Topic: Business Agility

Year in Review for Coaches and SPCs

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Year in Review for Coaches and SPCs

See features released specifically for coaches and SPCs in 2022 to help you in 2023.

When:

December 6, 2022, 10:00 am – December 6, 2022, 11:00 am MST

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Agile Coach, Consultant, SAFe Program Consultant

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Event Overview

This interactive session walks through updates with the Scaled Agile Product team to cover the following releases:

Ready to Train
5.1.1 Implementing
5.1 Classes
Role-Based Home Page
Collaborate Improvements
Value Stream Mapping workshop

Measure What Matters for Business Agility

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Measure What Matters for Business Agility

Measurement becomes a critical enabler of continuous business performance improvement. What will you measure in 2023?

When:

December 1, 2022, 9:00 am – December 1, 2022, 10:00 am MST

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Agile Coach, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master

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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 what we do with the data we receive. Measurement becomes a critical enabler of continuous business performance improvement. Our new approach to metrics includes three domains: Outcomes, Flow, and Competency. This session will provide an overview of this comprehensive measurement model and explore how it can be applied across Teams, ARTs, and Portfolios.

In this session you will learn how to:
* Define Outcome, Flow, and Competency metrics for measuring teams, ARTs, Solution Trains, and entire SAFe Portfolios
* Use the insights generated to support better decision-making and help to identify opportunities for improvement
* Recognize common success patterns for effective measurement, along with pitfalls to be aware of

Speakers

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Andrew Sales

Principal Consultant, SAFe® Fellow & Framework PM (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. As a member of the Framework team, he is focused on the Team and Technical Agility and Organizational Agility competencies. Currently, his postgraduate research includes exploring how organizational structure impacts the performance of the enterprise.

Scaling Your LACE Practices

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Scaling Your LACE Practices

Your engagement in our LACE Transformation in Practice series uncovered insights about how LACEs operate in real organizations

When:

November 8, 2022, 10:00 am – November 8, 2022, 11:00 am

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Agile Coach, Director, Release Train Engineer

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Event Overview

Deema Dajani, Product Manager and SPCT at Scaled Agile Inc. will share synthesized updates applicable to your current operations. Carol McEwan and Anaël Pichon from iObeya will join Deema to share ideas on how to scale and improve your LACE practices as your organization matures. During this webinar, you will learn the following:

– How LACE formation evolves as a SAFe organization matures
– The top concerns every LACE experiences
– What LACEs budget for
– How to improve awareness of your LACE progress and impact

Speakers

Deema Dajani

Deema Dajani

Product Manager, SPCT (Scaled Agile Inc.)

Deema draws on a Startup background and an MBA from Kellogg. She 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.

Carol McEwan

Agile Program Director (iObeya)

Carol McEwan currently serves as Agile Program Director at iObeya. She has more than 10 years Agile experience and is passionate about creating spaces for people to collaborate and solve complex problems. Previously, Carol has held senior leadership positions at Scaled Agile, Scrum@Scale, and Scrum Alliance.

Anaël Pichon

Manager – US Customer Success Operation (iObeya)

Anaël Pichon currently manages iObeya’s Client Success operations in the USA. She combines her experience as a Project Manager and her passion for Agile as a certified Professional Scrum Product Owner and SAFe SPC to help iObeya users get the best out of the platform.

Becoming the Catalyst: Change Management that Drives Transformation to the Next Level

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Becoming the Catalyst: Change Management that Drives Transformation to the Next Level

Hosted by: Apptio

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

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Agile Coach, Agile Leaders, LACE Leader, Transformational Leader

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Event Overview

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

Sr. Agile Transformation Consultant, SPCT Candidate (Agile Rising)

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.

Business Agility Takes Off at Southwest Airlines

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. 

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

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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’ lifestyles through digitalization, connectivity, and electromobility. This requires total business agility throughout the enterprise, a new mindset, and a new way of working together closely. It also requires vehicle engineering and software teams to collaborate closely and 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 with the help of SAFe. 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 Digital
  • Dr. Oliver Seifert, Vice President R&D Electric/Electronics /Porsche AG
  • Interviewer: Michael Clarkin, Chief Marketing Officer, Scaled Agile, Inc.SHOW LESS

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TV Globo – Adopting SAFe for Enterprise Agility Transformation

How Enterprise Agility Is Transforming the Largest Media Company in Latin America

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TV Globo is Brazil’s largest TV network serving 100 million viewers in 130 countries.

Like many other media companies, Globo needed to accelerate its digital transformation journey. Their waterfall project approach did not support the speed that was needed to meet this challenge. They needed an Agile approach! But how do you implement Agile in a highly complex environment with hundreds of legacy solutions and a silo-based culture?

Both culture and technology had to be transformed. After some small Agile initiatives, TV Globo decided to adopt SAFe. They started bottom-up. The IT Director sponsored their first implementation of SAFe in two main business areas: Commercial and Content Production. The results after the first year of SAFe implementation were impressive. Leaving behind their “who is right” or “who is guilty” approach, business and technology areas were able to work more closely with a value-driven approach. The empowerment and engagement that resulted from aligning business and tech around the same purpose and company priorities resulted in significant improvements:

  • 20% cost reduction
  • 24% improvement in employee engagement
  • 86% improvement in customer satisfaction

Inspired by these early results, Globo expanded its practice of SAFe. New Value Streams were implemented in other areas, this time sponsored by the C-level, and Globo is designing its roadmap to expand the implementation throughout the company. It has been an exciting, challenging, and rewarding journey so far!

Presented at the 2021 Global SAFe Summit, October 2021 by:

  • Luciana Povoa, Head of Content Production Solutions /Globo

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FedEx – Response to COVID-19 using SAFe and Business Agility – An Interview with CIO Rob Carter

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.

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Nokia Software – Improving Predictability and Team Collaboration Using SAFe

Customer Interview: SAFe Improves Predictability and Team Collaboration at Nokia Software

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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 SAFe transformation, and what it’s like implementing and practicing SAFe in such a large and complex organization. They also describe the agility 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

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NTT DATA – Adopting SAFe for Business Agility Improvement

Customer Story – NTT DATA: Japanese Payment Services Leader Transforms Organizational Culture and Improves Business Agility with SAFe

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NTT 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.

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