SAFe Business Agility Podcast
190 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 days ago - ★★★★★ - 62 ratingsAdvice. Firsthand experiences. Inspiring conversations. Fresh perspectives. You’ll find it all on the SAFe Business Agility podcast—your connection to all things SAFe, and a lot more.
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Stories from the Field: Coaching in Government
August 25, 2020 15:06 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MBIn this ongoing series, our customers and partners share their stories from the field about working with SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This episode features Phil Gardiner, enterprise Agile coach at SAIC (a Scaled Agile partner), who talks to us about his coaching experiences in the public sector.
Stories from the Field: Remote Experiences in Government
August 11, 2020 17:56 - 26 minutes - 37.3 MBIn this ongoing series, customers and partners share their stories from the field about working with SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This episode features Mark Byers and Dan Montgomery from Octo Consulting—a Scaled Agile partner—who share their experiences working with federal government agencies and contractors in a fully virtual environment.
Stories from the Field: Remote ART Launches at Accenture
July 28, 2020 15:06 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MBIn this series, we talk to customers about their field experiences with remote SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This episode with Scott Frost, SAFe Fellow, SPCT, and senior business agility transformation coach from Accenture, dives into a fully remote, distributed ART launch.
Stories from the Field: Remote Training at CVS Health
July 14, 2020 21:42 - 24 minutes - 34.5 MBIn this series, we talk to customers about their field experiences with remote SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This episode with Rebecca Davis, SPC5 and SAFe enterprise digital coach at CVS Health, dives into fully remote, distributed PI Planning.
Stories from the Field: Remote PI Planning at CVS Health
July 14, 2020 21:42 - 24 minutes - 34.5 MBIn this series, we talk to customers about their field experiences with remote SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This episode with Rebecca Davis, SPC5 and SAFe enterprise digital coach at CVS Health, dives into fully remote, distributed PI Planning.
The Tipping Point at Travelport
June 30, 2020 16:03 - 34 minutes - 47.5 MBListen to a candid conversation about what prompted Travelport to adopt SAFe®. Hint: it partially started with a grassroots movement. Hilla Knapke, director, enterprise transformation office, and Charles Fleet, VP of transformation share their stories, observations, and perspectives.
Stories from the Field: Remote PI Planning at Travelport
June 16, 2020 15:21 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MBIn this new series, we talk to customers about their field experiences with remote SAFe ceremonies and implementations. This episode with Hilla Knapke, director, enterprise transformation office, and Charles Fleet, VP of transformation from Travelport dives into fully remote, distributed PI Planning.
DEEP DIVE: Measuring Business Agility
June 02, 2020 15:59 - 25 minutes - 35.1 MBIn this episode of the SAFe Business Agility podcast, Melissa Reeve, SPC, and Inbar Oren, SAFe® Fellow and principal contributor to the Scaled Agile Framework®, take a deep dive into how organizations can measure their progress toward business agility.
DEEP DIVE: Measuring Business Agility
June 02, 2020 15:58In this episode of the SAFe Business Agility podcast, Melissa Reeve, SPC, and Inbar Oren, SAFe® Fellow and principal contributor to the Scaled Agile Framework®, take a deep dive into how organizations can measure their progress toward business agility.
Enterprise Strategy Formulation and Lean Portfolio Management
May 19, 2020 14:57 - 16 minutes - 23.7 MBLearn more about enterprise strategy formulation as it relates to lean portfolio management and SAFe 5.0, as well as how organizational agility gives companies flexibility to respond to unexpected global events like the coronavirus.
Team Topology
May 05, 2020 21:50 - 18 minutes - 25.8 MBIn this deep-dive episode of the SAFe Business Agility podcast, Melissa Reeve, SPC and Dean Leffingwell, Chief Methodologist for the Scaled Agile Framework, explore the correlation between the structure of business and technology teams in delivering value faster to improve business outcomes.
The Evolving Role of the PMO in the Enterprise
April 21, 2020 18:17 - 20 minutes - 29.2 MBOn today's show, listeners will learn how the PMO is evolving in the face of business agility, hear about Dean Leffingwell’s new white paper on Enterprise Strategy, and learn how to create feedback loops between strategy and execution when implementing SAFe.
Adopting Participatory Budgeting in SAFe
April 07, 2020 17:48 - 30 minutes - 42.3 MBLearn about the benefits of using participatory budgeting in the public sector, and tips for adopting participatory budgeting in an organization.
DEEP DIVE: Running Remote PIs, ARTs and Teams
March 24, 2020 18:01 - 26 minutes - 36.5 MBIn this deep-dive episode of the SAFe Business Agility podcast, Melissa Reeve, SPC and Inbar Oren, SAFe® Fellow and principal contributor to the Scaled Agile Framework®, explore what it takes to run dispersed and remote PIs, ARTs, and teams.
Customer Centricity in SAFe
March 12, 2020 16:14 - 30 minutes - 42.9 MBLearn how customer centricity ties to organizational agility how organizations are applying the mindset to their organizations, and how to find the customer in Large Solution environments.
