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Recorded webinars and deep dives from ICON's SAFe Fellows and Agile experts, SAFe practices, Lean Portfolio Management, and live Q&A sessions, ready to watch anytime.
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Agile for Leaders - Episode 1 | Agile: Why We Need It
Leadership fads come and go, but Agile has endured beyond fads and has become the de facto standard for how value gets delivered and how work gets done. In Episode 1 of this video series, ICON Coach, Dan James, gives an executive summary of the reasons competitive organizations seek to transform to Agile values, principles, and practices.
Agile for Leaders - Episode 2 | Agile: What It Is
In Episode 2 of this video series, ICON Coach, Dan James, cuts to the chase on what Agile actually is, which may come as a surprise to many leaders. If your goal is to scale Business Agility throughout your organization, this video will help you understand exactly what you’re scaling. That understanding is the prerequisite to the adoption of any popular framework. This video series will help you build leadership support and allow leaders to recognize the ROI that follows a transformation.
A Deep Dive into the 4 Dimensions of the SAFe® CDP | Part 4: Release on Demand
Are you pressured to deliver high-quality products quickly but often fall behind, unable to meet consumer demand? Maybe there is too much rework slowing things down. Or maybe conflict is arising from the fact that your goals and incentives are vastly different from the other teams’. Whatever your concern, don’t worry! There’s a way for all business, development, and operations teams to work together in harmony. Gartner describes it as strategic: “In the future, we will no longer have a divided conversation between agile, DevOps and project teams. It will be a product-centric value-stream conversation with a singular focus on customer value.” —Gartner, Predicts 2020: Agile and DevOps Are Key to Digital Transformation Join ICON Agility Services and Scaled Agile, Inc. as we take a deep dive into the SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline and how to apply DevOps effectively to your value streams. In this 4-part webinar series, you will learn how to set your company up for success as we take a close look into each of the four dimensions, including: Part 1: Continuous Exploration Part 2: Continuous Integration Part 3: Continuous Deployment Part 4: Release on Demand Join our panelists for a 30-minute discussion followed by a 15-minute Q&A with the audience. By the end of the series, you will know how to: - Align business and technology on measurable outcomes - Set all teams up for success - Eliminate rework by focusing on quality - Build faster with fewer defects and vulnerabilities This series is for everyone in the value stream, including technical, non-technical, and leadership roles.
A Deep Dive into the 4 Dimensions of the SAFe CDP | Part 3: Continuous Deployment
Are you pressured to deliver high-quality products quickly but often fall behind, unable to meet consumer demand? Maybe there is too much rework slowing things down. Or maybe conflict is arising from the fact that your goals and incentives are vastly different from the other teams’. Whatever your concern, don’t worry! There’s a way for all business, development, and operations teams to work together in harmony. Gartner describes it as strategic: “In the future, we will no longer have a divided conversation between agile, DevOps, and project teams. It will be a product-centric value-stream conversation with a singular focus on customer value.” —Gartner, Predicts 2020: Agile and DevOps Are Key to Digital Transformation Join ICON Agility Services and Scaled Agile, Inc. as we take a deep dive into the SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline and how to apply DevOps effectively to your value streams. In this 4-part webinar series, you will learn how to set your company up for success as we take a close look into each of the four dimensions, including: Part 1: Continuous Exploration Part 2: Continuous Integration Part 3: Continuous Deployment Part 4: Release on Demand Join our panelists for a 30-minute discussion followed by a 15-minute Q&A with the audience. By the end of the series, you will know how to: - Align business and technology on measurable outcomes - Set all teams up for success - Eliminate rework by focusing on quality - Build faster with fewer defects and vulnerabilities This series is for everyone in the value stream, including technical, non-technical, and leadership roles.
A Deep Dive into the 4 Dimensions of the SAFe® CDP | Part 2: Continuous Integration
Are you pressured to deliver high-quality products quickly but often fall behind, unable to meet consumer demand? Maybe there is too much rework slowing things down. Or maybe conflict is arising from the fact that your goals and incentives are vastly different from the other teams’. Whatever your concern, don’t worry! There’s a way for all business, development, and operations teams to work together in harmony. Gartner describes it as strategic: “In the future, we will no longer have a divided conversation between agile, DevOps, and project teams. It will be a product-centric value-stream conversation with a singular focus on customer value.” —Gartner, Predicts 2020: Agile and DevOps Are Key to Digital Transformation Join ICON Agility Services and Scaled Agile, Inc. as we take a deep dive into the SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline and how to apply DevOps effectively to your value streams. In this 4-part webinar series, you will learn how to set your company up for success as we take a close look into each of the four dimensions, including: Part 1: Continuous Exploration Part 2: Continuous Integration Part 3: Continuous Deployment Part 4: Release on Demand Join our panelists for a 30-minute discussion followed by a 15-minute Q&A with the audience. By the end of the series, you will know how to: - Align business and technology on measurable outcomes - Set all teams up for success - Eliminate rework by focusing on quality - Build faster with fewer defects and vulnerabilities This series is for everyone in the value stream, including technical, non-technical, and leadership roles.
