Enterprise Strategy Formulation and Lean Portfolio Management
In this deep-dive episode of the SAFe Business Agility podcast, Melissa Reeve, SPC and Dean Leffingwell, chief methodologist for the Scaled Agile Framework explore enterprise strategy formulation as it relates to lean portfolio management (LPM) and SAFe 5.0, as well as how organizational agility gives companies flexibility to respond to unexpected global events like COVID-19.
Melissa Reeve is the Vice President of Marketing at Scaled Agile, Inc. In this role, Melissa guides the marketing team, helping people better understand Scaled Agile, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and its mission.
Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell is an author, entrepreneur, and software development methodologist.
His two best-selling books, Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise, and Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises, form much of the basis of modern thinking on Lean-Agile practices and principles. Founder of several successful startups, including Requisite, Inc., makers of RequisitePro (acquired by Rational), Mr. Leffingwell also served as Chief Methodologist to Rally Software, and prior to that, as a 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.
In this segment, we’ll chat about the identity crisis of the PMO mentioned in a Forbes article by Peter Kestenholz who’s on the Forbes Technology Council. Full article
We’ll also discuss how to start shifting away from detailed tracking at the project level toward new ways of measuring progress.
SAFe in the Trenches
Listen as Dean Leffingwell shares a story that a student in a recent Implementing SAFe® class shared around the concept of a value management office.
Audio CoP
The Audio Community of Practice section of the show is where we answer YOUR most frequently asked and submitted questions. If you have a question for us to answer on air, please send it to podcast@scaledagile.com
The questions we answer in this episode is:
Our company is using SAFe at both the team and the portfolio level, however, we are having trouble building an environment where strategy feeds goals and objectives and teams help feed strategy. What guidance can you provide?
Hosted by: Melissa Reeve
Melissa Reeve is the Vice President of Marketing at Scaled Agile, Inc. In this role, Melissa guides the marketing team, helping people better understand Scaled Agile, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and its mission.
Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell is an author, entrepreneur, and software development methodologist.
His two best-selling books, Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise, and Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises, form much of the basis of modern thinking on Lean-Agile practices and principles. Founder of several successful startups, including Requisite, Inc., makers of RequisitePro (acquired by Rational), Mr. Leffingwell also served as Chief Methodologist to Rally Software, and prior to that, as a 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.
In this podcast episode learn about the benefits of using participatory budgeting in the public sector, and get tips for adopting participatory budgeting as part of your SAFe practices.
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In this segment, we will chat about the case for using participatory budgeting in the public sector. Full article
SAFe in the Trenches
Listen as Luke Hohmann shares a real-world example of how an organization that used participatory budgeting realized better outcomes than if it had gone the traditional route.
The Audio Community of Practice section of the show is where we answer YOUR most frequently asked and submitted questions. If you have a question for us to answer on air, please send it to podcast@scaledagile.com
The two questions we answer in this episode are:
Can organizations use participatory budgeting even if they haven’t yet organized around value streams or adopted other Lean-budgeting techniques?
What are the pitfalls of participatory budgeting, and what antipatterns do organizations need to know about when initiating it in their organization?
Hosted by: Melissa Reeve
Melissa Reeve is the Vice President of Marketing at Scaled Agile, Inc. In this role, Melissa guides the marketing team, helping people better understand Scaled Agile, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and its mission.
Luke Hohmann is a Principal Consultant and member of the Framework team at Scaled Agile, and the inventor of Innovation Games®. A former Board member of the Agile Alliance and the author of four books with long titles, Luke’s playfully diverse background of life experiences has uniquely prepared him to design and produce people-powered tools that increase Agility.
Luke graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.E. in computer engineering and an M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan. In addition to data structures and artificial intelligence, he studied cognitive psychology and organizational behavior. In his spare time, Luke likes spending time with his four kids, barbecuing for friends, and his wife’s cooking. He also enjoys long runs in the Santa Cruz mountains to burn off his wife’s cooking and work on his Dreamlog.
In this podcast episode Agile Coach and Trainer, Joe Vallone describes the meaning behind Lean Portfolio Management (LPM), why there is no Portfolio Engineer role in Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and how LPM is facilitated.
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When launching Lean Portfolios, one of the first questions is where is the Portfolio Manager and is it like traditional PMO roles? LPM and the facilitation is critical to holding the LPM activities and members together On their Lean Portfolio SAFe Journey. Many organizations look for titles within the SAFe “troikas” at each level, yet within the portfolio level it is not on “The Big Picture”, and we’ve resisted it as a single, defined role. Why? Come explore the meaning behind why there is no “Portfolio Engineer” role in Lean Portfolio Management and how LPM is facilitated.
Hosted by: Joe Vallone
Joe Vallone is an experienced Agile Coach and Trainer and has been involved in the Lean and Agile communities since 2002. Mr. Vallone has helped coach several large-scale Agile transitions at Zynga, Apple, Microsoft, VCE, Nokia, AT&T, and American Airlines. Prior to founding Agile Business Connect, Joe Vallone served as an Agile Coach at Ciber, CTO/CIO of We The People, and the VP of Engineering for Telogical Systems.
In this podcast episode SAFe Creator and Chief Methodologist, Dean Leffingwell, reflects on his keynote and a live survey conducted at the 2019 European SAFe Summit revealing the Age of Software and what that means for businesses looking to transform.
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SAFe Creator and Chief Methodologist, Dean Leffingwell, reflects on his keynote and a live survey conducted at the 2019 European SAFe Summit. Highlights include:
Welcome to the Age of Software! Dean reflects on his keynote at the 2019 European SAFe Summit, which discusses how digital disruption is dead and we are now in the Age of Software – and what that means for businesses looking to transform. To access Dean’s keynote, visitscaledagile.com/keynote
In a SAFe Summit first, we conducted a live, primary research assessment where we invited attendees to take a survey to determine how close their organizations are to achieving true business – not technical – agility. Dean discusses why he created the survey and what the results show us.
Melissa Reeve is the Vice President of Marketing at Scaled Agile, Inc. In this role, Melissa guides the marketing team, helping people better understand Scaled Agile, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and its mission.
Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell is an author, entrepreneur, and software development methodologist.
His two best-selling books, Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise, and Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises, form much of the basis of modern thinking on Lean-Agile practices and principles. Founder of several successful startups, including Requisite, Inc., makers of RequisitePro (acquired by Rational), Mr. Leffingwell also served as Chief Methodologist to Rally Software, and prior to that, as a 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.
