The Power of 1%

The Power of 1%: How Small Improvements Drive Big Business Outcomes Webinar

Join us for this insightful webinar to explore the power of a 1% improvement and how these incremental gains can significantly enhance your business performance over time.

When:

October 22, 2024, 11:00 am – October 22, 2024, 11:30 am MST

Where:

Remote – Zoom

Who:

Business Analyst, Director, Product Owner

Event Overview

Whether you’re looking to increase efficiency, improve customer satisfaction, or boost revenue, small changes can compound into major shifts in outcomes.

In this session, we’ll cover:

  • How the principle of marginal gains can be applied to business – Real-life examples of businesses that saw significant results with small changes
  • Strategies to identify and implement 1% improvements in key areas
  • Tools and techniques for measuring and tracking these improvements Discover how focusing on just a 1% improvement today can transform your business tomorrow!

Who Should Attend?: This webinar is ideal for business leaders, managers, and anyone responsible for driving growth and efficiency within their organization.

Speakers

Jim Fowler

Strategic Advisor

Ethics-Driven AI: How Scaled Agile’s Approach Balances AI’s Advantages with Social Responsibility

Ethics-Driven AI: How Scaled Agile’s Approach Balances AI’s Advantages with Social Responsibility

Join us for an insightful webinar on “Ethics Meets Agility: Scaled Agile’s Approach to Achieving Responsible AI” where we will delve into the essential principles and best practices for developing and deploying AI responsibly.

When:

August 6, 2024, 9:00 am – August 6, 2024, 10:00 am MST

Where:

Online via Zoom

Who:

Agile Coach, Business Analyst, Director, Program or Project Manager, SAFe Program Consultant

Event Overview

This session will address the dual challenges of Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) and Fear of Messing Up (FOMU), offering strategies to harness AI’s potential while mitigating risks. A significant focus will be on how the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) can help organizations achieve these goals and realize the benefits of AI in a responsible manner. By leveraging the same patterns, roles, and practices that enable business agility, SAFe provides a structured approach to integrate responsible AI practices into your enterprise transformation efforts.

Speakers

Dr. Steve Mayner

Scaled Agile

Dr. Stephen Mayner is passionate about coaching businesses on digital age leadership, organizational change, strategy, continuous learning culture, artificial intelligence, Agile contracts, and SAFe® practice in government. His 35-year career in business includes roles as vice president in multiple Fortune 500 companies and chief technology officer for a health IT startup.

Doug Less

Icon Agility

Doug is an energetic and relentless Agile Transformation Coach passionate about helping organizations navigate their journey to agility. He has over 20 years of multidisciplinary consulting service experience, with the last decade aimed at driving the adoption of Agile values, principles, and practices to help people go beyond DOING Agile to BEING Agile.

LPM in Practice: Lean Budgeting Requisites

LPM in Practice: Lean Budgeting Requisites

In the next webinar in our LPM in Practice series, Jim Fowler SPCT and Strategic Advisor at Scaled Agile, addresses your common question: What about budgeting?

When:

June 13, 2024, 11:00 am – June 13, 2024, 12:00 pm EST

Where:

Zoom Live Session

Who:

Agile Coach, Agile Professionals, Business Analyst, Director, Product Manager, Product Owner

Event Overview

This session will look at the origins of the annual budgeting process, the difficulties we face today, and what we can do differently. It is designed to give you the context and talking points to advance into lean budgeting in your organization.

Speakers

Jim Fowler

SAFe Strategic Advisor (WA)

Improving Portfolio Outcomes with Real Options

Improving Portfolio Outcomes with Real Options

Real options promote flexibility in decision-making and enable organizations to pivot, change course, or seize new opportunities as circumstances evolve.

When:

May 21, 2024, 12:00 pm – May 21, 2024, 1:00 pm MST

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Consultant, Director, LACE Member, Program or Project Manager, SAFe Program Consultant, Transformation Leader

Event Overview

In this one hour session, you’ll receive an overview of: 

• Similar to Options contracts: The right but not the obligation to purchase or sell (i.e. Gets and Puts, respectively).

• Financial Framework: a financial decision-making framework based on ROI and probabilities

• Strategic Flexibility: enabling organizations to reduce risk, better use of capital, and avoid sunk costs. 

Don’t miss it!

