Applying the Scrum Master Role within a SAFe Enterprise
The SAFe® Scrum Master course equips attendees to coach Agile teams to deliver business value at scale. The course teaches you the tactical skills needed to be an effective Scrum Master in a SAFe organization. It also gives you the guidance and tools necessary for working in remote environments with distributed teams.
If you want to become a certified scrum master with the skills to help leading companies succeed with Agile and scrum, the SAFe® Scrum Master course is for you. Learn how scrum masters empower and lead Agile teams. Understand how to facilitate Agile events like iteration planning, team sync, and iteration retrospectives. And discover how to help teams plan and complete their work using SAFe Scrum and SAFe Kanban. You’ll also learn the principles of servant leadership, so you can help develop high-performing, engaged, continuously improving teams in your own organization.
After taking the course, you’ll know how to:
Empower and lead an Agile team
Facilitate Agile events like iteration planning, team sync, and iteration retrospectives
Help teams plan and complete their work
You’ll also learn the principles of servant leadership, which are crucial for key SAFe team roles. These skills will enable you to develop high-performing, engaged, and continuously improving teams in your own organization.
Attendees learn:
How to facilitate Scrum events
How to support PI execution
How to coach teams to improve constantly
How to implement DevOps for continuous flow and delivery
SAFe® Scrum Master answers the questions:
How do Scrum Masters facilitate planning and execution of work during a PI?
How do you coach and lead Agile teams inside a SAFe enterprise?
How do you become a servant leader to build a high-performing team?
Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help prepare you to take the certification exam, claim their digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
One-year access to SAFe® Studio with your first class attendance
Team Event Facilitator Guides
Online collaboration templates for all SAFe team events
Toolkits to help prepare and execute PI Planning
Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
SAFe Scrum Master certification exam
Adapted for interactive remote learning with SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
What people say about SAFe® Scrum Master
“I enjoyed this [SAFe Scrum Master] SSM course so much, I feel like picking up an SSM role immediately.”
What people say about SAFe Scrum Master
“The course boosted my motivation and gave me many new insights into the role of a scrum master.”
What people say about SAFe Scrum Master
“A strong focus on how the scrum master can develop themselves, grow and help the teams become high-performing teams.”
What people say about SAFe Scrum Master
“Excelente curso. Gracias por la información, estaremos llevando todo esto a la práctica.”
Delivering Value through Effective Planning Interval Execution
What skills do you need to deliver value in an Agile enterprise? The SAFe® Product Owner and SAFe® Product Manager (POPM) course covers the tactical responsibilities of these roles in the Agile Release Train (ART). The course and resulting certification give you the guidance and tools to work effectively in remote environments with distributed teams.
Learn how product owners and product managers should work together to achieve the best possible customer and business outcomes. The SAFe POPM course will teach you how to adopt a customer-centric approach to building products, using the Scaled Agile Framework® to deliver more value, faster. Topics covered in this course include the daily role of POs and PMs; collaborating with engineering teams and business stakeholders; how to write epics, features, and stories; and how to design, prioritize, build, test, and deliver products with increased productivity and higher quality.
Attendees learn:
How to perform the role of a PO and a PM on a daily basis
How to put the customer at the center of your design, build, and test process
How to prepare for and lead PI Planning
How to decompose Epics to Features and Features to Stories
How to collaborate with Agile teams to forecast work
SAFe® POPM answers the questions:
How do POs and PMs plan and execute work during a PI?
How do I integrate a customer-centric mindset to deliver products customers want?
Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help you prepare to take the certification exam, claim your digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
One-year access to SAFe Studio with your first class attendance
Product Management Video playlist and customer research tools to support product owners in their role
Platform access to e-learning modules and curated members-only content to support your SAFe transformation
Member discussion forms to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe framework or how to better perform as part of an Agile Team
Curated content-playlists based on your interests and roles, including templated resources and facilitation guides to get you started
Access to content, tools, and resources you need to practice SAFe every day
Implementing SAFe® offers attendees the broadest level of insight into each layer of a SAFe implementation. This course and resulting certification will help you understand the roles of each person in a SAFe organization and then plan and guide a SAFe transformation. It’s also the first step toward becoming a certified SAFe Practice Consultant.
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.
