Attendees gain an understanding of the Lean-Agile mindset and why it’s an essential foundation for transformation. They’ll also get practical advice on building high performing, multi-vendor Agile teams and programs, managing technology investments in Lean flow, acquiring solutions with Agile contracting, launching the program, and planning and delivering value using SAFe. Attendees will learn how specific leadership behaviors can drive successful organizational change in government.

We tout the business results of applying SAFe and learn the principles from great sources like Don Reinertsen’s book, The Principles of Product Development Flow. But how can we connect the dots from the economics to the practices we want to apply and the decisions we need to make? In this workshop we use scenarios, in story problem format, and apply real numbers to demonstrate the value of the principles in action.

This course teaches the Lean-Agile Principles and practices of SAFe 5. You’ll learn how to execute and release value through Agile Release Trains, how to build an Agile Portfolio, and how to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise.

The SAFe ART Quickstart reduces lead-time by quickly getting the ART launched and into executing and learning. The Quickstart consists of three parts: preparation, SAFe for Teams training, and PI Planning.

During this one-day workshop, you will be guided through planning, preparation, and execution of a three-part Inspect and Adapt event: PI System Demo, Quantitative Assessment, and Problem Solving Workshop.

During this one-day workshop, you will learn principles and practices related to the key Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) collaborations and explore how to apply them to your context.

In this one-day workshop, you will accelerate your organization’s adoption of Lean-Agile practices, while increasing the likelihood and degree of achievable, sustainable business results.

During this one-day workshop, you will learn how to identify your organization’s value streams and then explore and test different potential Agile Release Train (ART) designs that are optimized for the flow of value. With this understanding, we will help you pick one value stream and one ART to serve as the starting vehicle for the journey. Next, you will learn how to create a plan to launch the ART and develop a roadmap for launching more ARTs and value streams.

The Agile Scrum Boot Camp & Simulation will teach participants key Agile principles and Scrum practices and how to implement them into an existing or future software project as soon as they are back on the job. The training will cover common obstacles and how to avoid them, for example, recognizing problems in a sprint and handling situations where teams revert back to traditional approaches.

While the roots of Agile Development and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) are in software development, the principles of Lean and Agile are generally applicable for Hardware/Product Development as well as Embedded Software. This ‘trifecta’ of software, embedded code and hardware constitutes the majority of today’s most complex systems… but hardware teams are often uncertain how to best apply their craft as part of an agile team.