Speakers

Joe Vallone

Principal Consultant, SPCT/SAFe Fellow at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Claus Hirzmann, Dipl.-Ing., MBA

Co-founder at Strategic-Finance SAS

Event Sponsors

SPC Welcome Webinar

SPC Welcome Webinar

Our next SPC Welcome Webinar is exclusively for new SPCs.

When:

December 5, 2024, 10:00 am – December 5, 2024, 11:00 am MST

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Consultant, Director, Program or Project Manager, Release Train Engineer, SAFe Program Consultant

Event Overview

We will review the many tools and resources available to ensure your success as a SAFe® trainer and coach.

– Ready to Train online learning
– Course enablement + validation
– Purchasing licenses
– Downloading courseware
– Creating courses
– Virtual classroom (optional, for remote setting)
– Uploading roster
– FAQs
– Other valuable resources

Speakers

Mike Alber

Director, Community Engagement at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Garren Watkins

Product Manager at Scaled Agile, Inc.

SPC Welcome Webinar

SPC Welcome Webinar

Our next SPC Welcome Webinar is exclusively for new SPCs.

When:

September 12, 2024, 10:00 am – September 12, 2024, 11:00 am MST

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Consultant, Director, Program or Project Manager, Release Train Engineer, SAFe Program Consultant

Event Overview

We will review the many tools and resources available to ensure your success as a SAFe® trainer and coach.

– Ready to Train online learning
– Course enablement + validation
– Purchasing licenses
– Downloading courseware
– Creating courses
– Virtual classroom (optional, for remote setting)
– Uploading roster
– FAQs
– Other valuable resources

Speakers

Mike Alber

Director, Community Engagement at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Garren Watkins

Product Manager at Scaled Agile, Inc.

SPC Welcome Webinar

SPC Welcome Webinar

Our next SPC Welcome Webinar is exclusively for new SPCs.

When:

June 12, 2024, 10:00 am – June 12, 2024, 11:00 am MST

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Consultant, Director, Program or Project Manager, Release Train Engineer, SAFe Program Consultant

Event Overview

We will review the many tools and resources available to ensure your success as a SAFe® trainer and coach.

– Ready to Train online learning
– Course enablement + validation
– Purchasing licenses
– Downloading courseware
– Creating courses
– Virtual classroom (optional, for remote setting)
– Uploading roster
– FAQs
– Other valuable resources

Speakers

Mike Alber

Director, Community Engagement at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Garren Watkins

Product Manager at Scaled Agile, Inc.

SPC Welcome Webinar

SPC Welcome Webinar

Our next SPC Welcome Webinar is exclusively for new SPCs.

When:

March 6, 2024, 10:00 am – March 6, 2024, 11:00 am MST

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Consultant, Director, Program or Project Manager, Release Train Engineer, SAFe Program Consultant

Event Overview

We will review the many tools and resources available to ensure your success as a SAFe® trainer and coach.

– Ready to Train online learning
– Course enablement + validation
– Purchasing licenses
– Downloading courseware
– Creating courses
– Virtual classroom (optional, for remote setting)
– Uploading roster
– FAQs
– Other valuable resources

Speakers

Mike Alber

Director, Community Engagement at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Garren Watkins

Product Manager at Scaled Agile, Inc.

SPC Welcome Webinar

SPC Welcome Webinar

Our next SPC Welcome Webinar is exclusively for new SPCs.

When:

December 13, 2023, 10:00 am – December 13, 2023, 11:00 am MST

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Consultant, Director, Program or Project Manager, Release Train Engineer, SAFe Program Consultant

Event Overview

We will review the many tools and resources available to ensure your success as a SAFe® trainer and coach.

– Ready to Train online learning
– Course enablement + validation
– Purchasing licenses
– Downloading courseware
– Creating courses
– Virtual classroom (optional, for remote setting)
– Uploading roster
– FAQs
– Other valuable resources

Speakers

Mike Alber

Director, Community Engagement at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Garren Watkins

Product Manager at Scaled Agile, Inc.

Transformation in Practice – Staffing the LACE

Transformation in Practice – Staffing the LACE

Hear unique perspectives from our experts on what they have seen work best in various contexts.

When:

June 21, 2023, 7:00 am – June 21, 2023, 7:30 am

Where:

Zoom

Who:

Agile Coach, Director, LACE Member, Release Train Engineer, SAFe Practice Consultant

Event Overview

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

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.