See moreThis webinar series addresses aspects of what it takes to be be effective in Agile at Scale. Each session in the series highlights how we do work differently. Each session in the series is about 50 minutes in length.
Webinar sessionsWhat is Agile at scale? The different approaches to achieve itApril 17, 2018 Most organizations are trying to scale Agile. But what is scaled Agile? Is it making projects bigger? Or just spreading Agile across the organization. This is an important distinction and both approaches are necessary at different times. This talk describes what is necessary to do whether you are looking to have more capacity to work on a project (scaling Agile) or wanting to achieve Agile in an already large project (Agile at Scale). It will then go on to describe how the two most popular approaches – SAFe and LeSS – attend to these challenges. A quick overview of FLEX (FLow for Enterprise Transformation) will also be discussed. Agile Product ManagementMay 15, 2018 This webinar provides an overview of how Agile Product Management (APM) helps achieve business agility – the quick realization of business value, predictably, sustainably and with high quality. APM is more than how to take epics to features to stories. In fact, epics are an old artifact that we believe should no longer be used. APM should start at the beginning – what is the mission of the organization. Then continue to the objectives to achieve this, the strategies to guide them and the initiatives that spring from the objectives. Only then do we get something that defines what we’re going to work. At that point the creation of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) and Minimum Business Increments (MBIs) are required. But these should not occur in isolation. We must consider the relationship between the business offerings we already have and the business capabilities on which they are built. At his point we’re ready to give the MVPs/MBIs to technology in a concerted manner that can guide us to realize business value quickly. APM bridges the gap between the business focus and technology. This webinar will provide key concepts required as well as some takeaways you can use immediately. Collaboration and Dependency Management EventJune 5, 2018 If you are familiar with SAFe, you know that much of its success centers around the program increment planning event. There are many good things about the event.
This webinar offers a take on this by focusing on these issues with something we call the Collaboration and Dependency Management Event
FLEX as an operating modelTo be rescheduled. An operating model is a representation of how an organization works and is defined and used in order to help make decisions throughout the business development process. A framework is a set of roles, events, artifacts, and the rules that bind them. While frameworks are intended to have practices added to them, the frameworks themselves are mostly immutable. Operating models, on the other hand, are designed to help organizations create their own roles, events, artifacts and the rules that bind them and have these evolve over time as the organization evolves. Operating models should have the following:
FLow for Enterprise Transformation is Net Objectives’ approach to agility at both mid and large scale. It goes beyond framework by being an operating model. As an operating model it provide guidance for:
This webinar discusses how FLEX can be used on its own or to wrap frameworks such as SAFe or LeSS to enable them to be more effective. Agile across multiple teamsTo be scheduled Many people are looking at adopting SAFe or LeSS when all they really need to do is know how to manage a few teams efficiently in working together. This talk provides 4 case studies to show how this can be done for organizations as large as 300 people.
Each of these case studies teaches us lessons about how to coordinate teams from a business Agility perspective. Using Guardrails to align your people across the organizationTo be scheduled The Guardrails for Lean-Agile transformation are a set of agreements and questions to help the organization assure it is staying on course in its transformation and to be able to make decisions at a local level that are aligned to the rest of the value stream. The agreements are to:
Agreeing how to work with each other is more effective than agreeing to follow a framework. It enables both the creation of a better organization and self-organization with it. Using Test-First to obtain clear requirementsTo be scheduled Scrum as Example: Rethinking Scrum as a frameworkJuly 2018 Becoming an effective Scrum Master: The essential ingredients for supporting new Scrum teamsTo be scheduled Agile templates and practices useful for new Agile teamsTo be scheduled Description TBD. |