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Learn how Airbus used SAFe to improve its operations, how value streams behave in a large solution environment how to conduct I & A for large solution trains and more.

Learn how Airbus used SAFe to improve its operations, how value streams behave in a large solution environment how to conduct I & A for large solution trains and more.

Learn how Airbus used SAFe to improve its operations, how value streams behave in a large solution environment how to conduct I & A for large solution trains and more.
19:2918/12/2019
(Bonus): Global Summit 2019: Part 6 - Joe Vallone and Scott Frost talk Portfolio Engineering

(Bonus): Global Summit 2019: Part 6 - Joe Vallone and Scott Frost talk Portfolio Engineering

Learn the meaning behind why there is no Portfolio Engineer role in Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and how LPM is facilitated.
21:2703/12/2019
(Bonus): Global Summit 2019: Part 5 - Joe Vallone with Malte Kumlehn - SAP

(Bonus): Global Summit 2019: Part 5 - Joe Vallone with Malte Kumlehn - SAP

Learn how to integrate SAFe into a large ERP system to achieve business agility and the value of automation in these implementations
17:3719/11/2019
(Bonus): Global Summit 2019: Part 4- Melissa Reeve and Dwayne Stroman discuss SAFe + Marketing

(Bonus): Global Summit 2019: Part 4- Melissa Reeve and Dwayne Stroman discuss SAFe + Marketing

Learn the why and the how of applying the principles of SAFe to a marketing organization. Melissa Reeve, SPC and Dwayne Stroman, SPCT discuss the role modifications and correlations needed as well as success and anti-patterns of SAFe + Marketing.
19:2314/11/2019
(Bonus) Global Summit 2019: Part 3 – Joe Vallone and Don Reinertson discuss the financial impact of WSJF

(Bonus) Global Summit 2019: Part 3 – Joe Vallone and Don Reinertson discuss the financial impact of WSJF

Join Joe Vallone, SAFe Fellow and SPCT, and Don Reinertsen, author of Principles of Product Development Flow, as they discuss how to apply WSJF in a SAFe context using dollars, not just Fibonacci numbers, and how to involve finance in WSJF conversations.
12:5414/11/2019
Continuous Learning, Design Thinking and Customer Centricity

Continuous Learning, Design Thinking and Customer Centricity

Learn how continuous learning helps leaders lead the change, how one organization embraced a culture of continuous learning, how design thinking drives innovation and suggestions for becoming more empathetic with the customer.
22:2606/11/2019
(Bonus) Global Summit 2019: Part 2 – Joe Vallone and Brian Tucker on People Patterns

(Bonus) Global Summit 2019: Part 2 – Joe Vallone and Brian Tucker on People Patterns

A conversation between SAFe Fellow, Joe Vallone and newly minted SAFe Fellow, Brian Tucker, talking about patterns they see forming within the people, around teams, program layer, even up at portfolio, and how these patterns are the building blocks, the fundamentals of how everything gets put together.
10:5631/10/2019
(Bonus) Global Summit 2019: Part 1 – Interview with Keynote Speaker Jade Simmons

(Bonus) Global Summit 2019: Part 1 – Interview with Keynote Speaker Jade Simmons

From our 2019 Global Summit, we get up close and personal with our motivational keynote speaker, Jade Simmons, who moved our audience while teaching them how to “Move like a Maverick.”
09:3030/10/2019
Unlocking data's value, quantifying the impact of choices in SAFe, WSJF and Monte Carlo simulations

Unlocking data's value, quantifying the impact of choices in SAFe, WSJF and Monte Carlo simulations

Learn how assuming variability and preserving options helps unlock the value of data, how to quantify the impact of choices in SAFe. We’ll also answer questions around how deep to go with WSJF and using Monte Carlo simulations to predict epic completion rates.
26:4322/10/2019
Everything architecture!  The evolution of Architecture & SAFe + Architect enablers

Everything architecture! The evolution of Architecture & SAFe + Architect enablers

Learn how Enterprise Architecture is evolving, how one company’s success patterns integrating Architecture when implementing SAFe and how to allocate capacity for Architecture enablers.
17:4708/10/2019
Intel & business agility using data, Value Stream Optimization with DevOps, DevOps and SAFe questions.

