Most Agile adoptions put emphasis on training team members or specific roles. Having a group of “agile” teams does not provide the holistic change that is required within an organization looking to improve by adopting Agile, Scrum or Lean practices.Organizational Agility requires culture and paradigm shifts, changing the way work is approached, tackling impediments that are transparently exposed and in many cases, restructuring. Many organization leaders and managers say “this sounds great but where do I get started”? Join us for this session on how leaders can pragmatically begin the shift from traditional management to Agile management, enabling self-organization and becoming designers of the new environments that many organizations need to create in order for a successful Agile transformation.
Horse Before the Cart - An Outcome-Oriented Approach to SAFe® Transformations...Agile Velocity
In this workshop at Agile2019, Mike Hall shared an outcome-oriented approach to a scaled agile transformation. Instead of starting with the framework, Mike starts with a business objective. Attendees explored what agile outcomes will influence an organization towards a certain business objective. And collaboratively built a capability model within these outcomes to drive improvement. Then, attendees used SAFe® constructs to realize the capabilities in order to achieve the desired business objective.
Enterprise Agility with Jira Align Part 2: Planning for ValueCprime
Planning is a critical activity and a unique moment in time where your organization can set common business goals, identify dependencies, foster cross-team and cross-train collaboration, manage risks, and set timed objectives. This planning should match demand to capacity, eliminate excess WIP, and lead to fast decision-making.
Whatever name we give to our planning initiative (PI Planning, Big Room Planning, etc.), Jira Align can help navigate the complexity of large-scale technology initiatives by unifying and synchronizing the work happening across programs and portfolios for a clear executive-level view.
You will learn about:
- Why planning is critical to an organization’s success
- How data drives proper “Pivot” or “Persevere” decisioning
- How Jira Align helps drive predictability and offers to identify and manage Impediments, Risks, Dependencies, and Objectives
How to Leverage SAFe 5.0 for Your Enterprise Cloud StrategyCprime
Webinar on Demand: https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/how-to-leverage-safe-5-0-for-your-enterprise-cloud-strategy/
Check out Cprime's Cloud Strategy offerings: https://www.cprime.com/cloud/cloud-adoption-and-roadmapping/
Have you incorporated Cloud strategy into your SAFe transformation yet? Does your organization truly have a strategy to integrate Cloud Technologies with your Agile and DevSecOps approach? How about your data? Do you have a solid plan for how to access, govern, and monetize it?
This session will explore key aspects of Cloud, DevSecOps, and Data Strategy and cover how SAFe 5.0 helps organizations combine them into a centralized and coherent strategy, while decentralizing the execution and successful implementation of these strategic initiatives.
Join Ken France, VP, Scaled Agility at Cprime, and Sanjeev Sharma, Analyst and Consultant (sdarchitectconsulting.com) and author of "The DevOps Adoption Playbook," as we:
*Explore key components of Cloud, DevSecOps and Data Strategies.
*Illustrate how to leverage SAFe 5.0 to develop coherent enterprise strategy that’s effectively implemented.
*Examine key technical practices, across the SAFe 5.0 framework, that allow you to effectively execute your strategy.
Scrum works best with small teams that work to deliver software that is prioritized by the team backlog. It is then built-in iterative models with sprints by having the highest priority items implemented first. But when it comes to managing large organizations, a Scaled Agile Framework is adopted. Scaled Agile Framework, also known as SAFe, is an enterprise-scale development framework, developed by methodologist Dean Leffingwell. It uses a combination of existing lean and agile principles and combines them into a templated framework for large-scale projects. In the session, we are going to know why we should scale and we are going to talk about different scaling framework and in the end, we are going to talk more about SAFe.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Learnings from Ken France’s Personal Agility...Cprime
Download and watch the associated Webinar on Demand:
https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/planes-trains-and-automobiles-learnings-from-ken-frances-personal-agility-journey/
In celebration of the 20th year of the signing of the Agile Manifesto, Ken France, Agility Practice Leader and SAFe Fellow at Cprime, shares his professional journey which has been centered around application development and agility. He explains how planes, trains, and automobiles are directly tied to the long and winding road he traveled from being an application developer with a computer science degree to becoming the Agility Practice Leader at Cprime and SAFe Fellow.
This session highlights things he has learned and done along the way and he shares experiences and insights that may benefit others in their professional journey. This talk also features some “cameo” appearances from well-known industry icons who have influenced and supported him, specifically Grady Booch, Dr. Ivar Jacobson, and Dean Leffingwell.
This event was part of Agile 20 Reflect Festival, a global community-led agile event.
Do you find yourself inundated with product requests coming from all over the place? Are they coming in through email, Slack, text, chat, phone calls and who knows what else? Are the front lines capturing the needs of your customers but you are left wanting as to the importance or the why? Do you struggle to know the true value of the requests?
Managing the unlimited number of requests from internal and external customers results in either being too responsive and tactical trying to please everyone or the requests are disregarded as you focus on the “strategic”.
This webinar will share some tips and tricks that will enable you to create and implement a solution that provides the conduit for product requests in one place and allows your “community” to help surface the one that matter the most, all while they have visibility into the status and progress. Sure, saying no is better than not saying anything at all, but it is even better to root out what the market needs and let them know it is coming.
Horse Before the Cart - An Outcome-Oriented Approach to SAFe® Transformations...Agile Velocity
In this workshop at Agile2019, Mike Hall shared an outcome-oriented approach to a scaled agile transformation. Instead of starting with the framework, Mike starts with a business objective. Attendees explored what agile outcomes will influence an organization towards a certain business objective. And collaboratively built a capability model within these outcomes to drive improvement. Then, attendees used SAFe® constructs to realize the capabilities in order to achieve the desired business objective.
Enterprise Agility with Jira Align Part 2: Planning for ValueCprime
Planning is a critical activity and a unique moment in time where your organization can set common business goals, identify dependencies, foster cross-team and cross-train collaboration, manage risks, and set timed objectives. This planning should match demand to capacity, eliminate excess WIP, and lead to fast decision-making.
Whatever name we give to our planning initiative (PI Planning, Big Room Planning, etc.), Jira Align can help navigate the complexity of large-scale technology initiatives by unifying and synchronizing the work happening across programs and portfolios for a clear executive-level view.
You will learn about:
- Why planning is critical to an organization’s success
- How data drives proper “Pivot” or “Persevere” decisioning
- How Jira Align helps drive predictability and offers to identify and manage Impediments, Risks, Dependencies, and Objectives
How to Leverage SAFe 5.0 for Your Enterprise Cloud StrategyCprime
Webinar on Demand: https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/how-to-leverage-safe-5-0-for-your-enterprise-cloud-strategy/
Check out Cprime's Cloud Strategy offerings: https://www.cprime.com/cloud/cloud-adoption-and-roadmapping/
Have you incorporated Cloud strategy into your SAFe transformation yet? Does your organization truly have a strategy to integrate Cloud Technologies with your Agile and DevSecOps approach? How about your data? Do you have a solid plan for how to access, govern, and monetize it?
This session will explore key aspects of Cloud, DevSecOps, and Data Strategy and cover how SAFe 5.0 helps organizations combine them into a centralized and coherent strategy, while decentralizing the execution and successful implementation of these strategic initiatives.
Join Ken France, VP, Scaled Agility at Cprime, and Sanjeev Sharma, Analyst and Consultant (sdarchitectconsulting.com) and author of "The DevOps Adoption Playbook," as we:
*Explore key components of Cloud, DevSecOps and Data Strategies.
*Illustrate how to leverage SAFe 5.0 to develop coherent enterprise strategy that’s effectively implemented.
*Examine key technical practices, across the SAFe 5.0 framework, that allow you to effectively execute your strategy.
Scrum works best with small teams that work to deliver software that is prioritized by the team backlog. It is then built-in iterative models with sprints by having the highest priority items implemented first. But when it comes to managing large organizations, a Scaled Agile Framework is adopted. Scaled Agile Framework, also known as SAFe, is an enterprise-scale development framework, developed by methodologist Dean Leffingwell. It uses a combination of existing lean and agile principles and combines them into a templated framework for large-scale projects. In the session, we are going to know why we should scale and we are going to talk about different scaling framework and in the end, we are going to talk more about SAFe.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Learnings from Ken France’s Personal Agility...Cprime
Download and watch the associated Webinar on Demand:
https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/planes-trains-and-automobiles-learnings-from-ken-frances-personal-agility-journey/
In celebration of the 20th year of the signing of the Agile Manifesto, Ken France, Agility Practice Leader and SAFe Fellow at Cprime, shares his professional journey which has been centered around application development and agility. He explains how planes, trains, and automobiles are directly tied to the long and winding road he traveled from being an application developer with a computer science degree to becoming the Agility Practice Leader at Cprime and SAFe Fellow.
This session highlights things he has learned and done along the way and he shares experiences and insights that may benefit others in their professional journey. This talk also features some “cameo” appearances from well-known industry icons who have influenced and supported him, specifically Grady Booch, Dr. Ivar Jacobson, and Dean Leffingwell.
This event was part of Agile 20 Reflect Festival, a global community-led agile event.
Do you find yourself inundated with product requests coming from all over the place? Are they coming in through email, Slack, text, chat, phone calls and who knows what else? Are the front lines capturing the needs of your customers but you are left wanting as to the importance or the why? Do you struggle to know the true value of the requests?
