Struggling with PI Planning? Join us for a thoughtful exploration of strategies that enhance real-time collaboration and minimize cognitive load in PI Planning.
This session is designed to be interactive and focused on providing value to participants, with an emphasis on learning and growth. Whether you’re new to the field or an experienced RTE, we invite you to join us in this informative webinar.
Highlights include:
Real-Time Synchronization: Explore how bi-directional sync with ALM tools can eliminate delays, fostering efficient communication and information sharing.
Effortless Planning to Execution: An exploration of methodologies that ensure a smooth transition from planning stages to actionable execution, keeping aligned with overall objectives.
Collaboration Beyond Boundaries: Insights into tools and practices that enable effective collaboration, regardless of location.
Smart Visualization: Get insights into optimal planning through visual aids that guide, rather than dictate, the planning process.
With a focus on customer success and a user-first approach, I leverage my expertise in product/market strategy and execution to deliver tangible results that delight end-users and propel the business forward. Whether it’s identifying pain points, uncovering unmet needs, or discover hidden opportunities, I thrive on the challenge of creating innovative and impactful products that customers love.
Rosana Johnson
SPCT Candidate / SAFe Strategic Advisor
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.
The Implementing SAFe® Exemplar course, offered by Scaled Agile, Inc., stands out as a distinctive learning experience. It is taught by the world’s most seasoned SAFe® Fellows and members of the Scaled Agile Framework team. This is your golden chance to learn directly from the architects of the framework, those at the cutting edge of pressing business challenges. Bring your toughest questions and get insights straight from the experts. You won’t want to miss this unparalleled opportunity with the Implementing SAFe® Exemplar.
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What makes this an Exemplar?
Taught by SAFe Framework team members and SAFe Fellows
Testbed for new IP
SPCT Immersion week
Event Overview
Ready to lead a Lean-Agile transformation?
Need a deeper understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework?
Looking to teach SAFe courses yourself?
Implementing SAFe® offers attendees the broadest level of insight into each layer of a SAFe implementation. This course is for those who want to be a leader in a Lean-Agile transformation. This course and resulting certification will help you understand the roles of each person in SAFe organization and then plan and guide a SAFe transformation.
You’ll learn how to identify value streams, launch agile release trains, optimize flow, and apply OKRs to Strategic Themes that define the targeted outcomes for the SAFe transformation. You’ll also practice the principles of Agile product management and product delivery. If you’re looking for a comprehensive and practical understanding of how to help an organization achieve business agility effectively, Implementing SAFe® is the right course for you.
Instructors
Dean Leffingwell Co-Founder and Chief Methodologist (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Recognized as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices, Dean Leffingwell is an author, entrepreneur, and software and systems 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.
Andrew Sales Chief Methodologist and SAFe Fellow (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Andrew Sales is an experienced Agile Consultant and previously led the Agile Services Practice across EMEA for CA Technologies (formerly Rally). Drawing on his diverse range of skills and experiences from project management, software development, product management and sales, Andrew has worked with many organizations to help them successfully establish better ways of working. He is passionate about continuous improvement and provides coaching to teams and leaders, supporting them in achieving improved outcomes for their business and their customers.
Rebecca Davis SAFe Methodologist and SAFe Fellow (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Rebecca Davis has been leading Agile teams, trains, and leaders for over 15 years within startups, mid-size, and Fortune 100 enterprises. Davis brings her experience as a former Release Train Engineer, Scrum Master, Portfolio Lead, Quality Director, and LACE Director into her current activities. Rebecca is a SAFe Fellow, Methodologist, and SPCT on the Scaled Agile Framework Team who highlights joy and energy within her work. Most recently, Rebecca led the Agile Transformation as Director of Scaled Agile Practices and Leader of the Digital LACE within the Fortune 4 and Global 7, where over 4 years, she expanded Scaled Agile Practices from 300 to over 10k working within a Scaled Agile model across the organization, including IT, Marketing, Digital experiences, and Retail business
Business agility requires close synchronization across the organization. In this webinar, learn how value stream management (VSM) aligns people and teams across functions to shared principles, practices, and tools that enable their businesses to sense and respond quickly to changing market conditions.
