Coach (Zurich Insurance Company Ltd.)
I help technical people be happy at work by delivering amazing results while having fun.
Discover SAFe® 6.0 – The Next Evolution with Dean Leffingwell
Here at Scaled Agile, we were thrilled to announce the launch of SAFe® 6.0 and SAFe Studio this month. These new updates will deepen SAFe’s impact, help you build resiliency and reshape the way you approach transformation. On 30 March, Dean Leffingwell is joining us for a deep dive into what these changes mean for you in the APAC region.
When:
March 30, 2023, 11:12 am – March 30, 2023, 11:25 am
The Scaled Agile APAC team is thrilled to host our Co-founder and Cheif Methodologist, Dean Leffingwell, to share his insights about SAFe 6.0. Learn directly from Dean about how these updates enable you to work differently and build the future.
11:30 am AEDT 6:00am IST 8:30am SGT 8:30am CST 9:30am JST
Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell is an entrepreneur and software development methodologist best known for creating SAFe®, the world’s most widely used framework for business agility.
His best-selling books, Agile Software Requirements, Scaling Software Agility, and SAFe® Distilled, form much of the basis of modern thinking on Lean-Agile practices and principles. Founder of several successful startups, including Requisite, Inc. (acquired by Rational), Mr. Leffingwell also served as Chief Methodologist to Rally Software, and prior to that, as Sr. Vice President at Rational Software (now part of IBM). He currently serves as Chief Methodologist to Scaled Agile, Inc., which he co-founded in 2011.
Attendees will recognize how continuous Exploration fuels innovation and helps you define a vision, strategy, and roadmap to tap into new markets. Find out how to accelerate the product lifecycle to get fast feedback and quickly deliver exceptional products and solutions that delight customers – all while aligning with your organization’s strategy, portfolio, evolving architecture, and solution intent.
Discover in this three-day SAFe® training the right mindset, skills, and tools you need to create successful products and solutions using Agile techniques. Learn how to use Design Thinking to create products and solutions that are:
Desirable – what customers want
Viable – profitable for you to build and sell
Feasible – something you can realistically deliver
Sustainable – something you can proactively manage to realize ROI
Speakers
Tamara Nation
SAFe Fellow, Director of Product Management (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Tamara Nation is results-driven servant leader with a proven track record of motivating high performing teams to deliver positive outcomes in complex, matrixed environments. Drive a consensus-based approach to gain broad alignment through engagement and participation in decision making. Thrive when facing a challenge with unwavering persistence to stick with and solve tough and complex problems to achieve organizational goals.
Markus Vogg
SPCT, Global Head of Business Agility Practice (Capgemini)
As Global Head of the Business Agility practice at Capgemini Invent, Markus has a strong passion for Agile Transformations. In recent years, he has focused on helping organizations introduce the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and is continuously working with (senior) stakeholders to achieve a sustainable Agile transformation based on a fundamental shift in mindset. As a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT), he has coached many different corporations across the globe, combining deep knowledge of SAFe with practical knowledge of Agile@Scale in general. He has trained a couple of hundred employees of many of the leading companies on what SAFe is and how it can be successfully applied. Furthermore, over the last years he has helped different companies in “becoming Agile” especially also at the Portfolio level, focusing on planning and budgeting cycles, to best enable Value Streams and their ART(s) to follow their new way-of-working.
Exclusive Roundtable for Finance & Insurance – Key takeaways for business & organization Agility
Let us inspire you to step up your game and to work smarter, with a focus on results. Join us on this exclusive roundtable where we match leaders in the field of banking and insurance.
When:
March 16, 2023, 1:30 pm – March 16, 2023, 6:30 pm ECT
Where:
The Office City, 29 Bd Prince Henri, 1724 Luxembourg, Luxemburg
Who:
Agile Coach, Consultant, Finance and Banking Professionals
Leading organizations are innovating their business by coming up with better and smarter services and products, accelerating their speed to market, cost saving, lowering risks and increasing their customer experience. The playing field is constantly evolving. Your customer continuously raises his needs. How do you respond?
What you will learn:
Lessons learned from client cases
Insights on how other organizations organize themselves by working Agile
Expert tips and tricks to get started with SAFe®
TargetProcess Demo, the Agile Portfolio Management Tool
Why SAFe ® and SAP®? Getting better results with experience from the field
In this panel dialogue, we will share our experience at SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) and other SAP S/4 business transformations leveraging SAFe principles and practices to deliver better results.
When:
March 8, 2023, 4:00 pm – March 8, 2023, 5:00 pm ECT
Where:
Zoom
Who:
Agile Coach, Consultant, Director, SAFe Program Consultant
Event Overview: In this panel dialogue, we will share our experience at Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and other SAP S/4 business transformations leveraging SAFe principles and practices to deliver better results. Showcase: SBB is harmonizing business processes across seven Portfolios with multiple value streams impacting 20.000 employees, building an Enterprise-wide state-of-the-art SAP S/4HANA. You will discover how to combine the SAFe Framework with an SAP delivery model to realize cross-portfolio initiatives.