Managing the unlimited number of requests from internal and external customers results in either being too responsive and tactical trying to please everyone or the requests are disregarded as you focus on the “strategic”.
This webinar will share some tips and tricks that will enable you to create and implement a solution that provides the conduit for product requests in one place and allows your “community” to help surface the one that matter the most, all while they have visibility into the status and progress. Sure, saying no is better than not saying anything at all, but it is even better to root out what the market needs and let them know it is coming.
This slideshow is to teach one of the most critical cornerstones of the entire SAFe process and that is the Planning Increment (PI).
This shoud teach the bascis so an individual can go away and start their journey towards planning their first one and have a good understanding of what a day at a PI looks like.
Slack + Atlassian Integration: Use Automation to Remove Organization Silos an...Cprime
An often neglected success factor in scaling agility is strategically connecting the big picture view across the organization. Teams gravitate to working in functional silos with independent and uncoordinated workflows across people, processes, and products, causing low business outcome predictability (<50%) due to poorly defined roles and disconnected collaboration.
In this webinar, we will highlight the differences between organic and intentional collaboration and why when collaboration is not strategically architected, predictability, visibility, and governance suffer as a result.
We will show specific use cases of how Slack messaging-driven collaboration and specifically its integration with your large work items in a tool like Atlassian enables business process automation, decision automation for effortless process automation, visibility, and productivity.
Enterprise Agility with Jira Align Part 1: Facing the Challenges Head OnCprime
High performance organizations compete and thrive by responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative and modern business solutions. In order to achieve Enterprise Agility, data has to flow seamlessly, starting at the top with strategy and goals set by leadership, all the way through execution to the delivery of value. This journey, however, is fraught with business challenges.
Jira Align allows organizations to connect and align around common goals and objectives while providing actionable views and metrics to all stakeholders involved in the technology product lifecycle.
Download Part 1 of our 3-part webinar series on achieving Enterprise Agility with Jira Align. Jesse Pearlman and Alan Furlong will provide insights and best practices on how to face common enterprise agility challenges and pitfalls head on.
You will learn about:
- What a connected enterprise is and how that drives agility
- How businesses can refine product understanding, align corporate to product strategy, and optimize product roadmapping and planning
- How to communicate a strategic plan to positively impact delivery
Why Agile Fail. *Hint* -it's more than just processTasktop
Presented by Zubin Irani, CEO, cPrime & Scot Garrison, Director of Professional Services, Tasktop
A successful Agile transformation requires a combination of people, process and technology, but too often these aspects are treated separately. Agile Coaches insist on remaining tool agnostic, and the agile management software experts often do not know the Agile process. Organizations with successful Agile teams often fail to replicate this success when they attempt to scale these practices throughout the software delivery organization.
To succeed in transforming to Agile, organizations must replace this fragmented approach with one that connects the entire application lifecycle with tools that are tightly integrated and automated to support processes. Join us as we demonstrate how this unified approach allows companies to
speed delivery through real-time collaboration
increase visibility of project status and compliance with cross tool traceability and reporting
encourage the use of specialized tools that support practitioners’ process.
Scaling Product Thinking with SAFe - The Secret Sauce for Meaningful Product ...Cprime
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is the agile methodology of choice for many large enterprises. It promises predictable and frequent delivery in complex environments.
Our experience with organizations that adopt SAFe shows that an organization’s willingness to blend product-thinking, technical agility and a culture of learning is the secret sauce for catapulting the organization from “process excellence” into meaningful product impacts.
In this webinar, we’ll share tried and tested ways of introducing product thinking and engineering practices into SAFe organizations, covering organizational, product, and technical ground.
You'll learn:
- How to establish products as value streams and gently reorganize ARTs over time without sacrificing product community or continuity.
- How to use product stories to engage your teams before and during PI planning in a way that invites collaboration on a healthy blend of continuous discovery and delivery.
- How customer, architectural, and operational learning pave the way for scaling to teams of teams from a DevOps perspective, including patterns and anti-patterns.
Enterprise Agility with Jira Align Part 3: Executing the Plan and Pivoting fo...Cprime
Webinar: https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/enterprise-agility-with-jira-align-part-3-executing-the-plan-and-pivoting-for-success/
As we start executing our plan, it’s time to start assessing the success of our initiative. Are we on track with the committed plan? Are we actualizing the plan that was put in place? Do we need to make adjustments?
As work progresses we also need to identify and measure the delivery of product value to help steer the Product Roadmap and continually deliver real meaningful product value to the market.
Download this webinar to explore insights and best practices on how to successfully execute, monitor and make the required adjustments to our plan using Jira Align.
You will learn about:
-How to define and track the work of teams as it relates to enterprise strategy
-How to use real-time insights and OKR tracking to measure the success of your strategic planning
-How to use the connectivity of work to measure outcomes and drive better value to your customers
Welcoming Halp to the Atlassian Stack: Streamline and Transform your Service ...Cprime
Check out the associated Webinar on Demand: https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/welcoming-halp-to-the-atlassian-stack-streamline-and-transform-your-service-desk/
Halp, the newest addition to the Atlassian family, is fundamentally changing the way teams work. Halp is a conversational ticketing solution that allows teams to turn any Slack message into a ticket that is then triaged to a private internal team channel. Tickets are then assigned, prioritized, managed, tracked, and reported on from Slack. Support, IT, Security, Legal and Finance teams can all conduct critical business without context switching to another piece of software.
Join Fletcher Richman, CEO at Halp, and Matthijs van Leeuwen, Solutions Engineer at Cprime, as we explore Halp and discuss:
*What is Halp; What challenges will it help you solve
*How Halp helps you automate your Atlassian Stack, power Jira Service Desk and augment with Slack
*How to streamline operations with easily customizable settings to meet your teams’ needs
*How you can improve customer experience, solve tickets faster and optimize reporting quality and accuracy
From Product Strategy to Backlog: Best Practices for Integrating Aha! Roadmap...Cprime
More than 5,000 companies choose Aha! Roadmaps for setting brilliant strategy, prioritizing features, and sharing visual plans. Product teams rely on robust integrations with leading development tools like Jira. They use these to share prioritized work with engineering and track progress against their roadmap in real-time.
Aha! expert Shawn Zenz and Cprime product coach Chris Poole will discuss product management best practices and demonstrate the most effective integration configurations.
You will learn how to:
- Set product strategy, plan releases, and prioritize features in Aha! Roadmaps
- Send features to your development team in Jira for implementation
- Monitor progress and track value creation
Download the associated webinar here: https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/from-product-strategy-to-backlog-best-practices-for-integrating-aha-roadmaps-with-jira/
Remote Working in a SAFe Environment: Collaborative Online Meetings and Fully...Cprime
While both the Agile manifesto and SAFe highlight the benefits of face-to-face communication, it has often been the case that organizations need to work remotely. The reasons for this can be varied – it may be due to very large teams in highly distributed locations, extensive travel time and cost commitments, or even as the result of unplanned travel restrictions, such as those being currently experienced.
This last scenario has led to a fully remote situation, where everyone is working from a separate location, interacting with colleagues through the use of technology.
This can lead to certain challenges, and in this webinar we will share guidance for successfully facilitating a fully distributed PI Planning event and leading collaborative online meetings.
In this Webinar, experts Andrew Sales (Scaled Agile), and Mike Carew (Cprime) will cover the following:
*Guiding the necessary behaviors for remote working with a Lean-Agile mindset
*Techniques for leading collaborative online meetings
*Overcoming pitfalls and success patterns for remote events
*Preparing and facilitating a successful, fully distributed PI Planning
*Recent experiences from Scaled Agile and their first remote PI Planning
From Project to Product: Unlocking Product AgilityCprime
Download the associated Webinar on Demand: https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/from-project-to-product-unlocking-product-agility/
Adherence to time, budget, and scope has been the gold standard measure of project success since the beginning of time. Most of the time we are super happy if we even get two of those! Now, as the digital world shifts from thinking in fixed-time period projects to ongoing product efforts with associated teams, markets, and horizons, adherence to time, budget, and scope has little do with the actual success of an initiative.
In this talk, Anne Steiner, VP of Product and Technology at Cprime, talks about the challenges and advantages companies and teams unlock when they apply product thinking over project thinking. We’ll explore topics like team formation, budgeting and planning, and reducing cycle times in order to fuel continuous product learning. You’ll be challenged to think beyond traditional project management norms and to elevate the delivery of value as the gold standard for success.
This event was part of Agile 20 Reflect Festival, a global community-led agile event.
Showcase Webinar: Mapping Business Outcomes to SAFe with Mike HallAgile Velocity
Are you considering SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)? Have you begun your SAFe implementation but are not seeing the promised business results? This webinar discusses how to ensure your desired business outcomes are achieved using SAFe. It explains the missing “connective tissue” that ties your business objectives to the underlying framework.
Mike Hall is an experienced Agile Coach specializing in scaling Agile and lean economics. He has led several large SAFe transformations and is an experienced SAFe trainer.
Leanban: The Next Step in the Evolution of AgileLeanKit
I'll introduce you to Leanban, which uses Lean thinking as a guide to incorporate the best of Scrum and Kanban into Agile software development practices.
