Insights from the Trenches - A thriving global community

SAFe Community is rapidly evolving, from expert rounds such as SPCTs, to voice of customers, from customer stories and tooling providers, following the core value of "relentless improvement".

SPCT Day

Following the core value of "Relentless Improvement", the global SPCTs have gather on day 1 to discuss how to evolve the framework and improve it. We have organized into 8 break-out teams to examine the current situation and explored options how to make it more practical, user friendly and meaningful, based on customer's feedbacks.

• Who are SAFe? Practice Consultant-T (SPCT)?

SPCTs are among the most highly regarded SAFe? experts in the world. SPCTs are the most sought-after SAFe Trainers, SAFe Trusted Advisors, and SAFe Transformation Architects among enterprises seeking to improve their methods of working in pursuit of Business Agility.

Voice of Customer Exchange

During Voice of Customer day, global large organizations have came together to provide feedbacks, share their challenges on some most recent SAFe development, especially on the subjects of:

a. how to better connect business value;

b. how to evolve tooling support by helping teams in their daily business;

c. how to improve effective of training by applying small batches

Furthermore, Lufthansa, UBS, Vodafone, AstraZeneca, Mercedes and more had lunch exchange over challenges during transformation.

Sharing the Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) Experiences at Allianz

My personal highlight was to work with Lucia and share our 3 year evolution of implementing LPM at Allianz Business Master Platform.

Chat with RTE Radhika during Agile Amped Podcast

The Agile Amped podcast shares stories of bringing agility and humanity into the workplace – and beyond. Inspiring and provocative voices speak on topics from technology to business to living change. It was honored to be invited and support my colleague RTE Radhika to exchange thoughts about the role and how the latest product launch of SAFe can support organizations in day-to-day work.

Continuously be Inspired by European thought leader Ian Spence - A jargon-free LPM

Ian specializes in large-scale agile adoptions and practice-based organizational change. He has worked with 100s of projects to introduce iterative and agile practices in fields as diverse as government, telecommunications, finance, and internet start-ups, working with development organization of 5 – 5,000 people.

Apply Flow Framework with Dr. Mik Kersten

Dr. Kerstin pioneered the integration of development tools with Agile and DevOps as part of his Computer Science PhD at the University of British Columbia. Founding Tasktop out of that research, Mik has written over one million lines of open source code that are still in use today, Mik’s experiences working with some of the largest digital transformations in the world has led him to identify the critical disconnect between business leaders and technologists.

Since then, Mik has been working on creating new tools and a new framework - the Flow Framework? - for connecting software value stream networks and enabling the shift from project to product. Mik lives with his family in Vancouver, Canada, and travels globally, sharing his vision for transforming how software is built, and is the author of Project To Product, a book that helps IT organizations survive and thrive in the Age of Software.

Getting insights of Ultra Agility with Pingan Life

It was a honor to host Alex, my SPCT peers from Pingan China, to learn about how ultra agility works at Pingan, at one of the the world's most innovative insurance company. Where Business is driving transformation with relentless measurement of outcomes, unlike in Europe, where often IT is driving transformational endeavors.

Unleash The Power of Managers to Enable Transformations with ALE

• Could your middle managers be the missing piece in your organizational puzzle?? ? ? ?
• Are you harnessing their full potential to drive change and innovation???

Imagine unlocking a treasure trove of potential that lies within your middle management – the key to skyrocketing team engagement and mastering the art of change in a Lean-Agile world.??

But how exactly can you empower these pivotal leaders? What strategies can turn your middle managers into catalysts for success in your Lean-Agile journey??

One practice introduced was ALE: authenticity, Logic and Empathy

5 Leadership Personality Traits for Accelerating Value Delivery

In today's ever-evolving business landscape, Lean-Agile leadership is pivotal to successful SAFe transformations and accelerated value delivery. This is an insightful session that delves into the Big Five Traits: Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism.

Discover what these personality traits are, why they are important when understanding and improving? leadership, and how they can be leveraged to drive thought leadership, foster innovation, and to better organize around value to create successful evolutions and transformations, with an understanding of the interplay between Lean-Agile leadership and personality traits, along with actionable insights to enhance your leadership skills and accelerate value delivery within your company.

It is impossible to summarize all impressions within the few days, but nothing is more exciting by applying practice in real life and help organizations to achieve business outcomes, sustainably.

Exchange learning with Thought leaders at Vodafone

It was great to see Silke, head of LPM of Vodafone and Alena, head of LACE, and newly become iSPCT, to exchange learnings about LPM and engagement models. Looking forward to future deep dives.

Where is the next Summit in Europe?

Looking forward to the next SAFe Summit from 7th to 10th April at Sorrento Italy!

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