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.