10 Safe Essential Elements to Achieve the Benefits of SAFeCprime
This presentation explores what could happen as the Agile Release Train progresses with each later Program Increment. You will learn how to keep the train on the tracks with 10 essentials of SAFe, so you can achieve the full benefits of SAFe.
How to facilitate leadership participation, not just buy inAgileDenver
Are you frustrated with leadership wanting to delegate the Agile transformation and not getting involved? Come to this talk and learn about new ways to facilitate leadership engagement, not just buy-in. Learn how to form an Agile Leadership Scrum team, where leadership will understand they are responsible for the success or failure of an Agile transformation. There is something for every Agilist in this talk. Leaders will learn a new paradigm for engagement and understand how they can actively lead an Agile transformation. Agile coaches will learn how to build a significantly powerful guiding coalition. Agile team members will learn how to leverage leadership support to quickly resolve impediments and increase transparency.
In this talk we will discuss various topics related to how Lean Agile methodologies can scale to the Enterprise level, we will compare various scaling models, including, standard Scrum or hybrid Scrum methodologies (such as Scrum plus eXtreme Programming or Scrum + Kanban) have fully demonstrated their value to the team level.
But … What happens when we try to use these models in real more complex environments and contexts? Or, when we try to scale Lean Agile in real organizations that characterize an important amount of the landscape of IT in Italy? Moving from the level of the team to the level of the organization (program and portfolio) we will encounter a number of complex issues to some extent new. Hence the importance of knowing the values and principles that constitute the foundations of the concepts of Lean Agile Scaling. There are several models, born in recent years, who are confronted with the reality of the Enterprise. We will discuss this issue at an holistic level and we will compare some of these scaling models, such as: - the standard Scrum ( Ken Schwaber , Mike Cohn , ... ) - Larmann & Vodde - SAFe - DAD - Management 3.0 - CDE – plus other models and approaches taken from my consulting and managerial coaching Enterprise experiences.
ANI | Agile Kolkata | PI Planning in Action | Anand Pandey | 19th Oct 2019AgileNetwork
Abstract
The primary purpose of PI planning in SAFe is to gain alignment between business owners and program teams on a common, committed set of Program Objectives and Team Objectives for the next release (PI) time-box. This workshop is to experience PI planning in action.
Key Takeaways
1. Understanding of the importance of PI planning
2. Good practices for an effective PI planning
3. Preparatory work required for a PI planning
Every large enterprise needs to manage portfolios of business initiatives. Portfolio Management encompasses
• The formulation of initiatives, and the assessment of their value, effort, and Return on Investment
• The approval and scheduling of initiatives
• The evaluation of the status of ongoing initiatives
• The decision to continue or terminate an ongoing initiative
This webinar will provide guidance on effective ways to conduct Portfolio Management, using our concepts of Agile Governance to simplify and expedite the key decisions. These techniques can applied for Agile, hybrid, and classic plan-driven processes.
JIRA Service Desk for HR Service Management – The Trade Desk success storyCprime
Speed and efficiency. They're focal points for every business discipline and Business Operations & Support is no exception. These teams must be on the lookout for the next generation of tools and technology to scale & streamline operations and to stay competitive. Join us as we discuss with Drew West of The Trade Desk how to integrate and automate business rules into service requests using the Atlassian ecosystem to drive better efficiencies and business value. You'll come away with a solid understanding of how to build, grow, and maintain a successful service operations team.
Agile practices continue to improve as organizations move forward with adoption and adaption. However, as they move forward, they often run into daunting challenges—coordinating projects with highly complex requirements and interdependencies; navigating highly political environments; and finding ways to fund, report, and integrate agile project work into existing organizational processes. Jamie Mades has found that the Lean Agile Portfolio bridges these gaps, applying lean product development flow principles to identify high-value initiatives and speed completion of work. It reduces risk and uncertainty using agile development practices to realize those initiatives. Jamie discusses how to break down silos across all areas, reduce the divide between agile practices and senior executive requirements, and improve collaboration. Using a $500M portfolio at a Fortune 100 company as an example, he reviews how they seamlessly integrated agile planning into the annual funding cycle and coordinated highly complex work across the organization. Join Jamie to learn where you need to drive changes and where you can adapt agile practices to meet organizational needs.
Avanza Case Study - Agile Transformation with Customer Focus Mia Kolmodin
Avanza is a tech company with bank licence (you can call them a bank) here in Stockholm. A few years back they started their journey from a traditional silos based organization to a cross functional product organization organized around the customer journey - IT, Product, Marketing and Operations working as one. Here we want to share their story with you that we also had the pleasure to be a small part of.
Background
“Avanza's development organization has grown from 7 to 16 teams during the last 4 years. Great fun, of course, but it also required some prerequisites.
In the fall of 2016, our lead times increased significantly, we had many cross-dependencies between the teams; and, we began to see early signs that our team's motivation was suffering. We were not sure why this was because we had been working in an agile way for over 10 years. We needed to take the next step.
During the past year we have learned a great deal. Based on that, we have created a new team structure that follows our customer's journey and value streams. This new structure includes 16 autonomous teams with end-to-end responsibilities, with clear missions; and, that are linked to our vision. The teams also have responsibility for all channels and have the skills required to deliver on their missions.”
The Avanza product organization is about 200 people (IT/Product/Marketing/Operations)
RESULTS
- Decreased Time to Market, from 5,9 teams involved in a delivery to 1,2 in average
- Increased Strategic Flexibility, Team Missions connected to Customer Journey and
- Feature Teams enable strategic and tactical adjustments along the way
- Happy & Empowered Employees - Teams feeling like a startup. Owns the budget, learning about customer needs, delivering on all touch points and optimizing towards the business strategy.
- Happier Stakeholders - Involved with the teams work & understand the structure of the org
Want to find out how you can do the same? Reach out to Dandy People.
Building Hyperproductive Agile Teams: Leveraging What Science KnowsTechWell
The key impediments that prevent many organizations from ever realizing the promise of agile and lean aren’t rooted in processes or tools. The impediments stem from the organization’s leaders. Sharing an interdisciplinary overview of the most compelling science and research in the aspects of team performance, Michael DePaoli shows that it is largely ignored. Michael presents a holistic model for building lean/agile teams that combines what science knows enables teams to achieve that elusive state of “flow.” He describes the key external forces—safety for learning, team formation, team tasking, the motivational system, and leadership style—that affect an agile team’s ability to achieve flow. Learn the basics of this model and how Michael is applying it with clients today. Use this model to build your teams and drive agile at scale while evolving the broader organization to harness the promise of agile and lean product development.
This slideshow is to teach one of the most critical cornerstones of the entire SAFe process and that is the Planning Increment (PI).
This shoud teach the bascis so an individual can go away and start their journey towards planning their first one and have a good understanding of what a day at a PI looks like.
Slack + Atlassian Integration: Use Automation to Remove Organization Silos an...Cprime
An often neglected success factor in scaling agility is strategically connecting the big picture view across the organization. Teams gravitate to working in functional silos with independent and uncoordinated workflows across people, processes, and products, causing low business outcome predictability (<50%) due to poorly defined roles and disconnected collaboration.
In this webinar, we will highlight the differences between organic and intentional collaboration and why when collaboration is not strategically architected, predictability, visibility, and governance suffer as a result.
We will show specific use cases of how Slack messaging-driven collaboration and specifically its integration with your large work items in a tool like Atlassian enables business process automation, decision automation for effortless process automation, visibility, and productivity.
Enterprise Agility with Jira Align Part 1: Facing the Challenges Head OnCprime
High performance organizations compete and thrive by responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative and modern business solutions. In order to achieve Enterprise Agility, data has to flow seamlessly, starting at the top with strategy and goals set by leadership, all the way through execution to the delivery of value. This journey, however, is fraught with business challenges.
Jira Align allows organizations to connect and align around common goals and objectives while providing actionable views and metrics to all stakeholders involved in the technology product lifecycle.
Download Part 1 of our 3-part webinar series on achieving Enterprise Agility with Jira Align. Jesse Pearlman and Alan Furlong will provide insights and best practices on how to face common enterprise agility challenges and pitfalls head on.
You will learn about:
- What a connected enterprise is and how that drives agility
- How businesses can refine product understanding, align corporate to product strategy, and optimize product roadmapping and planning
- How to communicate a strategic plan to positively impact delivery
Why Agile Fail. *Hint* -it's more than just processTasktop
Presented by Zubin Irani, CEO, cPrime & Scot Garrison, Director of Professional Services, Tasktop
A successful Agile transformation requires a combination of people, process and technology, but too often these aspects are treated separately. Agile Coaches insist on remaining tool agnostic, and the agile management software experts often do not know the Agile process. Organizations with successful Agile teams often fail to replicate this success when they attempt to scale these practices throughout the software delivery organization.
To succeed in transforming to Agile, organizations must replace this fragmented approach with one that connects the entire application lifecycle with tools that are tightly integrated and automated to support processes. Join us as we demonstrate how this unified approach allows companies to
speed delivery through real-time collaboration
increase visibility of project status and compliance with cross tool traceability and reporting
encourage the use of specialized tools that support practitioners’ process.