Attendees learn:
How to coach a SAFe transformation
How to launch Agile Release Trains
How to Organize around Value Streams
How to build solutions with Agile Product Delivery
How to empower a Lean portfolio
How to understand each role within a SAFe implementation
Implementing SAFe® answers the questions:
How do I plan and coach a SAFe transformation?
How can I demonstrate your expertise in and promote business agility?
How do I build successful solutions using Agile product management principles and skills?
Languages available:
Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese
Course workbook and SAFe Studio access to help you prepare to take the certification exam, claim your digital badge, and tools to get started in your SAFe role
Remote learning via SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
One-year access to SAFe Studio with your first class attendance
All the materials that you need to get started as a SAFe Trainer including complete trainer guidance and online enablement
Downloadable toolkits to help you prepare, facilitate and take action from key SAFe activities like Organizing Around Value
Platform access to e-learning modules and curated members-only content to support your SAFe transformation
Member discussion forms to engage in ongoing conversations on the SAFe framework or how to better perform as part of an Agile Team
SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC) Certification Exam
Adapted for interactive remote learning with SAFe® Virtual Classrooms
What people say about Implementing SAFe
“It was a very qualitative, successful training! I had some fears upfront about the ‘online’ formula but that didn’t bother me after all!”
What people say about Implementing SAFe
“Terrific and challenging course that provides all the theoretical and practical knowledge required to build mastery in this domain. Delighted to join the club of SPCs.”
What people say about Implementing SAFe
“Enjoyed the course and the learning journey! Refreshed a lot of knowledge on agile development and added a lot of knowledge of its scaling potential. I am eager to apply my knowledge!”
What people say about Implementing SAFe
“I loved this class. Highly recommended to progress in your journey.”
This one-day workshop will provide an overview of SAFe’s comprehensive measurement model and explore how it can be applied across teams, ARTs, and portfolios. Attendees will have the opportunity to consider their own context and design a balanced metrics dashboard to support improvement at all enterprise levels.
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
Odile Moreau
SAFe® Strategic Advisor and SPCT (Scaled Agile Inc.)
Odile is a SAFe® strategic advisor and SPCT for Scaled Agile Inc. She guides international organisations through adoption of business agility. By combining deep matter expertise with the ability to coach on behaviour and leadership, she has been a highly effective team coach for large organisations. Odile is passionate about Lean Kanban, Scrum, Lean and SAFe, never losing sight of the human factor. With 20+ years of professional experience helping profit and non-profit organisations in the fields of IT Service Management, Business Information Management and Software Engineering across the world, Odile worked for many profit and non-profits making organisations in Europe. The last 10 years her focus has been helping teams adopt the agile mindset, principles and practices at scale and continuous improvement methods.
Andrew has been supporting organizations with their Agile transformation for more than 10 years, drawing on his experiences from software development, project management, and product management. He previously led the Agile Services Practice across EMEA for CA Technologies (formerly Rally) and is a regular speaker at Agile conferences and contributor to the Agile community.
Why SAFe ® and SAP®? Getting better results with experience from the field
In this panel dialogue, we will share our experience at SBB (Swiss Federal Railways) and other SAP S/4 business transformations leveraging SAFe principles and practices to deliver better results.
When:
March 8, 2023, 4:00 pm – March 8, 2023, 5:00 pm ECT
Where:
Zoom
Who:
Agile Coach, Consultant, Director, SAFe Program Consultant
Event Overview: In this panel dialogue, we will share our experience at Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) and other SAP S/4 business transformations leveraging SAFe principles and practices to deliver better results. Showcase: SBB is harmonizing business processes across seven Portfolios with multiple value streams impacting 20.000 employees, building an Enterprise-wide state-of-the-art SAP S/4HANA. You will discover how to combine the SAFe Framework with an SAP delivery model to realize cross-portfolio initiatives.
We discuss the following topics:
• How do you manage SAP Cross-Portfolio Initiatives with SAFe – Organize around value and optimize for Flow for better results • How SAFe helps in achieving harmonization and standardization program objectives? • What is a State-of-the-Art SAP Delivery Model that accelerates Value Delivery and Organizational Agility? • What role do SAP Activate and Focused Build play in the State-of-the-Art SAP Delivery Model to realize program ambitions? • How do you ensure the integration of business concepts, processes, data, and systems, and how does SAFe help to achieve this? • How do you ensure simplicity, efficiency, and steering ability from a business/expert leadership/governance/program perspective – knowing that trade-offs will be necessary? • What patterns are helpful in the transition to a portfolio of portfolio SAFe Lean (Enterprise) Portfolio Management (tactical planning events and organizing around value with Value Nodes or Solution Areas)
In our interactive session, we highly welcome your participation in our discussion!
