Business Agility Now Podcast

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Lean Portfolio Management in the Wild: Practical Applications Aug 17, 2021

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Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) is gaining momentum among enterprises seeking to connect strategy and execution with the teams that are doing the work. In this episode, SPCT Deema Dajani speaks with us about LPM and how to implement it.

Stories from the Field: Revisiting Your Value Streams Aug 03, 2021

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"We reorganized our company from three distinct business units to a functionally aligned organization, where everyone is responsible for delivering value to the customer." In this episode, we talk to Janice Murray and Adrienne Dieball at ACT.org about revisiting the organization's value streams and Agile Release Trains (ARTs). Find out the aha moment that helped them move toward organizing around value, the benefits of integrating business teams onto ARTs, lessons learned, and next steps.

Panel Discussion: Connecting Operational and Development Value Streams Jul 20, 2021

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When enterprises extend SAFe into the business, complexities can arise as people within organizational value streams interact with those in development value streams. In this episode, members of our panel share their insights and stories from the field about the role of the operational and development value streams in an enterprise's journey toward business agility.

Practical Tips for the New RTE Jul 06, 2021

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Release Train Engineers (RTEs) play an important role in aligning the organization. In this episode, we talk to Kimberly Lejonö and Carl Starendal, both former RTEs and experienced Agile coaches, who share their tips for RTEs just getting started in their role. And we'll dive into some questions we hear from RTEs in the field around inspiring change across teams and Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and managing the flow of value.

Purposeful Portfolios Jun 22, 2021

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What happens when the strategy set by an organization's leaders is disconnected from the work that's actually happening on the Agile Release Train? In this episode, SAFe® Fellow and SPCT Eric Willeke joins us to discuss how to get leadership to focus on strategic direction, and how to make sure people on the trains know the why (not just the what) behind the work.

Purposeful Portfolios Jun 22, 2021

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Scrum Master Tips and Tricks, Part Two Jun 08, 2021

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In part two of our scrum master tips and tricks series, Madi Fisher and Sam Ervin are back with even more advice. In this episode, we talk about managing timeboxes, why communication and trust within teams are so important, and how to be an awesome scrum master.

Scrum Master Tips and Tricks, Part Two Jun 08, 2021

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Scrum Master Tips and Tricks, Part One May 25, 2021

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While lots of people are still working remotely, some are returning to company offices, creating hybrid team environments. What does this new normal mean for collaboration within Agile teams? We turned to two of our scrum masters, Madi Fisher and Sam Ervin, to find out.

SAFe for Hardware May 11, 2021

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Many organizations that develop and deliver software have been practicing Agile for a decade, if not longer. That hasn't typically been the case for organizations developing hardware, until now. In this episode, Harry Koehnemann, Principal Contributor at Scaled Agile, joins us to discuss why organizations developing hardware are under pressure to deliver faster. And what guidance SAFe® 5 has to help them address these challenges.

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