Scaling Product Thinking with SAFe - The Secret Sauce for Meaningful Product ...Cprime
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is the agile methodology of choice for many large enterprises. It promises predictable and frequent delivery in complex environments.
Our experience with organizations that adopt SAFe shows that an organization’s willingness to blend product-thinking, technical agility and a culture of learning is the secret sauce for catapulting the organization from “process excellence” into meaningful product impacts.
In this webinar, we’ll share tried and tested ways of introducing product thinking and engineering practices into SAFe organizations, covering organizational, product, and technical ground.
You'll learn:
- How to establish products as value streams and gently reorganize ARTs over time without sacrificing product community or continuity.
- How to use product stories to engage your teams before and during PI planning in a way that invites collaboration on a healthy blend of continuous discovery and delivery.
- How customer, architectural, and operational learning pave the way for scaling to teams of teams from a DevOps perspective, including patterns and anti-patterns.
Enterprise Agility with Jira Align Part 3: Executing the Plan and Pivoting fo...Cprime
Webinar: https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/enterprise-agility-with-jira-align-part-3-executing-the-plan-and-pivoting-for-success/
As we start executing our plan, it’s time to start assessing the success of our initiative. Are we on track with the committed plan? Are we actualizing the plan that was put in place? Do we need to make adjustments?
As work progresses we also need to identify and measure the delivery of product value to help steer the Product Roadmap and continually deliver real meaningful product value to the market.
Download this webinar to explore insights and best practices on how to successfully execute, monitor and make the required adjustments to our plan using Jira Align.
You will learn about:
-How to define and track the work of teams as it relates to enterprise strategy
-How to use real-time insights and OKR tracking to measure the success of your strategic planning
-How to use the connectivity of work to measure outcomes and drive better value to your customers
Welcoming Halp to the Atlassian Stack: Streamline and Transform your Service ...Cprime
Check out the associated Webinar on Demand: https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/welcoming-halp-to-the-atlassian-stack-streamline-and-transform-your-service-desk/
Halp, the newest addition to the Atlassian family, is fundamentally changing the way teams work. Halp is a conversational ticketing solution that allows teams to turn any Slack message into a ticket that is then triaged to a private internal team channel. Tickets are then assigned, prioritized, managed, tracked, and reported on from Slack. Support, IT, Security, Legal and Finance teams can all conduct critical business without context switching to another piece of software.
Join Fletcher Richman, CEO at Halp, and Matthijs van Leeuwen, Solutions Engineer at Cprime, as we explore Halp and discuss:
*What is Halp; What challenges will it help you solve
*How Halp helps you automate your Atlassian Stack, power Jira Service Desk and augment with Slack
*How to streamline operations with easily customizable settings to meet your teams’ needs
*How you can improve customer experience, solve tickets faster and optimize reporting quality and accuracy
From Product Strategy to Backlog: Best Practices for Integrating Aha! Roadmap...Cprime
More than 5,000 companies choose Aha! Roadmaps for setting brilliant strategy, prioritizing features, and sharing visual plans. Product teams rely on robust integrations with leading development tools like Jira. They use these to share prioritized work with engineering and track progress against their roadmap in real-time.
Aha! expert Shawn Zenz and Cprime product coach Chris Poole will discuss product management best practices and demonstrate the most effective integration configurations.
You will learn how to:
- Set product strategy, plan releases, and prioritize features in Aha! Roadmaps
- Send features to your development team in Jira for implementation
- Monitor progress and track value creation
Download the associated webinar here: https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/from-product-strategy-to-backlog-best-practices-for-integrating-aha-roadmaps-with-jira/
Remote Working in a SAFe Environment: Collaborative Online Meetings and Fully...Cprime
While both the Agile manifesto and SAFe highlight the benefits of face-to-face communication, it has often been the case that organizations need to work remotely. The reasons for this can be varied – it may be due to very large teams in highly distributed locations, extensive travel time and cost commitments, or even as the result of unplanned travel restrictions, such as those being currently experienced.
This last scenario has led to a fully remote situation, where everyone is working from a separate location, interacting with colleagues through the use of technology.
This can lead to certain challenges, and in this webinar we will share guidance for successfully facilitating a fully distributed PI Planning event and leading collaborative online meetings.
In this Webinar, experts Andrew Sales (Scaled Agile), and Mike Carew (Cprime) will cover the following:
*Guiding the necessary behaviors for remote working with a Lean-Agile mindset
*Techniques for leading collaborative online meetings
*Overcoming pitfalls and success patterns for remote events
*Preparing and facilitating a successful, fully distributed PI Planning
*Recent experiences from Scaled Agile and their first remote PI Planning
From Project to Product: Unlocking Product AgilityCprime
Download the associated Webinar on Demand: https://www.cprime.com/resource/webinars/from-project-to-product-unlocking-product-agility/
Adherence to time, budget, and scope has been the gold standard measure of project success since the beginning of time. Most of the time we are super happy if we even get two of those! Now, as the digital world shifts from thinking in fixed-time period projects to ongoing product efforts with associated teams, markets, and horizons, adherence to time, budget, and scope has little do with the actual success of an initiative.
In this talk, Anne Steiner, VP of Product and Technology at Cprime, talks about the challenges and advantages companies and teams unlock when they apply product thinking over project thinking. We’ll explore topics like team formation, budgeting and planning, and reducing cycle times in order to fuel continuous product learning. You’ll be challenged to think beyond traditional project management norms and to elevate the delivery of value as the gold standard for success.
This event was part of Agile 20 Reflect Festival, a global community-led agile event.
Showcase Webinar: Mapping Business Outcomes to SAFe with Mike HallAgile Velocity
Are you considering SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)? Have you begun your SAFe implementation but are not seeing the promised business results? This webinar discusses how to ensure your desired business outcomes are achieved using SAFe. It explains the missing “connective tissue” that ties your business objectives to the underlying framework.
Mike Hall is an experienced Agile Coach specializing in scaling Agile and lean economics. He has led several large SAFe transformations and is an experienced SAFe trainer.
Leanban: The Next Step in the Evolution of AgileLeanKit
I'll introduce you to Leanban, which uses Lean thinking as a guide to incorporate the best of Scrum and Kanban into Agile software development practices.
10 Safe Essential Elements to Achieve the Benefits of SAFeCprime
This presentation explores what could happen as the Agile Release Train progresses with each later Program Increment. You will learn how to keep the train on the tracks with 10 essentials of SAFe, so you can achieve the full benefits of SAFe.
How to facilitate leadership participation, not just buy inAgileDenver
Are you frustrated with leadership wanting to delegate the Agile transformation and not getting involved? Come to this talk and learn about new ways to facilitate leadership engagement, not just buy-in. Learn how to form an Agile Leadership Scrum team, where leadership will understand they are responsible for the success or failure of an Agile transformation. There is something for every Agilist in this talk. Leaders will learn a new paradigm for engagement and understand how they can actively lead an Agile transformation. Agile coaches will learn how to build a significantly powerful guiding coalition. Agile team members will learn how to leverage leadership support to quickly resolve impediments and increase transparency.
In this talk we will discuss various topics related to how Lean Agile methodologies can scale to the Enterprise level, we will compare various scaling models, including, standard Scrum or hybrid Scrum methodologies (such as Scrum plus eXtreme Programming or Scrum + Kanban) have fully demonstrated their value to the team level.
But … What happens when we try to use these models in real more complex environments and contexts? Or, when we try to scale Lean Agile in real organizations that characterize an important amount of the landscape of IT in Italy? Moving from the level of the team to the level of the organization (program and portfolio) we will encounter a number of complex issues to some extent new. Hence the importance of knowing the values and principles that constitute the foundations of the concepts of Lean Agile Scaling. There are several models, born in recent years, who are confronted with the reality of the Enterprise. We will discuss this issue at an holistic level and we will compare some of these scaling models, such as: - the standard Scrum ( Ken Schwaber , Mike Cohn , ... ) - Larmann & Vodde - SAFe - DAD - Management 3.0 - CDE – plus other models and approaches taken from my consulting and managerial coaching Enterprise experiences.
ANI | Agile Kolkata | PI Planning in Action | Anand Pandey | 19th Oct 2019AgileNetwork
Abstract
The primary purpose of PI planning in SAFe is to gain alignment between business owners and program teams on a common, committed set of Program Objectives and Team Objectives for the next release (PI) time-box. This workshop is to experience PI planning in action.
Key Takeaways
1. Understanding of the importance of PI planning
2. Good practices for an effective PI planning
3. Preparatory work required for a PI planning
Every large enterprise needs to manage portfolios of business initiatives. Portfolio Management encompasses
• The formulation of initiatives, and the assessment of their value, effort, and Return on Investment
• The approval and scheduling of initiatives
• The evaluation of the status of ongoing initiatives
• The decision to continue or terminate an ongoing initiative
This webinar will provide guidance on effective ways to conduct Portfolio Management, using our concepts of Agile Governance to simplify and expedite the key decisions. These techniques can applied for Agile, hybrid, and classic plan-driven processes.
JIRA Service Desk for HR Service Management – The Trade Desk success storyCprime
Speed and efficiency. They're focal points for every business discipline and Business Operations & Support is no exception. These teams must be on the lookout for the next generation of tools and technology to scale & streamline operations and to stay competitive. Join us as we discuss with Drew West of The Trade Desk how to integrate and automate business rules into service requests using the Atlassian ecosystem to drive better efficiencies and business value. You'll come away with a solid understanding of how to build, grow, and maintain a successful service operations team.