A Deep Dive into the 4 Dimensions of the SAFe CDP | Part 1: Continuous Exploration
Are you pressured to deliver high-quality products quickly but often fall behind, unable to meet consumer demand? Maybe there is too much rework slowing things down. Or maybe conflict is arising from the fact that your goals and incentives are vastly different from the other teams’. Whatever your concern, don’t worry! There’s a way for all business, development, and operations teams to work together in harmony. Gartner describes it as strategic: “In the future, we will no longer have a divided conversation between agile, DevOps and project teams. It will be a product-centric value-stream conversation with a singular focus on customer value.” —Gartner, Predicts 2020: Agile and DevOps Are Key to Digital Transformation Join ICON Agility Services and Scaled Agile, Inc. as we take a deep dive into the SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline and how to apply DevOps effectively to your value streams. In this 4-part webinar series, you will learn how to set your company up for success as we take a close look into each of the four dimensions, including: Part 1: Continuous Exploration Part 2: Continuous Integration Part 3: Continuous Deployment Part 4: Release on Demand Join our panelists for a 30-minute discussion followed by a 15-minute Q&A with the audience. By the end of the series, you will know how to: - Align business and technology on measurable outcomes - Set all teams up for success - Eliminate rework by focusing on quality - Build faster with fewer defects and vulnerabilities This series is for everyone in the value stream, including technical, non-technical, and leadership roles.
Top 5 Post-Pandemic Business Problems & How To Solve Them With Business Agility
The COVID-19 crisis has posed numerous challenges to businesses and in an effort to overcome these burdens, employers are discovering how to become more Agile. Agile businesses respond quickly to opportunities or threats, whether internal (e.g. failing business operations) or external (e.g. shifts in trends or competitive markets). Coming out of the pandemic, companies find themselves facing another 'new normal', resulting in the call for the latest future-fit strategies to continue to be adaptive, creative, and resilient. Adaptive companies are going to find the need to explore frameworks and techniques that heighten their Business Agility such as SAFe, DevSecOps, Design Thinking, OKRs, and Lean/Agile practices. By pursuing an Agile Business Model at an organizational level, you can give your business the adaptability necessary to both survive and thrive in this unprecedented environment. In this lean coffee style webinar, Doug Less & TJ Johnson will review the top 5 post-pandemic problems and help you solve them by answering your most pressing questions. Potential topics range from engaging and inspiring remote employees to shifting your target market. Participants voted on the key issues their businesses face in this post-pandemic culture.
Lean Coffee with ICON's SAFe Fellows: Advanced Topics in Enterprise SAFe (Feb 19, 2021)
In this Lean Coffee, SAFe Fellows Kathy Marshak & Charlene Cuenca discuss: - Best practices on introducing LPM to Leadership - Tools and best practices for managing dependencies in the Full Agile environment; Solution ART capabilities with multiple ARTs - The addition of Hardware Development in SAFe 5.1 - How to handle dependencies when ARTs did not start at the same time - Comparison of SAFe's old "feature" and "component" teams to the Team - Topologies team types - How to best get moving on the implementation of the portfolio canvas - Widely accepted entrance criteria for an epic to come into the Portfolio Kanban Funnel - Value Stream related updates in SAFe 5.1
In Practice: Lean Portfolio Management Guardrails (Feb 4, 2021)
Using the four LPM guardrails defined in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), you can improve the alignment of strategy and day-to-day actions that affect value delivery. SAFe Fellow Kathy Marshak of ICON and Mark Des Biens, Senior Product Specialist at Targetprocess, discuss and demonstrate the four LPM guardrails in action.
Lean Coffee with ICON's SAFe Experts: Optimize Your Agile Release Trains (Jan 29, 2021)
Learn from the expertise and experience of ICON SAFe Fellow Kathy Marshak and SPCT Matt Aaron! In this Lean Coffee, we discuss: - Tips for effectively running multiple PI Planning events concurrently, and how to handle teams or individuals that need to participate with all trains - The best ways for Solutions Architects to engage the train and optimize interactions - How to scale Shared Services across multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs) - Advice for maturing the Lean Portfolio Management of one ART’s operational value stream when the rest of the organization is still on traditional annual project-based budgeting - What metrics to use besides PPM - Common mistakes ARTs make and strategies to avoid or manage those challenges - How an RTE would facilitate design thinking sessions
Lean Coffee with ICON's SAFe Experts: How to Get Started with SAFe (Jan 8, 2021)
Are you wondering if SAFe is right for your situation or how to get started? In this Lean Coffee, SAFe Fellow Kathy Marshak & SPCT Matt Aaron discuss: - What to do with assigned leaders who haven't had training and don't believe in SAFe, yet have been given the role of "Technical Product Manager" - How to overcome "middle management" leadership pushback - Strategies to sunset/uninstall old ways of working when launching SAFe - What to do when leadership does not address "system' issues (e.g., managerial over-reach) - How to engage all team members when remote - Characteristics of a good Release Train Engineer (RTE) - Practical tips for conducting a Value Stream Workshop
SAFe Summit 2020: Strategy to Execution - Business Owners are the Key by Charlene Cuenca
We must break down silos to achieve Business Agility within the Lean Enterprise together. The business plays a key role in this journey. Although the role of the Business Owner is a first-class citizen and an essential part of the framework, many times they are an afterthought. But how do we engage and integrate the business from the outset? In this talk, you will learn more about how to do this based-on successful, real world implementations.
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