Intel & business agility using data, Value Stream Optimization with DevOps, DevOps and SAFe questions.

Learn how Intel is achieving business agility by streamlining data, as well as implementing Agile and DevOps.  Hear how optimizing value streams helped an organization and answer questions about incorporating DevOps into a SAFe transformation.
19:3624/09/2019
DoD uses AI for background checks, government agencies using SAFe, and remote problem solving workshops

DoD uses AI for background checks, government agencies using SAFe, and remote problem solving workshops

Learn how the Department of Defense is using artificial intelligence and SAFe to reduce queue lengths for background checks, and how a government agency transformed itself from a lagging to a leading organization. We’ll also be addressing how to run remote problem solving workshops, along with how to measure the impact of an Agile Release Train on the organization.
23:2610/09/2019
Manager responsibilities in SAFe, best practices for leadership engagement, PI System Demos and more

Manager responsibilities in SAFe, best practices for leadership engagement, PI System Demos and more

Learn the six responsibilities of managers in an agile organization, success patterns for rolling out a SAFe transformation. We’ll also be addressing the difference between System Demo and PI system demo, along with how to estimate Epics and Features.
23:2227/08/2019
Management review, accelerating release cadence, Solution Roadmaps and more

Management review, accelerating release cadence, Solution Roadmaps and more

Learn how a media provider in the Nordics is using SAFe to keep up with market changes, how one organization moved from an annual planning based cadence to a more Agile planning cadence. We’ll also be addressing the role of the management review meeting and how to avoid antipatterns when developing PI and Solution Roadmaps.
13:4013/08/2019
Lean-Agile UX, Role of the PO, PM, servant leadership and more!

Lean-Agile UX, Role of the PO, PM, servant leadership and more!

Listeners will learn the benefits of adopting Lean-Agile UX into SAFe and how to balance the roles of the PO, PM and Business Owners. We’ll also be addressing how servant leadership differs from traditional leadership and common antipatterns when writing PI Objectives
15:5431/07/2019
Lean Portfolio Management and SAFe, Lean-Agile budgeting and more

Lean Portfolio Management and SAFe, Lean-Agile budgeting and more

Learn how SAFe is enabling smart devices to get smarter and examples on how SAFe is being used to enable Lean Portfolio Management. You will also learn about the role of systems architects in SAFe and about lean-agile budgeting.
22:3816/07/2019
2019 European SAFe Summit Recap, Part 2 - Welcome to the Age of Software!

2019 European SAFe Summit Recap, Part 2 - Welcome to the Age of Software!

Hear about Dean Leffingwell's keynote presentation at the 2019 European SAFe Summit - Digital Disruption is Dead: Welcome to the Age of Software!
16:4302/07/2019
2019 European SAFe Summit Recap - Companies changing the world, one PI at a time

2019 European SAFe Summit Recap - Companies changing the world, one PI at a time

Hear SAFe Creator and Chief Methodologist opine on the customer stories he heard at the 2019 European SAFe Summit.
18:4118/06/2019
SAFe and Architecture, Value Streams, WSJF and more

SAFe and Architecture, Value Streams, WSJF and more

Learn how SAFe embraces architectural roles, the struggles around identifying value streams and the meaning behind WSJF. You will also learn the minimum an organization can implement and still call it SAFe.
18:0704/06/2019
Agility and Corporate Culture, Value of Predictability and more

Agility and Corporate Culture, Value of Predictability and more

Learn how to weave agility throughout your corporate culture, why predictability is even more important than increased production and answer listener questions around DevOps and assigning business value.
19:5406/05/2019
Leadership Buy in, Normalized Story Points and more

Leadership Buy in, Normalized Story Points and more

Learn how the US Department of Defense is using SAFe to build out a cyber-factory to defend against cyber-attacks. Understand the difference between leadership buy-in and engagement, why engagement is so much more powerful and how to get it. Hear answers to commonly asked questions around remote PI planning and normalized story points.
26:0406/05/2019