Agile practices continue to improve as organizations move forward with adoption and adaption. However, as they move forward, they often run into daunting challenges—coordinating projects with highly complex requirements and interdependencies; navigating highly political environments; and finding ways to fund, report, and integrate agile project work into existing organizational processes. Jamie Mades has found that the Lean Agile Portfolio bridges these gaps, applying lean product development flow principles to identify high-value initiatives and speed completion of work. It reduces risk and uncertainty using agile development practices to realize those initiatives. Jamie discusses how to break down silos across all areas, reduce the divide between agile practices and senior executive requirements, and improve collaboration. Using a $500M portfolio at a Fortune 100 company as an example, he reviews how they seamlessly integrated agile planning into the annual funding cycle and coordinated highly complex work across the organization. Join Jamie to learn where you need to drive changes and where you can adapt agile practices to meet organizational needs.
Avanza Case Study - Agile Transformation with Customer Focus Mia Kolmodin
Avanza is a tech company with bank licence (you can call them a bank) here in Stockholm. A few years back they started their journey from a traditional silos based organization to a cross functional product organization organized around the customer journey - IT, Product, Marketing and Operations working as one. Here we want to share their story with you that we also had the pleasure to be a small part of.
Background
“Avanza's development organization has grown from 7 to 16 teams during the last 4 years. Great fun, of course, but it also required some prerequisites.
In the fall of 2016, our lead times increased significantly, we had many cross-dependencies between the teams; and, we began to see early signs that our team's motivation was suffering. We were not sure why this was because we had been working in an agile way for over 10 years. We needed to take the next step.
During the past year we have learned a great deal. Based on that, we have created a new team structure that follows our customer's journey and value streams. This new structure includes 16 autonomous teams with end-to-end responsibilities, with clear missions; and, that are linked to our vision. The teams also have responsibility for all channels and have the skills required to deliver on their missions.”
The Avanza product organization is about 200 people (IT/Product/Marketing/Operations)
RESULTS
- Decreased Time to Market, from 5,9 teams involved in a delivery to 1,2 in average
- Increased Strategic Flexibility, Team Missions connected to Customer Journey and
- Feature Teams enable strategic and tactical adjustments along the way
- Happy & Empowered Employees - Teams feeling like a startup. Owns the budget, learning about customer needs, delivering on all touch points and optimizing towards the business strategy.
- Happier Stakeholders - Involved with the teams work & understand the structure of the org
Want to find out how you can do the same? Reach out to Dandy People.
Building Hyperproductive Agile Teams: Leveraging What Science KnowsTechWell
The key impediments that prevent many organizations from ever realizing the promise of agile and lean aren’t rooted in processes or tools. The impediments stem from the organization’s leaders. Sharing an interdisciplinary overview of the most compelling science and research in the aspects of team performance, Michael DePaoli shows that it is largely ignored. Michael presents a holistic model for building lean/agile teams that combines what science knows enables teams to achieve that elusive state of “flow.” He describes the key external forces—safety for learning, team formation, team tasking, the motivational system, and leadership style—that affect an agile team’s ability to achieve flow. Learn the basics of this model and how Michael is applying it with clients today. Use this model to build your teams and drive agile at scale while evolving the broader organization to harness the promise of agile and lean product development.
Many organizations have long term employees retiring and find themselves needing to be competitive to fill key roles. Schools are teaching new ways of working that include working as part of a team, and using Agile methods.
In this one hour webinar we will explore how hiring practices and working environments need to change in order to attract and retain top talent in today's competitive market.
Why do so many organizations struggle to put in place mature Agile teams that can apply proper Agile principles and deliver awesome products? Some people will say, “Agile is hard” as an excuse to not do Agile or to become frAgile. Well we think we have developed the “Secret Sauce” to rebooting any Agile team that just doesn’t seem to be maturing and we want to share it with you!
If you are thinking of scaling Agile across a large organization, then this talk is a must to attend to help ensure your teams have the right foundation. Organizations wanting to scale Agile must have a solid foundation of mature Agile teams who embrace the Agile values and have the right Agile mindset.
Over the years, as we have done Agile transformations in different organizations, we have seen common patterns that keep repeating. The most common pattern we found in our experience is that teams are frAgile. Too many either pretend to be Agile or don’t even know Agile is not a methodology, so organizations question the value of using Agile. Very often the confusion and frustration that comes with thinking that a team is Agile when they are not Agile, brings people right back to their old habits of command and control. Creating successful mature Agile teams is not sorcery, you need to discover the secret sauce!
In this talk, we will reveal our secrets on how to create a successful Agile-Scrum team in 5 sprints. Attendees will learn how we applied our secret sauce as we experimented with more than 30 teams and we refined the know-how. This recipe has proven to be successful in different organizations and teams delivering different types of products. Our Creative-Destruction approach goes through a human change process we labeled The Intervention Plan. The 5 steps are:
Step 1: Run in the rain
Step 2: Thunderstruck
Step 3: Start the M&M pain machine
Step 4: Open-up and look at the sun
Step 5: Removing the training wheels
And by using these 5 steps, attendees will discover the 5th Agile value!
Invest in builing the right thing with a formalized discovery process agilein...Anjali Leon
Do you have a nagging feeling that you may not be investing in building the right thing?
Do your products have features that are rarely or never used? Does it takes your organization the full investment of building and launching a product to validate an idea? Is your organization challenged with striking the right balance between the demands of a scalable, high-quality product and innovating on the most compelling problems and opportunities for your customers?
At Pearson Online & Blended Learning, we met these challenges head-on by creating and implementing a framework that includes early collaboration within a multi-disciplinary team and a light-weight process. Based on Design Thinking principles and practices, the framework effectively balances discovery and delivery efforts. It ensures that, across the portfolio, our investments are focused on the right things, and the efforts of our delivery teams are aligned to solving the most important problems for our customers and addressing the most valuable opportunities for our business.
In this interactive session, learn about this discovery framework, our implementation approach, and our triumphs and challenges. Each participant will have the opportunity to reflect on how a similar approach may help them address challenges within their own organizations.
Good agile / Bad agile: Proving the value of Agile to a skeptical organizationAlan Albert
Is Agile worth it?
What value can being Agile bring to your organization?
Done right, Agile software development methodologies can help your organization deliver greater value to customers and other stakeholders more efficiently and with reduced risk.
Done wrong, Agile methodologies become an endlessly iterating feature factory, facing an ever-growing backlog.
In this interactive session, attendees discussed:
- How to identify what’s most valuable to build next
- How to ensure that the features you build are not just functional, but used and valued
- How to measure and effectively communicate the value that you create
Led by Alan Albert of MarketFit, this session at Agile Vancouver explored theory, examples, and exercises showing how to unlock the power of discovering, creating, and communicating value.
Two techniques to help you survive as a Product Owner. First, learn how to deal with seagull stakeholders. Second, learn how to easily and mathematically determine the complexity of your user stories and pare them down for your development team.
Achieving Sustainable Growth in the Digital AgeCprime
Key Learnings:
- Discover strategies for successfully navigating the digital landscape by leveraging innovative tools, methodologies, and data analytics to maintain a competitive edge.
- Learn how aligning resource allocation with iterative product delivery can enhance the visibility of customer value and establish a clear link between expenses and value generation.
- Gain insights into the significance of evaluating non-traditional performance indicators to comprehend the intricate relationships between customer perceived worth, product launch strategies, and financial outcomes for sound business choices.
Mastering an Integrated Atlassian Tooling Ecosystem: Strategies, Success Stor...Cprime
Are you ready to take your Atlassian tooling ecosystem to the next level? Join our panel of renowned Atlassian experts as they dive deep into the strategies, best practices, and real-world success stories that can help you maximize the value of your technology investments, streamline workflows, and drive innovation across your organization.
In this must-attend panel session, our experts will share stories from the trenches, highlighting the challenges, successes, and lessons learned from their extensive experience working with organizations of all sizes and industries. You'll gain valuable insights into the best practices and strategies that have proven successful in maximizing the benefits of Atlassian tooling ecosystems.
Learning Objectives:
- Align tools, processes, and business objectives to mitigate escalating technology costs and boost efficiency
- Leverage automation and best practices in tool selection to enhance operability, collaboration, and productivity
- Develop a comprehensive tech stack strategy that empowers your teams with the visibility to optimize, adapt, and innovate
- Navigate common challenges and pitfalls in implementing and managing an integrated Atlassian tooling ecosystem
By harnessing custom-crafted AI solutions, teams can expect improved efficiency, enhanced creativity, and better alignment with Agile principles. We'll explore how this powerful collection of technologies and solutions turbocharges delivery and enhances developer experience.
Learn more as we introduce a turnkey framework that empowers Agile development and efficiency in the AI era. Cprime’s CodeBoost™ and AgileSME AI solutions offer a groundbreaking approach that delivers a complete framework for development in the AI age.
