SAFe case study vandana sinha temenos APGI 2018 conference Pune India

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Temenos+Agility
APGI Conference, Pune
18-19 May, 2018
SAFe Implementation
A Case Study
May 2018
About
Your Context
Our Expertise
We specialize in deep immersion into your organization’s context
and agile fluency to chalk out an effective Agile Transformation
strategy.
We use Lean Agile Methodologies, Systems Thinking and
Temenos Shared Vision & Leadership Transformation models to
produce a healthy and sustainable organization culture.
Our customers partner with us to adopt business engineering
approaches to increase business agility while reducing
operational costs.
Please visit our website https://www.visiontemenos.com to
know more.

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Vandana Sinha
VP and Senior Transformation Consultant
In her 22 years of professional experience where she has led several complex, multi-year
transformation programs for Fortune 100 customers in Europe and US in the Retail, Manufacturing
and Retail Banking domain.
She has also led the TCS Agile Initiative which is one of the 5 CEO strategic initiates for execution
excellence in TCS. In this role, she was responsible for transforming TCS to help bring agility to the
TCS operations and its customer business. As a part of this role, she has coached and mentored
several Agile programs across all dimensions – product management, leadership, facilitation and
team development.
She is an electrical engineer by qualification and holds an Executive Management degree from the
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
She is passionate about bringing about change in teams and organizations through a people-focused
approach to Organization Development. She is a firm believer in the power of individuals and teams
and passionate about inspiring people to bring about positive change in their professional and
personal lives.
She continues to get inspired by her personal life that revolves around her spouse, 2 sons and 2 dogs.
The Situation | Teams and Dependencies
Team
B
Team D
Team
C
Team E
Team F
Team G
Team I
Team J Team K
Team G
Team H
Team 6
Team 4
Team 2
Team 3
Team
5
Backend
Client Client
Backend
US Teams on MT India Teams on IST
Team A
Team 1
• 13.5 hrs difference
– not able to
participate in
Scrum-of-Scrums
• Dependency
Management

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Go back to
ART
characterstics
▪ Team of Teams that are
dependent on each other
▪ They plan together and
commit together
▪ All teams aligned to the
train goals
Recommendation
Team
B
Team D
Team
C
Team E
Team F
Team G
Team I
Team J Team K
Team G
Team H
Team 6
Team 4
Team 2
Team 3
Team
5
Backend
Client Client
Backend
US Teams on MT India Teams on IST
Team A
Team 1

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Challenges
with new
design
Ceremonies – SoS, System
Demo, Planning
▪ MT morning – overlap hours only for
the ceremonies
▪ 3 Day planning – Main location
alternating between India and US
•Client and BE
Train PI
Planning Day 1
for teams @ US
Day 1 9am
MT
Day 1 9am
MT
•Client Train PI
Planning Day 1
for teams @
India
Day 2 9am
IST
Day 2 9am
IST •Client and BE
Train PI
Planning Day 2
for teams @ US
Day 2 9am
MT
Day 2 9am
MT
•Client Train PI
Planning Day 2
for teams @
India
Day 3 9am
IST
Day 3 9am
IST
Distributed PI Planning | Plan Together. Commit Together.
Send Following
1. BO and PM Vision,
Any other recordings
2. Draft Plans
3. Management Review
output
Send Following
1. Draft Plans
2. Any suggested changes for
other team plans and
corresponding changes
possible in the India plan
Send Following
1. Finalized US Plans
2. Their Vote of
Confidence output and
Planning
Retrospective output
1. India Client final plan available
2. They consolidate their VoC,
ROAM and do their
retrospective and send to RTE
3. All published for everyone to
see
1 3
2
5 7
4
6Team Members
representing the
India teams to
present the base
plan they have
prepared

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Lessons Learnt ▪ When in doubt, go back to the
principles
▪ Context important
▪ Share the load
▪ Senior Management Support essential
Questions
?