Government Innovation Conversations | Large Cyber-Physical Systems
How does SAFe® specifically acknowledge the work nuances within the government? Join us as we launch the “Government Innovation Conversations” webinar series to discuss government-specific pain points and solutions. The first topic is: “Large Cyber-Physical Systems”.
When:
October 23, 2023, 10:00 am – October 23, 2023, 11:00 am EST
The first topic in this government webinar series is: “Large Cyber-Physical Systems”. You will leave this webinar with answers to questions like:
Why does SAFe work for large systems in government?
How do I get started with SAFe?
What are key things I need to know about SAFe?
This event is in an “ask-me-anything” format. The panelists will start with a few predetermined questions and then answer questions from the attendees live.
Join the conversation and bring your challenges for discussion.
Speakers
Cynthia Ferreira
Federal Strategic Advisor (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
With her expertise in adapting emerging technologies to drive mission-focused programs, Cynthia advises C-suite executives, senior leaders, and architects on uncovering transformation opportunities and executing transformation roadmaps. Her experience in leading modernization efforts across multiple portfolios of work and implementing systems of governance, measures, metrics, and toolsets has proven successful.
Harry Koehnemann
SAFe Fellow & Principal Contributor (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Harry Koehnemann is a Methodologist and SAFe Fellow at Scaled Agile Inc., where he helps organizations build and deliver solutions faster, more predictably, and with high quality with SAFe. He has spent the past two decades working with large system builders in aerospace, defense, automotive, and other industries to apply Lean-Agile principles to their engineering practices, including requirements management, quality management, and compliance.
Robin Yeman
SAFe Fellow, Carnegie Mellon Executive, & Space Domain Lead (Carnegie Mellon SEI)
Expertise spanning over twenty-five years in software engineering with focus on Digital Engineering, DevSecOps, and Agile building large complex solutions across multiple domains from submarines to satellites. She advocates for continuous learning with multiple certifications including SAFe Fellow, SPCT, CEC, PMP, PMI-ACP, and CSEP.
Dr. Suzette Johnson
SAFe Fellow, Northrop Grumman Fellow, Lean-Agile Northrop Grumman Space Systems (Northrop Grumman)
Dr. Suzette Johnson serves Northrop Grumman’s Space Systems sector as a Northrop Grumman Fellow, Lean-Agile, and Technical Fellow Emeritus. Suzette works across the organization and in concert with the divisions and business units to support programs and functions in the adoption and implementation of Lean-Agile principles, processes, and digital capabilities.
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.
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.
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.
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:
June 28, 2023, 1:00 pm – June 29, 2023, 5:00 pm ECT
Where:
Remote
Who:
Agile Coach, Program or Project Manager, Release Train Engineer, SAFe Practice Consultant
This workshop takes place over two days (June 28 and 29) in four-hour sessions from 1-5 pm (CEST).
We designed this eight-hour workshop over two days 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
Rune Christensen
SPCT, Strategic Advisor (Scaled Agile, Inc.)
Rune has more than 20 years of experience working with software and cyber physical solutions within enterprise and public safety communication, insurance, logistics, and energy. He has supported several Enterprises in transforming their ways of working using lean-agile practices and helped them achieve greater business outcomes.
Harry Koehnemann
SAFe Fellow, Methodologist (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.