Improving IT Investment Decisions and Business Outcomes with Integrated Enter...Cprime
Learn how integrating Enterprise Architecture Management capabilities as part of your IT Finance and Agile Planning processes can help you to:
- Calculate TCO across your entire portfolio of applications, infrastructure and labor
- Drive more informed IT investment decisions and reliably measure results
- Improve business outcomes and accelerate your strategic digital journey
Harnessing Atlassian's Power Through Cloud Transformation and AdoptionCprime
Transitioning to Atlassian Cloud unlocks a new realm of possibilities. Organizations that have recently migrated to Cloud report a 47% boost in team collaboration, and a 44% increase in rapid, insight-driven decisions. And, Forrester reports a 20% developer productivity increase and a strategic 50% IT time reallocation to high-value work for organizations moving to a cloud environment.
Our webinar, "Harnessing Atlassian's Power Through Cloud Transformation and Adoption", will guide you through maximizing cloud adoption, and leveraging Cloud-specific AI and analytics. We’ll also Explore cutting-edge tools like Atlas, Compass, and JPD that extend beyond Data Center capabilities, further enhancing the Cloud experience.
Key takeaways:
- How to boost adoption and make the transition as smooth as possible.
- Strategies to harness unique cloud features for shorter time-to-value, and data-driven decision making.
- Insights into exclusive cloud tools that drive innovation and productivity.
- Understanding the enterprise value and IT efficiency gains from cloud transformation and adoption.
AI-powered Service Management: Streamlining Incident Management in JSM using ...Cprime
Sound incident management operations encompass activities ranging from logging and prioritization to escalation, documentation, and reporting. What could your employees do with all that extra time if you automated these operations with AI?
In this webinar, we will showcase:
- How to streamline incident management and post-incident reviews by harnessing no-touch resolution and triage with 3rd party tools like Atlassian Jira Service Management
- How to use incident management to improve your customer’s experience while incorporating an added layer of efficiency with custom AI co-pilots
- How to empower human agents to resolve issues faster and drive continuous improvement and enhanced knowledge management for incident escalations
Enterprise Migration from Data Center to Atlassian Cloud: Start with an Asses...Cprime
Large enterprises have unique needs and complexity when migrating Atlassian tools from Data Center to the Cloud. Whether you’re exploring the Cloud or planning a migration from Data Center, our Atlassian Cloud Migration Impact Assessment identifies migration obstacles and charts the optimal path. With assessment in hand, enterprise leaders can make informed decisions on moving core business platforms to the cloud.
Learn:
- Benefits of Cloud for large orgs and how to evaluate if it’s the right fit
- Factors like integrations, data migration, security, compliance, and performance at scale
- Tools and methods for analyzing complex on-prem environments
Preparation best practices for enterprise infrastructure and applications
- How assessment provides a detailed transition plan and strategy
- Insights needed to minimize disruption and downtime
AI for Everyone: Demystifying Large Language Models (LLMs) Like ChatGPTCprime
We’ve only scratched the surface of realizing the full potential of ChatGPT and other Large Language Models (LLMs) in a strategic business context. Here’s another game-changer: Incorporating your unique enterprise data with LLMs to tailor a private model that learns, retains, and utilizes your business’s unique information. It can deliver contextualized value and efficiency to enhance processes and better achieve strategic outcomes.
In this webinar, we’ll explore how these custom models are revolutionizing the business landscape with the added context of invaluable proprietary business knowledge. Join us to learn the power and practical applications of secure, private LLMs and catch live demonstrations to tangibly enforce how to tackle significant business challenges such as Agile Adoption and Service Management.
Learning Objectives
- Introduction to AI and LLMs: Understand the basics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how widely available Large Language Models (LLMs) are a key advancement in this field.
- Practical Applications of LLMs: Learn how LLMs can enhance operational processes and contribute to business growth in real-world scenarios, and how they can be customized to meet specific business needs.
- Benefits of Customization: Discover the advantages of tailoring AI solutions like LLMs to understand and support unique business requirements.
- Relevance and Precision: Learn how LLMs adapt to specific business contexts, ensuring that interactions are accurate and aligned with organizational objectives.
From Project to Product - The Need for SpeedCprime
As we look to enhance our ways of working and shift from project-based methodologies to product thinking, it's easy to overlook the technical aspects of this change. Let's not make that mistake.
In this webinar, Cprime's Ken Robinson, and Anne, Chief Product Coach, delve into the technical aspects of switching from project to product. What does this mean for our engineers, testers, and product teams? Equally important, what does this mean to the health, resilience, and maneuverability of our codebases and environments?
We'll approach these topics across the following dimensions:
-Development - new product development as well as maintenance and enhancements
-Testing
-Delivery Lifecycle
Lastly, we'll bring it all together to illustrate how engineering for speed + quality and the concept of "total product ownership" reduces time to market, enhances product quality, and fuels maneuverability.
We Need a Hero — How to Find and Support Your Next Superstar Product OwnerCprime
A Product Owner serves as the bridge between the development team and stakeholders, steering the product's vision and driving its success. An excellent product owner can elevate the entire product team. But how do you find the right person to take on this vital role?
Hiring external candidates with Product Owner expertise is an option, but many organizations overlook an often easier and more effective opportunity: to train or develop their internal employees for these crucial roles.
Upskilling your existing product professionals can be the most time- and cost-effective option. Plus, they offer in-depth domain knowledge—specific to your unique organization—no outside hire can match.
By the end of the webinar you will know:
-How to identify existing employees that have the mindset and institutional knowledge to successfully fill the Product Owner role
-How to determine what skills the new Product Owner needs to learn through a focused gap analysis
-How to create an environment that encourages continuous learning so that they can grow into the role and help you and your team deliver great products over time
How to Unlock Productivity and Innovation with Generative AI and ChatGPTCprime
Doing more with less has become the mantra for success. Yet monotonous tasks and manual processes put undue strain on productivity and innovation. What if you could automate time-consuming workflows and enable your team to focus on high-impact work?
Discover how Generative AI (GenAI), specifically ChatGPT, is transforming workflows across industries. We will provide real-world examples of how leading organizations leverage GenAI to eliminate repetitive tasks, deliver insights instantly, and create content intelligently.
You will learn:
- How GenAI, specifically ChatGPT, works and its key capabilities
- High-impact use cases of GenAI-powered automation
- Steps for identifying and prioritizing processes to automate
- Best practices for change management when implementing GenAI
- Forecasted evolution of GenAI and its future applications
Whether you are an executive seeking a competitive edge, or a manager looking to boost team productivity, this webinar will equip you with actionable strategies to drive efficiency and innovation with Generative AI.
Modern Learning for Enterprises: How to Empower Your TeamsCprime
Today’s complex technology organizations need to deliver learning at the right time, to the right people, and on the right topic, continuously. A unique concept—Learning Pathways—blends on-demand bite-sized self-paced learning, more traditional instructor-led learning, and on-the-job learning through assignments reviewed by a skilled facilitator.
Cprime has been experimenting with this new learning delivery format with some of our most demanding customers, and we’re eager to share what we’ve learned.
Join Cprime’s Directors of Learning for the U.S. and EMEA to explore the range of learning tools your organization can leverage to equip and empower your people with the latest technology and team practice skills.
You will learn about:
-What’s required to future-proof your organization’s learning initiatives
-How to get the most bang for your buck by maximizing knowledge retention and application
-The value of expert learning help and where to get it to meet your organization’s unique needs
Enterprise Service Management for Finance, HR, and MarketingCprime
Enterprise Service Management (ESM) is an optimized combination of the right software solution, well-thought-out processes and workflows, and customized automation that effectively supports a customer-centric approach to each service an internal business unit undertakes.
In this three-part webinar series, we will be focusing on those building blocks to provide a well-rounded understanding of ESM and how it can effectively uplevel your internal and external customer service processes.
In Part Three, Putting it All Together: ESM for HR, Finance, Marketing, and More, you will learn:
-How an ESM implementation looks in each of the major business units
-Why ESM can and should permeate the whole organization… eventually
-Examples of successful implementations you can use as models for your own
ESM Webinar Series Part 2 | The Keys to Optimal ESM are Automation and Integr...Cprime
Enterprise Service Management (ESM) is an optimized combination of the right software solution, well-thought-out processes and workflows, and customized automation that effectively supports a customer-centric approach to each service an internal business unit undertakes.
In this three-part webinar series, we focus on those building blocks to provide a well-rounded understanding of ESM and how it can effectively uplevel your internal and external customer service processes.
In Part Two, The Keys to Optimal ESM are Automation and Integration, you will learn:
- The power of automation to streamline and optimize your ESM practice
- Examples of apps, workflows, and integrations that have proven successful
- How to map out your own workflows to optimize your unique ESM experience
Perfecting Customer Management Using Jira Service ManagementCprime
An optimized ITSM practice using Atlassian Jira Service Management (JSM) has brought tremendous benefits to organizations seeking to cement a customer-centric approach to their service management processes.
In the first two parts of this webinar series, we discussed an introduction to change management, service catalogs, and CMDB, and how they can all be applied and optimized using JSM. In this third installment, we cover the vital topic of customer management. You will learn:
- The importance of understanding the customer's perspective and requirements
- How to best use JSM for customer management—from portal design to automation and beyond
- How to use JSM to empower your Shift Left—an integrated knowledge base, dynamic forms, intelligent queues, and more
- How to measure customer management for reporting and data-driven decision making
From Project to Product: Leaders, Here's What It Means to YouCprime
Project to product is all the rage these days. You, your boss, or your company are already talking about this. Heck, your group has been "agile" for years now, but this next phase seems to just be a repackaging of that.