When:
July 18, 2023, 9:00 am – July 18, 2023, 10:00 am MST
Derek leads the Enterprise Agility Solutions Engineering Guild at Atlassian, where they help the largest and most complex organizations reach better outcomes. Prior to Atlassian, Derek helped transform how people work at companies such as Walmart, GEICO, and Capital One and federal agencies like National Archives and National Institutes of Health. He has authored 2 books and over 600 articles.
Marc Rix
SAFe® Fellow (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Marc helps large enterprises leverage the game-changing power of Lean, Agile, and DevOps at scale. He has been practicing Agile for over 20 years and is an internationally recognized thought leader, consultant, trainer, adviser, and speaker. Marc is a SAFe Fellow and member of the Framework team at Scaled Agile.
Applying OKRs in SAFe® to Create Clear Goals and Measure Outcomes
Join Amit Kaulagekar and Rohini Sharma, Industry Lead monday.com online session to help you deconstruct the concepts and provide practical application to bring it from concept to execution.
Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a collaborative framework for establishing clear goals and measurable outcomes. When used within SAFe, OKRs can help to support the Core Values of transparency and alignment between the Enterprise and Portfolio strategy and the work of the Agile Release Trains and Agile Teams to deliver on this strategy. Additionally, OKRs can be applied to measure organizational improvement activities, including the desired outcomes for the SAFe transformation. Join Amit Kaulagekar and Rohini Sharma, Industry Lead monday.com online session to help you deconstruct the concepts and provide practical application to bring it from concept to execution.
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.
Agilists have been talking about business and technology alignment since the beginning of the Agile movement. Many experience challenges with integrating POs and PMs from the business onto the delivery ARTs, especially if the ARTs are in technology organizations. What’s the career incentive and path? What skills are needed? And how to create high-performing teams including the business members. Join this expert panel of Mark Saymen and Vikas Kapila to discuss why this is important and tips to help overcome these challenges.
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Speakers
Deema Dajani
SAFe® Fellow, Product Director (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
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.
Vikas Kapila
CEO (Enterprise Agility Consulting)
Vikas is a business transformation practitioner with a passion for applying Lean-Agile principles, behaviors and practices to enable delivery of highest business value with built-in quality at the earliest in a predictably and sustainable cycle. He excels at quickly delivering business value, simplifying the seemingly complex, and delighting customers. He is able to achieve these results by consistently building radically prolific, high performing teams by believing to look listen & learn before initiating collaboration, coaching, training and facilitation.
Mark Saymen
Title (Agile Agilist)
A career story from Developer to Partner has taken me around the world implementing digital transformation, training, and implementing SAFe. Mark thrives with ambiguity and challenges. Mark welcomes tough questions and complex challenges leveraging the power of Digital to help organizations create a culture of innovation and increase team happiness, fulfillment, and engagement. Some of my tools are Resilience Engineering, DevOps, Coaching, Agile at Scale, Training, and Mindset.
Laurens is an Agile Trainer & Management Consultant and a mentor to leaders creating resilient organizations at any scale. He has a strong background in IT with experience in almost every role. Laurens takes great pride in his work, and it shows in the recommendations he has received over the years. As a Professional Scrum Trainer and SAFe Practice Consultant, he helps to improve the profession of software delivery as well as marketing, human resources, and finance. Laurens brings his experience in enterprise IT since 1999 and on Scrum Teams since 2006 to his teaching, is a driving force in the Agile community, and a sought-after speaker at conferences and events.