We discuss the following topics:
• How do you manage SAP Cross-Portfolio Initiatives with SAFe – Organize around value and optimize for Flow for better results • How SAFe helps in achieving harmonization and standardization program objectives? • What is a State-of-the-Art SAP Delivery Model that accelerates Value Delivery and Organizational Agility? • What role do SAP Activate and Focused Build play in the State-of-the-Art SAP Delivery Model to realize program ambitions? • How do you ensure the integration of business concepts, processes, data, and systems, and how does SAFe help to achieve this? • How do you ensure simplicity, efficiency, and steering ability from a business/expert leadership/governance/program perspective – knowing that trade-offs will be necessary? • What patterns are helpful in the transition to a portfolio of portfolio SAFe Lean (Enterprise) Portfolio Management (tactical planning events and organizing around value with Value Nodes or Solution Areas)
In our interactive session, we highly welcome your participation in our discussion!
Speakers
Malte Kumlehn
Director and SAFe® Fellow – SAP Delivery Excellence (Project and Team Inc.)
Malte guides complex Ecosystems, People, Cloud, AI and Data powered digital transformations toward Business Agility. He pioneers Intelligent Operating Models for accelerated strategy execution with large solutions as globally the first of 30+ SAFe® Fellows, Executive Advisor & Advisory Board Members in this field. The SAFe® Fellow Program represents an elite class of experts who can help the world’s largest organizations accelerate digital transformation & achieve business agility. The SAFe® Fellow achievement is Scaled Agile’s most prestigious distinction, recognizing individuals who have exhibited the highest level of mastery and thought leadership in the practice and principles of SAFe. His track record includes founding, leading and growing Accenture’s first SAP Agile Delivery Excellence business. In his Business Owner role, he cared for people, revenue, cost, business development & delivery excellence while living Business Agility, applying Lean-Agile at Scale & SAFe daily.
Oliver Lauffer
Project and Program Manager (SAP)
Oliver Lauffer has been working for more than 20 Years at SAP. He has a long history of leading extensive international Programs and Projects with international Teams. Next to the standard project topics, his focus is on combining agile Methods and Frameworks like SAFe with implementing Standard Software like SAP and connected methodologies like SAP Activate. In addition to his project and program manager role, he has been a highly appreciated, trusted advisor and coach for large, global customer programs. In this role, his extensive experience in Organizational Change Management has been crucial for the success of these programs. Due to his result-oriented, structured working style, good communication skills and high capacity for teamwork, he managed various complex programs and rollouts on time, on budget and with high quality. In Parallel, he is responsible for the Swiss Project Manager Community from an SAP perspective.
Kaya Yumusaklar
Program Manager S/4 and Managing Director (Swiss Federal Railways)
Kaya Yumusaklar (47) has been leading SBB’s SAP S/4 Program since the beginning of 2022 and the overall SBB IT “Asset & Enterprise” practice since the beginning of 2023. In this role, he is the responsible IT Executive for delivering the ongoing SAP transition to S/4 and for developing and operating the overall application portfolio for rail infrastructure and rolling stock maintenance, real estate facility management, logistics, procurement and finance. Before that, he worked as a Finance Director at SBB and was responsible for strategic, companywide programs for cost management, transformation and carve-out initiatives. Kaya grew up in Konstanz in south of Germany. He later moved to Berlin and graduated from the TU Berlin in engineering and management. Later, before he joined SBB in 2015, he gained a broad experience in various industries as a Management Consultant based in Zürich and Berlin in strategy and organizational development projects and large transformations.
This one-day event, hosted by Scaled Agile at the Ronald Reagan Building, will explore the challenges agencies face in implementing Agile acquisitions within the unique constraints of the US Government.
When:
April 11, 2023, 9:00 am – April 11, 2023, 5:00 pm EST
Where:
Ronald Reagan Building – 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004
Who:
Agile Coach, Consultant, Director, SAFe Program Consultant
This year’s conference focuses on developing Agile Leadership skills for an Agile (SAFe) transformation. The conference will provide insight and ideas around common United States Government staff concerns such as Agile contracting, measuring an Agile acquisition, and strategies to build an agile workforce.
Prior to the conference, there will be a one-day workshop on April 10th. You can attend one or both days based on the pass you purchase. Group discounts are available for teams with five or more attendees.
Speakers
Check back as we confirm additional speakers.
Dr. Steve Mayner
SAFe Fellow and Principal Consultant (Scaled Agile Inc.)
Expert thought leader, speaker, coach, consultant, and trainer in the principles and practices of agility at an enterprise level. Extensive experience building positive relationships with C-Level executives and management teams, translating business goals and objectives into initiatives that provide IT capabilities in support of organizational investment themes. Strong background in both Federal and commercial organizations.
Events > Webinars > Business Agility in Banking: How Easy Can It Be?
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
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.