In this webinar, Anne Steiner, Chief Product Coach at Cprime, gets into Project to Product from the leader's perspective. We explore "why we should care" and "what this really means". Then, we deep dive into the following keys to leadership success in driving this change:
1) Your help, involvement, and willingness to influence change is critical. Team-level change isn't enough and will yield limited benefits.
2) You need more than just engineering/IT buy-in to be successful. It takes the whole enterprise.
3) Product management is a thing. We'll learn what it is, how it is different from project management, and why it is critical to market domination and product success.
Lastly, we'll leave you with some tips for success that will guide you in driving change whether you sit at the manager, director, VP, or C-level.
Using a Service Catalog and CMDB to Standardize Change Management in Jira Ser...Cprime
A streamlined and optimized ITSM practice offers tremendous benefits to your IT teams and your entire organization. But, the vital ITSM practice of change management can still be challenging for many.
In this webinar, we take those ideas a step further by incorporating a service catalog and configuration management database as tools to help standardize the change management process and further minimize disruptions.
When you log off, you’ll understand:
-The role of a Service Catalog in ITSM
-How to create and curate an effective Service Catalog
-How to build and manage a Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
-How to best leverage CMDB for service improvement
6 Common Challenges RTEs Face & How to Solve ThemCprime
Release Train Engineers (RTEs) have tremendous responsibility in a scaled Agile environment. After all Agile Release Trains (ARTs) can’t steer themselves.
But, RTEs also face significant challenges along the way. Learn common challenges RTEs face and how they can be overcome using SAFe® and Agile best practices, best-in-class tooling like Jira Align, and focused effort.
Learn how to solve these problems in your own organization:
- Lack of visibility into the full book of work
- Lack of visibility into how work being done by teams is contributing to strategic goals
- Lack of understanding of how much an ART can deliver over the course of a planning increment
- Visibility into the Risks and Dependencies affecting an ART
- Constant need to create and update roadmaps
- Limited availability and customizability of progress report
Enterprise Service Management Webinar Series Part 1Cprime
Enterprise Service Management (ESM) is an optimized combination of the right software solution, well-thought-out processes and workflows, and customized automation that effectively supports a customer-centric approach to each service an internal business unit undertakes.
In this three-part webinar series, we focus on those building blocks to provide a well-rounded understanding of ESM and how it can effectively uplevel your internal and external customer service processes.
In Part One of this webinar series you will learn:
- The vital importance of cultivating a customer-first mindset
- How to adjust your mindset to view your services as products
- The power of a product/service roadmap
How to Enable Change Management with Jira Service ManagementCprime
Improve your agility by moving towards automation and streamlined processes between your IT and dev teams. ITSM with Jira Service Management (JSM) can help optimize your processes and significantly reduce manual touch points, while change management minimizes risks and disruptions to your IT services.
This is the first part in a series where we cover change management with Jira Service Management in depth. Join our ITIL-certified experts to learn how to manage changes to your software or infrastructure using Jira Service Management so that you accurately understand the impact and scope of changes up and downstream.
Explore:
• How to get started with change management
• A demo of change management features in JSM
• Change management best practices and tips
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty, In...Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Exploiting Artificial Intelligence for Empowering Researchers and Faculty,
International FDP on Fundamentals of Research in Social Sciences
at Integral University, Lucknow, 06.06.2024
By Dr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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1. A Group of Agile Teams ≠
Organizational Agility
Angela Johnson, PMP, PMI-ACP, CST
Certified Scrum Trainer & Agile Transformation Coach
http://angelajohnsonscrumtrainer.com
@AgileAngela
2. Angela Johnson
PMP, PMI-ACP, CST
• 18+ years Information
Technology - traditional
SDLC and Scrum/Agile
• Facilitator PMI-MN Agile
Local Interest Group
• Based in Minneapolis,
MN
3. After the webinar…
• We will send directions to collect the PDU you will earn
from attending this webinar
• We will also send a links to the recorded webinar and
presentation slides once they are posted online
For more information, visit www.cprime.com
4. Why Agile?
Any Agile Adoption should start out by
asking, “Why do we want to use Agile”?
Being “Agile” is not the Goal!
Agile is about delivering Business Value
7. Organizational Agility
“The new goal for the
organization must be to
delight the customer.”
•“Making money” is not the
goal
•“Being agile” is not the
goal.
•“Working software” is not
the goal
•Agile, Scrum & working
software are means to
achieving the goal
8. Organizational Agility
What is Organizational Agility?
• The capacity of a company to rapidly
change or adapt in response to
changes in the market
• A high degree of organizational agility
can help a company to react
successfully to the emergence of new
competitors, the development of new
industry-changing technologies, or
sudden shifts in overall market
conditions
www.BusinessDictionary.com
9. Shared Vision or Current Reality?
Adapted from The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
10. Shared Vision or Current Reality?
Adapted from The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge
16. Potential Obstacles
New Quality Practices
• Testers are part of the team
• Tests drive coding
• Testing a user story is done within an iteration – not after
• Quality is not a role, a person or a department – it’s
everyone’s job
• Testing is not something performed by a “tester”
• Test automation is critical to long-term effectiveness
17. Potential Obstacles
Personnel Considerations
• Focus is on Cross Functional Teams
• Delivery is Value Based on the Customer
• What support or training do our teams need to make the
paradigm shift in collaboratively working in a cross
functional way?
• What happens to our individual incentives in asking
people to work in teams?
• What happens to our hiring practices in asking for cross
functional behavior and skills?
• What about career path considerations?
20. Shift in Leadership Characteristics
• Inclusive, Collaborative
• Flexible, Adaptive
• Possibly-Oriented
• Facilitative
• Self-reflective
• Courageous
• Observant
Adapted from Leadership Agility, Bill Joiner & Stephen Josephs and Action Inquiry, William Torbert
21. How Long Does this Take?
It Depends…
• Size of the Organization
• Organization Culture
• Flexibility and Adaptability
• Commitment of
Organization Leadership
• Commitment to Automation
22. A Case Study
• Privately held organization that provides contract
and support services to a worldwide franchise
• Moved from project structure to product structure
enabling faster delivery of business value
• Teams are empowered, co-located and high
performing
• Better alignment with the Business
23. 10 Reasons I Love My Job
3. Integrated teams. Product owner, QA, operations,
infrastructure, developers – we’re all on the same team.
We work together, and are committed to each other.
There is opportunity for growth. Just one month in, I can
already sense it. And many times I’ve already seen where
wins are celebrated by the entire team, and mistakes
are owned by the entire team. It’s awesome.
http://silvanolte.com/blog/2013/02/09/10-reasons-i-love-my-job/
24. 10 Reasons I Love My Job
2. Agile. Weekly sprints. Sprint goals. The ceremonies. The
daily meetings. The sprint planning. The sprint
retrospectives. The sprint board. The stickies. Weekly
deployments into Production. Having a clear sense of what
our focus is this week. Commitment to the work at hand.
Establishing a velocity and trusting in the team to perform.
Similar to feeling at home with Apple products and OS X, I
also feel incredibly at home in this environment.
http://silvanolte.com/blog/2013/02/09/10-reasons-i-love-my-job/
25. 10 Reasons I Love My Job
1. People care. This is the most important thing to me. I
work in an environment where people really care about what
they do. Shades of gray, I acknowledge, between just being
somewhere for the paycheck and having a passion for what
you do. At my new workplace, I find that people care about
what they do. To do well for their customer because it’s the
right thing to do. Because there’s a sense of pride in doing
good. I can get a paycheck anywhere. But I can only do what I
do, and with the people I do it with, where I’m at right now.
http://silvanolte.com/blog/2013/02/09/10-reasons-i-love-my-job/
26. A Case Study
The CIO’s email to me in sharing the blog post:
“One more thing. Check out this blog from one of our
developers. I can die and go to CIO heaven now.
Thanks for all you did to help us get to where we are.”
http://silvanolte.com/blog/2013/02/09/10-reasons-i-love-my-job/
It is important to note that adopting Agile should not be the goal.Agile is a philosophy or a framework to approach solving a complex problem or project.Agile is NOT a magic bullet or a silver bullet.Adopting Agile will not solve problems that the organization has today.Due to the highly transparent nature of Agile, it will expose impediments and problems that the project or organization already has but will do so very quickly.It is up to the project team and/or the leadership in an organization to decide how to address the impediments or problems exposed.
Consider the reasons survey respondents have given as an answer to “why agile”?Are these reasons necessarily the goal for their product or service?Or do Agile methods enable these organizations to achieve the goals that they have for their products and services?What are those goals? Is it to improve the quality of the user’s lives? Is it to delight their customers? Why are they in business?
For an organization to adopt agility, it takes a commitment and a cultural shift. Having a certain number of teams trained and or “rolling out agile” to all teams, does not mean that the organization is “agile”.