Audrey Boydston
SAFe Fellow and SPCT (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Audrey Boydston is a SAFe Fellow and Strategic Advisor at Scaled Agile and an experienced SPCT, Leadership Coach, and Master Facilitator. Her work focuses on continuous learning, community building, strategy development, and helping leaders create exceptional experiences for their employees and customers. Audrey spent her early career working in leadership roles at financial institutions, including GE Capital, Citigroup, Discover, and Capital One. While at Capital One she transitioned from strategy and product management into Agile coaching, where she successfully rebooted her business unit’s Agile transformation through coaching, re-training, and establishing mentoring programs. At Scaled Agile she co-created a program to help leaders understand their critical role in leading enterprise Lean-Agile transformations. She also co-created a virtual edition of the Training from the BACK of the Room! course with Sharon Bowman and 10 other Certified Trainers around the world.
This online live talk, scheduled for the beginning of May, is dedicated to answering your questions and facilitating a meaningful dialogue on applying agility to address the rapid changes in the sector.
Speakers
Harry Koehnemann
SAFe Fellow and Principal Consultant (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Harry Koehnemann is a SAFe Fellow and Principal Consultant at Scaled Agile, Inc., where he helps organizations build and deliver solutions faster, more predictably, and with high quality. He has spent the past two decades consulting with aerospace, defense, automotive, and other organizations to adopt better engineering practices, including Lean, Agile, MBSE, requirements management, quality management, and the related activities necessary to support compliance. Harry is a regular presenter on Lean-Agile topics and engineering practices at Agile, Systems Engineering, and government conferences.
Jeff Shupack
SAFe Fellow, President of Advisory Practice (Project & Team)
Jeff Shupack helps organizations deliver some of the world’s most complex virtual and physical products at scale. As a SAFe Fellow & SPCT, he is a sought-after transformation expert focusing on digital enterprise, cyber-physical delivery, and change leadership. Jeff is President of Advisory Practice at Project & Team, specializing in digital transformations within highly regulated and complex environments for the Fortune 100 and government agencies.
Markus Vogg
Global Head of the Business Agility practice (Capgemini Invent)
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 SPCT, he has coached many different corporations across the globe, combining deep knowledge of SAFe with practical knowledge of Agile@Scale in general.
At this event, you will have the opportunity to learn from seasoned experts from Scaled Agile Inc., Project & Team Inc., and Capgemini. In addition, we will hear success stories from companies that faced similar challenges and subsequently overcame them.
SAFe Fellow & Principal Contributor (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Harry Koehnemann is a Methodologist and SAFe Fellow at Scaled Agile Inc., where he helps organizations deliver solutions faster, more predictably, and with high quality. He has spent the past two decades working with large system builders in aerospace, defense, automotive, and other industries, helping them apply Lean, Agile, and MBSE to their engineering practices.
Jeff Shupack
President of Advisory Practice. SAFe Fellow & SPCT (Project & Team)
Jeff Shupack helps organizations deliver some of the world’s most complex virtual and physical products at scale. As a SAFe Fellow & SPCT, he is a sought-after transformation expert focusing on digital enterprise, cyber-physical delivery, and change leadership. Jeff is President of Advisory Practice at Project & Team, specializing in digital transformations within highly regulated and complex environments for the Fortune 100 and government agencies.
Sebastian Tschödrich
Global Head of Automotive & Chief Sales Officer Germany Capgemini Invent (Capgemini)
Sebastian Tschödrich, Vice President Automotive at Capgemini Invent, has a 12 year working experience in automotive consulting, among others in Europe and China. He is responsible for Capgemini’s global automotive consulting business in the areas of sales, new mobility, connected car, digital business and sustainability as well as the global consulting business for a major automotive client.
Markus Vogg
Global Head of Business Agility (SAFe® SPCT) Capgemini Invent (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.
Robin Yeman
Strategic Advisory Board Member and Director of Cyber-Physical Advisory Practice. SAFe Fellow & SPCT (Project & Team)
Robin Yeman brings over 25 years of experience and proven ability to identify and evaluate market needs, build opportunities, and provide solutions leveraging best practices from Lean, Agile, and DevSecOps. Before joining Project & Team, Yeman spent almost three decades at Lockheed Martin advising entire product lifecycles and driving multi-billion dollar revenues by focusing on speed and agility.
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