DEEP DIVE: Journey to Organizational Agility
February 25, 2020 20:05 - 23 minutes - 32.2 MBIn this Deep Dive episode of the SAFe Business Agility podcast, Melissa Reeve, SPC and Joe Vallone, SPCT and SAFe Fellow, explore the purpose of Organizational Agility, what it is made of, and how to get it.
DEEP DIVE: Journey to Design Thinking
February 11, 2020 18:07 - 24 minutes - 33.6 MBIn this Deep Dive episode of the SAFe Business Agility podcast, Melissa Reeve, SPC and Joe Vallone, SPCT and SAFe Fellow, explore design thinking, its nuances and how organizations can take the journey from a traditional product development approach to an approach driven by Customer Centricity and Design Thinking.
Suppliers in SAFe, integrating Suppliers into a SAFe environment, Supplier Dependencies
January 28, 2020 22:06 - 19 minutes - 26.2 MBLearn how suppliers in a SAFe environment differ from Suppliers in a traditional environment, how to integrate a large number of suppliers into a SAFe transformation, what to do about supplier dependencies over which you have no control and more.
BONUS: Global Summit - Dean Leffingwell and Melissa Reeve discuss the release of SAFe 5.0
January 14, 2020 20:55 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBDean Leffingwell highlights changes to the Big Picture on 5.0, including design thinking, continuous learning culture and organizational agility.
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.
December 18, 2019 15:39 - 19 minutes - 27.2 MBLearn 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.
(Bonus): Global Summit 2019: Part 6 - Joe Vallone and Scott Frost talk Portfolio Engineering
December 03, 2019 18:24 - 21 minutes - 29.9 MBLearn the meaning behind why there is no Portfolio Engineer role in Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and how LPM is facilitated.
(Bonus): Global Summit 2019: Part 5 - Joe Vallone with Malte Kumlehn - SAP
November 19, 2019 18:01 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MBLearn how to integrate SAFe into a large ERP system to achieve business agility and the value of automation in these implementations
(Bonus): Global Summit 2019: Part 4- Melissa Reeve and Dwayne Stroman discuss SAFe + Marketing
November 14, 2019 17:11 - 19 minutes - 27.1 MBLearn 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.
(Bonus) Global Summit 2019: Part 3 – Joe Vallone and Don Reinertson discuss the financial impact of WSJF
November 14, 2019 17:07 - 12 minutes - 18.1 MBJoin 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.
Continuous Learning, Design Thinking and Customer Centricity
November 06, 2019 03:38 - 22 minutes - 31.2 MBLearn 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.
(Bonus) Global Summit 2019: Part 2 – Joe Vallone and Brian Tucker on People Patterns
October 31, 2019 16:05 - 10 minutes - 15.4 MBA 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.
(Bonus) Global Summit 2019: Part 1 – Interview with Keynote Speaker Jade Simmons
October 30, 2019 15:01 - 9 minutes - 13.1 MBFrom 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.”
Unlocking data's value, quantifying the impact of choices in SAFe, WSJF and Monte Carlo simulations
October 22, 2019 15:39 - 26 minutes - 37.1 MBLearn 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.
Everything architecture! The evolution of Architecture & SAFe + Architect enablers
October 08, 2019 15:40 - 17 minutes - 24.9 MBLearn how Enterprise Architecture is evolving, how one company’s success patterns integrating Architecture when implementing SAFe and how to allocate capacity for Architecture enablers.
Intel & business agility using data, Value Stream Optimization with DevOps, DevOps and SAFe questions.
September 24, 2019 15:39 - 19 minutes - 27.3 MBLearn 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.
DoD uses AI for background checks, government agencies using SAFe, and remote problem solving workshops
September 10, 2019 16:57 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MBLearn 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.
Manager responsibilities in SAFe, best practices for leadership engagement, PI System Demos and more
August 27, 2019 20:12 - 23 minutes - 32.5 MBLearn 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.
Management review, accelerating release cadence, Solution Roadmaps and more
August 13, 2019 18:23 - 13 minutes - 19.2 MBLearn 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.
Lean-Agile UX, Role of the PO, PM, servant leadership and more!
July 31, 2019 14:19 - 15 minutes - 21.9 MBListeners 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
Lean Portfolio Management and SAFe, Lean-Agile budgeting and more
July 16, 2019 15:11 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MBLearn 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.
2019 European SAFe Summit Recap, Part 2 - Welcome to the Age of Software!
July 02, 2019 14:00 - 16 minutes - 23.4 MBHear about Dean Leffingwell's keynote presentation at the 2019 European SAFe Summit - Digital Disruption is Dead: Welcome to the Age of Software!
2019 European SAFe Summit Recap - Companies changing the world, one PI at a time
June 18, 2019 16:19 - 18 minutes - 26.1 MBHear SAFe Creator and Chief Methodologist opine on the customer stories he heard at the 2019 European SAFe Summit.
SAFe and Architecture, Value Streams, WSJF and more
June 04, 2019 12:13 - 18 minutes - 25.3 MBLearn 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.
Agility and Corporate Culture, Value of Predictability and more
May 06, 2019 14:12 - 19 minutes - 27.8 MBLearn 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.
Leadership Buy in, Normalized Story Points and more
May 06, 2019 14:08 - 26 minutes - 35.9 MBLearn 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.