Speakers
Malte Kumlehn
Director and SAFe® Fellow – SAP Delivery Excellence (Project and Team Inc.)
Malte guides complex Ecosystems, People, Cloud, AI and Data powered digital transformations toward Business Agility. He pioneers Intelligent Operating Models for accelerated strategy execution with large solutions as globally the first of 30+ SAFe® Fellows, Executive Advisor & Advisory Board Members in this field. The SAFe® Fellow Program represents an elite class of experts who can help the world’s largest organizations accelerate digital transformation & achieve business agility. The SAFe® Fellow achievement is Scaled Agile’s most prestigious distinction, recognizing individuals who have exhibited the highest level of mastery and thought leadership in the practice and principles of SAFe. His track record includes founding, leading and growing Accenture’s first SAP Agile Delivery Excellence business. In his Business Owner role, he cared for people, revenue, cost, business development & delivery excellence while living Business Agility, applying Lean-Agile at Scale & SAFe daily.
Oliver Lauffer
Project and Program Manager (SAP)
Oliver Lauffer has been working for more than 20 Years at SAP. He has a long history of leading extensive international Programs and Projects with international Teams. Next to the standard project topics, his focus is on combining agile Methods and Frameworks like SAFe with implementing Standard Software like SAP and connected methodologies like SAP Activate. In addition to his project and program manager role, he has been a highly appreciated, trusted advisor and coach for large, global customer programs. In this role, his extensive experience in Organizational Change Management has been crucial for the success of these programs. Due to his result-oriented, structured working style, good communication skills and high capacity for teamwork, he managed various complex programs and rollouts on time, on budget and with high quality. In Parallel, he is responsible for the Swiss Project Manager Community from an SAP perspective.
Kaya Yumusaklar
Program Manager S/4 and Managing Director (Swiss Federal Railways)
Kaya Yumusaklar (47) has been leading SBB’s SAP S/4 Program since the beginning of 2022 and the overall SBB IT “Asset & Enterprise” practice since the beginning of 2023. In this role, he is the responsible IT Executive for delivering the ongoing SAP transition to S/4 and for developing and operating the overall application portfolio for rail infrastructure and rolling stock maintenance, real estate facility management, logistics, procurement and finance. Before that, he worked as a Finance Director at SBB and was responsible for strategic, companywide programs for cost management, transformation and carve-out initiatives. Kaya grew up in Konstanz in south of Germany. He later moved to Berlin and graduated from the TU Berlin in engineering and management. Later, before he joined SBB in 2015, he gained a broad experience in various industries as a Management Consultant based in Zürich and Berlin in strategy and organizational development projects and large transformations.
This one-day event, hosted by Scaled Agile at the Ronald Reagan Building, will explore the challenges agencies face in implementing Agile acquisitions within the unique constraints of the US Government.
When:
April 11, 2023, 9:00 am – April 11, 2023, 5:00 pm EST
Where:
Ronald Reagan Building – 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004
Who:
Agile Coach, Consultant, Director, SAFe Program Consultant
This year’s conference focuses on developing Agile Leadership skills for an Agile (SAFe) transformation. The conference will provide insight and ideas around common United States Government staff concerns such as Agile contracting, measuring an Agile acquisition, and strategies to build an agile workforce.
Prior to the conference, there will be a one-day workshop on April 10th. You can attend one or both days based on the pass you purchase. Group discounts are available for teams with five or more attendees.
Speakers
Check back as we confirm additional speakers.
Dr. Steve Mayner
SAFe Fellow and Principal Consultant (Scaled Agile Inc.)
Expert thought leader, speaker, coach, consultant, and trainer in the principles and practices of agility at an enterprise level. Extensive experience building positive relationships with C-Level executives and management teams, translating business goals and objectives into initiatives that provide IT capabilities in support of organizational investment themes. Strong background in both Federal and commercial organizations.
Events > Webinars > Business Agility in Banking: How Easy Can It Be?
Business Agility in Banking: How Easy Can It Be?
Banking is a highly regulated business, and most of the large banks have traditions that can easily become a major impediment to new ways of working and thinking.