Steve Denning is the author of the award winning books “The Leader’s Guide to Radical Management: Re-inventing the Workplace for the 21st Century”, “The Secret Language of Leadership” and “The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling”.Denning maintains that traditional management is broken. The life expectancy of Fortune 500 firms is down to 15 year trending downward towards 5 years.Denning says that organizations need to delight their customers and that Leaders in organizations need to change from controllers of people to enablers of self-organization to bring about creative problem solving.The leadership shift needs to move from single-minded profit focus to continuous transparency and radical transparency.
What do we mean by Organizational Agility?BusinessDictionary.com defines it as: The capacity of a company to rapidly change or adapt in response to changes in the market. A high degree of organizational agility can help a company to react successfully to the emergence of new competitors, the development of new industry-changing technologies, or sudden shifts in overall market conditions.
The ideas in this slide are adapted from Peter Michael Senge.Peter Michael Senge is an American scientist and director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the author of “The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the Learning Organization.”
Note in the previous slide our organization’s Vision and its Current Reality were two different things.What thoughts do you have for achieving congruency between the Vision and Reality?A place to start may be identifying what the Obstacles or Barriers are from our Current Reality that are preventing achievement of the Vision.
Consider these Agile Team attributes in the context of Organizational Agility.If there are participants who are not familiar with these qualities and characteristics about Agile Teams, spend a few minutes discussing these, explaining how this differs from traditional project teams.What potential obstacles do you see here for your organization?
Consider the Product Owner role, ScrumMaster role and Team role in Scrum. If the organization is adopting a different agile method, such as eXtreme Programming, there are similar roles with a Coach but the Customer is also in the driver’s seat much like the Product Owner role in Scrum.What potential obstacles do you see here for your organization?
Consider the way that initiatives are funded and organized in your organization currently.Typically, funding is approved at the project level and a team is put together to satisfy that project. Scope is typically “locked down” and managed through change control, discouraging items that deviate from the baseline.With Agile, the focus is on a product, or service. The investment or funding decision is made strategically at the product level.A team remains intact, dedicated to the delivery of this product or service. The knowledge grows as the team continues to work together and their velocity, or ability to get things done each sprint, increases the longer that they are together. Scope is expected to change based on the market, the customer reactions, regulatory compliance, etc. and the framework enables the team to be able to inspect and adapt accordingly.What potential obstacles do you see here for your organization?
Consider Roles vs. a Team approach.Are we asking people to abandon their expertise and become generalists?What environment changes are needed to promote team work?What potential obstacles do you see here for your organization?
Consider Requirements gathering.In traditional projects, requirements are agreed to up front with a lengthy document detailing what is known about that.The document becomes the focus and change is controlled through a process that discourages any alterations.The agreement is that all requirements – regardless of necessity – are complete by the end of the project.With Agile methods, requirements are broken into smaller, incremental items often referred to as “User Stories”. Documentation is done but not up front. Emphasis is placed on having a discussion, a conversation and allowing the details of this requirement to emerge through that interaction. Documentation is efficient as we only need to document the results of the conversation. Change is encouraged based on customer feedback, market reactions, etc.Highest priority requirements or stories are complete every iteration releasing value earlier than the end of a project.What potential obstacles do you see here for your organization?
In agile methods such as Scrum, XP, Lean, etc. the idea is to move quality “up” in the process. QA is not a team that gets to check things at the end. We want to produce working software increments at the end of each sprint or iteration which means it has to be tested and accepted.In order to achieve this, QA is PART of the team, not a separate team. Testing becomes a function, not people. Ideally acceptance tests are identified before a line of code is written so that the code is written to pass the test, not fail it. Regression testing is performed within the sprint, not waiting until an “integration phase” to find out if there are issues. Automation is critical to increasing the efficiency of this process.Think about any paradigm shifts or potential obstacles that you see in transitioning to Agile based on your current quality structure or practices. This can be both team structure as well as technology. Are processes 100% manual?
Whatever is incented tends to be what we create more of.If we are incenting individuals to perform in a singular function, we will create more of this in our organization.What potential obstacles do you see for your organization in moving to working in an Agile way where compensation is concerned?Hiring practices?Career development?
Wehave looked at some potential obstacles and hopefully understand the Vision of where we want to be.In order to realize that Vision, we must confront our Current Reality.Consider all of the obstacles that you identified.Which of those obstacles are within your Circle of Control? If you do not have control over the item(s) in question, what is available to you or who is available to you?Is there someone or something in your Circle of Influence to be able to address the obstacle?If the obstacles falls outside of both your Circle of Control AND your Circle of Influence, what help is needed to address the obstacle so that the Vision can be realized?Items escalated to Managers and Leaders can be captured on a Backlog to be prioritized or ordered for addressing.
It may not be enough to simply identify obstacles that are preventing us from realizing our Vision and prioritizing these obstacles outside of our Circle of Control and Circle of Influence for help from senior leaders. As agile leaders, can we think a few steps ahead or outside of the current constraints to adopt more of a “solution” mindset? Ask each other “What would it take to move things more to the left – back into our circle of influence? Our circle of control? Does this require any organizational structure change? Or can it be more of a paradigm shift within the organization? What would it take for you as leaders and managers to be empowered to address the identified obstacles? To achieve the Vision?In what order do we want to tackle these obstacles?
What types of characteristics do our leaders need to bring about true Organizational Agility?Inclusive, Collaborative: ability to see that decision-making requires not just getting others to see your own point of view, but requires thinking things through WITH others expanding and enhancing that point of view through dialog.Flexible, Adaptive: the capacity to adjust one’s beliefs, presuppositions and action strategies in the face of new insights and informationPossibility-Oriented: the capacity to “think outside the box”, to see possibilities where apparently none seem to exist; to try on alternative perspectives in order to generate new insightsFacilitative: the ability to let go of being overtly in control. To be able to intervene through declaration of vision and then through indirect control of environment and process rather than only through directive manipulation and management – managing the principles and practices rather than managing the peopleSelf-reflective: the ability to take a perspective on oneself, BEING the change one wishes to see manifest in an organizationCourageous: the capacity to push oneself beyond one’s comfort and beyond one’s current belief systems in the interest of doing better, both personally and organizationallyObservant: the ability to sense situations that may require change or involvement
Many may wonder “how long does it take for companies to transform with Organizational Agility”?The short answer is “It Depends”.The long answer is: What is the size of the organization? Larger organizations will take longer to transform based on the size, layers and complexity whereas smaller organizations may be able to adapt more quickly with fewer people, fewer hierarchical layers, etc.It depends on the company’s culture. How adaptable and flexible are its people? Its leaders? Its operations? Its infrastructure?How committed is the organization’s leadership? Are they aligned in their vision to adopt agile as the way that they work or do they see it as a fad or some separate thing they have to do? Are they providing employees with the training, coaching and mentoring that they need to adopt a more collaborative way of working together? Are they committed to making the structural changes needed to be able to respond to change more quickly and to deliver business value faster?What about the commitment to automation? Is testing all 100% manual? What commitment is there to explore automated scripts and packages? What training do employees need to work with this? Is any hardware or software necessary to purchase to adopt test automation?
A few years ago I coached an organization through the beginning stages of their agile transformation.It was a small, privately held company that provides contract support services and IT services to a worldwide food franchise.During the transformation, a number of changes were made in the commitment to delivering high quality business value to franchise owners quickly.The IT approach to initiatives moved from project focused to product focused, with an identified, empowered Product Owner in place facilitating the customer needs to the teams executing them.A number of functional management positions were eliminated with those people joining teams or adopting new positions in the organization where they could add value.The teams were trained in the skills that they needed to begin working more collaboratively in a self-organizing way.Teams were co-located with plenty of “real estate” to collaborate on white boards, hold discussions, post Vision statements, Roadmaps, Kanbans or Taskboards, etc.The business got actively involved participating in high level planning, working with Product Owners, attending reviews and demonstrations and providing rapid feedback.Areas of the business also adopted Scrum as the way that they managed their work.Potential contracts and business was ranked on an Opportunity Backlog with visibility given to which ones were in pursuit during a given Sprint and which ones closed during the timebox. Team members gathered in their room for a Daily Scrum to sync and discuss how they were tracking to the Sprint Goal.
Fast forward to a few months ago as I began working with a local client on a new transformation.In a very serendipitous twist for me, I discovered that the new client does business with the client I coached a few years ago.This enabled us to open up the communication channels between the organizations and have their leadership ask candid questions of those who have “been in the trenches” and worked through a number of the considerations we’ve raised here today.The CIO of my former client shared a blog post with me that one of his employees had written and I’d like to share an excerpt of that with you here today.
Although this is a great endorsement for Agile, please read the full blog where Daniel describes their use of automation and technical practices that are enhancing their agility.Team members are truly trusted and empowered to come up with the “how” they deliver “what” the business has asked of them. Which in his team’s case is pretty challenging given the high volume of credit card transactions they are processing for a worldwide franchise.
The additional things that were satisfying for me to learn as a coach is that a few years after I rolled off of this engagement, the great things we started are still going on – they have become the way this company works.Turn over has been very low and people love their jobs.
This is not the end of the story. This is only a point in time in this organization’s agility journey.This CIO will tell you we had our ups and downs. There were times he wondered if he was doing the right thing as it seemed like things get a little worse before they get better.Their commitment to continuous improvement and knowing that if they overcame the impediments this way of working was exposing would allow them to do great things and deliver business value for their franchise owners.