When:
December 7, 2022, 1:00 pm – December 7, 2022, 2:00 pm ECT
Companies in the financial sector are also extremely aware of risk and financial risk management is one of the very regulated areas one has to take into account when changing the way of working.
In this webinar, Audrey Boydston and Mats will share some experiences in a dialog and discussion, as well as answer your questions.
Speakers
Audrey Boydston
SAFe® Fellow and SPCT (Scaled Agile Inc.)
As an executive management professional, I spent almost 20 years leading and managing projects and process improvement initiatives. After experiencing an agile transformation, I have discovered that it is more than just a methodology for managing product development, and am passionate about helping organizations on their Agile journeys. As an Agile trainer and coach, I have gained a unique perspective that allows me to take my hands on experiences and learnings and weave them into each training session I facilitate. I consider myself a visionary with the ability to establish rapport and facilitate highly collaborative sessions with diverse groups ranging from developers to senior leadership. I hold an array of certifications: SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT), Training from the BACK of the Room! (TBR-Certified Trainer), Project Management Professional (PMP), Org Mindset Enterprise Coach (OMEC), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP-SM and CSP-PO), SAFe RTE (RTE), ICAgile Certified
Mats Jegebo
Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor (WoW! Agile)
Currently Head Coach and co-founder of WoW! Agile, with 29 years of experience from being a consultant. Real life experience from large projects and organizations is what has given Mats his knowledge and understanding of how you create real business value and benefit. Since 2004 Mats has worked solely with large agile implementations, in leading roles as Project manager, Change control manager, Head coach, strategic advisor, etc. Mats has spent a great deal of his career in regulated businesses and the last 6 in banking.
Deema Dajani, Product Manager and SPCT at Scaled Agile Inc. will share synthesized updates applicable to your current operations. Carol McEwan and Anaël Pichon from iObeya will join Deema to share ideas on how to scale and improve your LACE practices as your organization matures. During this webinar, you will learn the following:
– How LACE formation evolves as a SAFe organization matures – The top concerns every LACE experiences – What LACEs budget for – How to improve awareness of your LACE progress and impact
Speakers
Deema Dajani
Product Manager, SPCT (Scaled Agile Inc.)
Deema draws on a Startup background and an MBA from Kellogg. She 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.
Carol McEwan
Agile Program Director (iObeya)
Carol McEwan currently serves as Agile Program Director at iObeya. She has more than 10 years Agile experience and is passionate about creating spaces for people to collaborate and solve complex problems. Previously, Carol has held senior leadership positions at Scaled Agile, Scrum@Scale, and Scrum Alliance.
Anaël Pichon
Manager – US Customer Success Operation (iObeya)
Anaël Pichon currently manages iObeya’s Client Success operations in the USA. She combines her experience as a Project Manager and her passion for Agile as a certified Professional Scrum Product Owner and SAFe SPC to help iObeya users get the best out of the platform.
Connect with SAFe coaches, industry experts, and change agents
Get advice from subject matter experts on setting up a SAFe transformation
Network, ask questions, and share best practices with your peers
Discover firsthand how British and European organizations use SAFe and Atlassian Solutions to deliver value to customers
Speakers
Tina Behers
VP Enterprise Agility (Adaptavist)
Tina is a Lean-Agile Transformation Professional, and an accomplished Business Leader with a proven ability to successfully create and execute value. Over 20 years of experience in leading organizational improvement initiatives with a strong focus on delivery and business alignment. Her expertise in delivering exceptional value, leading complex high-value technology, and business process improvement initiatives as a trusted advisor is proven in how she provides the right balance of consulting and the hands-on practical expertise.
Aslam Cader
Principal Atlassian Consultant (Valiantys)
Aslam Cader is based in London, and he leads the Agile at Scale practice for the Valiantys North EMEA region. He is an Atlassian Certified Expert and a Scaled Agile specialist with over 10 years of experience working with teams at all levels of scale. He has a Masters’ degree in Information Systems and Technology from City, University of London. He co-authored the book, Scaling Agile with Jira Align: A practical guide to strategically scaling agile across teams, programs, and portfolios in enterprises.
Fiona Chalk
Head of Portfolio Strategy and Funding (Vodafone)
Fiona Chalk is Head of Portfolio Strategy & Funding for the Lean Portfolio Management & Transformation team in Vodafone’s global Digital IT organization. Driven to support the implementation of SAFe for Vodafone by establishing how Digital & can organize to match strategic business priorities with the demand from multiple functions, in line with Lean Portfolio Management. Fiona has over 20 years of experience across Vodafone UK and Group in roles spanning Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Procurement, and Business Management. The last 15 years she managed large global Programmes launching major business products and solutions across multiple markets. Fiona enjoys fostering a culture of collaboration in large virtual teams in order to achieve transformational results. She adopted SAFe in 2017, implementing Lean Portfolio Management in 2019 for her programme. Fiona lives in Newbury, UK, with her husband, son and daughter. Outside work she enjoys time with her family cycling, sailing, skiing and walking the dog, and also supporting the local Scout Group. She can be contacted at Fiona.Chalk@vodafone.com or on LinkedIn.
Rick Cobb
Head of Global Solutions Sales (Atlassian)
Rick Cobb is the Head of Global Solutions Sales for Atlassian, a collaboration software company with a mission to unleash the potential of every team. Rick is a strategic, high-integrity technology executive and passionate leader with 25 years of experience building innovative, high-growth software companies known for the quality of their employees and commitment to customer success. His background includes deep international expertise in commercial and government sales, customer support, professional services, business development, and marketing, as well as overall technology company operations.
Mary Gagne
Director, Product Owner of SaaS Business Applications (Boston Consulting)
Mary is a sought-after leader and technology expert at Boston Consulting Group. She spearheaded the Atlassian tool implementation as part of the scaled agile transformation. The success of the Atlassian implementations and adoption has positioned Mary as an internal asset for BCG consultants. She advises colleagues on implementation approaches, governance models, technical challenges and best practices for client cases. In her current role, as a Product Owner, she oversees BCG’s Enterprise Business Applications, spanning Adobe suite, WalkMe, Atlassian & others. Prior to BCG, she had over 15 years of Product/Program Management experience within large to medium sized software development firms. Mary’s ability to deeply understand the organization she works for, while having a pulse on the needs of the people, accelerates the success of any transformation that she is part of. She lives in Boston, MA with her boyfriend and their three dogs. Outside of work she coaches individuals to awaken their heart and find their life purpose. She can be contacted at gagne.mary@bcg.com or through LinkedIn at Mary C Gagne.
Raj Heda
Expert Associate Partner (Bain)
Raj leads Bain’s Global Agile and Product coaching practice. Raj has 25+ years of experience in Healthcare, Banking & Finance, Media, Retail, and Education. He has helped dozens of firms across industries and around the world improve the agility and effectiveness of their technology-based innovation.
Raj has co-authored Agile Project Management (2009) and Risk Management (2013). He has published 13 patents. He is an adjunct professor at Boston University. Previously, he was head of Business Agility at BCG. He is also an SPCT (C).
Aaron Monroe
Global Head of Enterprise Agility (Visa)
Aaron is the Global Head of Enterprise Business Agility at Visa. He is a dynamic transformation leader with over 20 years of experience helping Fortune 500 companies build high performing teams, accelerate speed to market, and increase the business value delivered. He has a proven track record of leading successful enterprise transformations, and is capable of defining and implementing high-agility behaviors and practices at scale. He is a senior-level Agilist proficient at leading analytical problem-solving efforts to improve the effectiveness of product development, engineering practices, and business operations. Aaron is a compelling communicator able to motivate leaders at all organizational levels to embrace an Agile mindset, adopt Agile practices, and embrace change.
Odile Moreau
Strategic Advisor and SPCT (Scaled Agile Inc.)
Odile has over 20 years of experience helping profit and non-profit organizations in the fields of IT Service Management, Business Information Management, and Software Engineering across Europe. Over the last 10 years, Odilehas been helping leaders and teams adopt Lean and Agile values, mindset, principles, and practices at scale. Working as a Strategic advisor, Scaled Agile instructor, and consultant, Odile loves inspiring people and helping them develop the necessary skills, competencies, and behaviors in order to take the first step in improving and changing the way they work. By combining deep matter expertise with the ability to coach on behavior and leadership, she has proven to be a highly effective transformation coach for large organizations. Born and raised in France, after spending 27 years abroad (mainly in the UK and The Netherlands), she now works in Paris. When Odile is not working, you will probably find her exploring the world, immersing herself in local history, culture, cuisine, and arts.
MichelleNeilson
People and Practice Executive (The Adaptavist Group (Gravity Works))
As an entrepreneur, IT Professional and Enterprise Agile Coach in Financial Services and Telecommunications, Michelle has more than 16 years experience in developing and implementing progressive technology solutions for leading corporations. Coupled with her outstanding interpersonal and relationship management skills and talent for successfully leading large projects, Michelle thrives on coaching, mentoring, leading teams (across global locations) to deliver beyond expectations. Michelle is a critical thinker, passionate about high-quality, sustainable delivery across all facets of business and technology. Michelle is currently a Founding Member and Director of Gravity Works Business Consultants (part of The Adaptavist Group), a boutique consultancy focused on all facets of organisational and digital transformation in the financial services and telecommunications industry.Previously, Michelle was a Founding Member and Director of Freethinking Business Consultants, a financial services consultancy. Michelle has also held several senior managerial positions within large financial corporations.Her skills and expertise include Agile Methodologies, Six Sigma, Prince 2, ITIL, Release Management, Risk and Compliance Monitoring Solutions, TOGAF.
Andrew Sales
Principal Consultant, SAFe Fellow & Framework PM (Scaled Agile Inc.)
Andrew is a SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) and has many years of experience in delivering SAFe implementations across a wide range of different industries. He is an accomplished trainer, regularly delivering Scrum, Kanban, and Certified SAFe courses in both private and public settings.
Andrew possesses an excellent balance of technical and business acumen and has Masters’ degrees in both Philosophy and Software Development, and is part of the MBA program at Warwick Business School.
Sarah Sego
Agile Transformation Consultant (Cprime)
Sarah Sego is an Agile Transformation Consultant with over 10 years’ IT experience. Her career has focused on guiding Agile and Lean practices within large enterprises, both for process (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, etc.) and tooling (Jira, etc.). Sarah helps enterprises achieve scaling, productivity, speed to market, and customer satisfaction. She champions a hands-on leadership approach, emphasizing transparency, learning, innovation, quality, and continuous improvement within all levels of an organization.
Derek Vaughan
Head of Presales Consulting Northern Europe (Valiantys)
As a member of the Northern Europe Leadership team Derek works closely on Agile at Scale deployment with strategic customers. Derek has a passion for helping customers to achieving their value creation objectives with a combination of digital and organisation transformation. As a SAFe(TM) Agilist Derek takes a hands-on role as Project Director, assisting executive teams steer the enterprise in scaling agile and the deployment of Atlassian tools. He has worked on strategic transformation projects with Booking, Boston Consulting Group, amongst others.
Stephen de Villiers Graaf
Managing Director (The Adaptavist Group (Gravity Works))
Stephen is an inspirational coach, trainer and entrepreneur. He has gained over 20 years of experience in creating environments where people can excel, having held senior leadership roles such as Head of Application Development, Development Manager and Support Manager. Stephen has worked in many different industries from the collar and tie of large corporates, to the hard-hats and steel-caps of manufacturing.As a keen methodologist, Stephen is all about helping people discover new ways of thinking, learning and relearning with a strong emphasis on focus, simplicity and continuous improvement practices. As a talented public speaker and thought leader, Stephen inspires people and organisations to become passionately curious, creative, expressive and collectively responsible.Stephen is currently a Founding Member and Director of Gravity Works Business Consultants (part of The Adaptavist Group), a boutique consultancy focused on all facets of organisational and digital transformation in financial services and telecommunications.
Event Sponsors
We use cookies to analyze website performance and visitor data, deliver personalized content, and enhance your experience on the site. Cookie Policy. By clicking Accept you consent to the use of all cookies. Otherwise click Adjust Cookie Settings.
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience.
Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously.
Cookie
Duration
Description
cookielawinfo-checbox-analytics
11 months
This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics".
cookielawinfo-checbox-functional
11 months
The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional".
cookielawinfo-checbox-others
11 months
This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary
11 months
This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-performance
11 months
This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".
viewed_cookie_policy
11 months
The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.
Functional cookies help to perform certain functionalities like sharing the content of the website on social media platforms, collect feedbacks, and other third-party features.
Performance cookies are used to understand and analyze the key performance indexes of the website which helps in delivering a better user experience for the visitors.
Analytical cookies are used to understand how visitors interact with the website. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.
Advertisement cookies are used to provide visitors with relevant ads and marketing campaigns. These cookies track visitors across websites and collect information to provide customized ads.
