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SAN FRANCISCO, CA – May 28, 2024 – Project & Team, a leading consulting organization specializing in digital transformation, today announced that Debbie Brey has joined the company as Director of Complex Product Innovation & SAFe Fellow.
Your organization has several Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and now is contemplating whether there is a need to formalize a Large Solution to coordinate the work of these ARTs. Several patterns emerge, and depending on the nature of the dependencies across the ARTS, you should choose pragmatically and appropriately. As always, the goal is to organize for the best flow of value.
Our core team is part of the Presencing Institute (PI) U.Lab initiative, where 10.000+ Transformation Experts worldwide collectively work on a better tomorrow. The PI grows out of the MIT Center for Organizational Learning. Ultimately, the Lab aims to activate and amplify a locally anchored, globally connected network of thousands of cross-sector change initiatives working to build new economic infrastructures that generate well-being for all.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – March 31, 2022 – Project & Team, a leading consulting organization specializing in digital transformation, today announced two of its advisory team members, I-Wen Chen and Lindy Quick, have been recognized for superior knowledge, mastery and thought leadership in the practice and principles of SAFe.
MUNICH, GERMANY – September 28, 2021 – The latest thought leadership on scaling & Solution Trains is now published and available for download!
The Scaling Patterns for an Intelligent Operating Model business agility white paper explains why, what, and how to build strategic & tactical scaling capabilities using proven Solution Train Launch Patterns supporting your AI, Data & Cloud initiatives. This includes the complexity around SAP environments.
Learn how to create an Intelligent Operating Model with strategic and tactical scaling patterns, to continuously develop and deploy multi-year roadmaps and self-organize around value.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – August 11, 2021 – Project & Team, a leading consulting organization and digital transformation specialists, today announced several advisory practice leaders will be presenting that the Global SAFe Summit, 27 Sept – 1 Oct.
Federal digital transformation initiatives have been going on for some time now, and the results have been – well, mixed. IT managers have a difficult row to hoe here, because they are at the forefront of carrying an unwelcome message back up the chain of command: Digital transformation is a process, not a destination.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – July 21, 2021 – Project & Team, a leading consulting organization and digital transformation specialists, today announced Malte Kumlehn has been appointed to Strategic Advisory Board and Director SAP Business Agility Advisory.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – July 2, 2021 – Project & Team, a leading consulting organization and digital transformation specialists, today announced Wolfgang Brandhuber has joined the company as a Senior Consultant & SPCT. Before joining Project & Team, Brandhuber spent over 14 years at Accenture serving a range of large enterprise organizations throughout EMEA and all top companies based in Germany.
Value streams are not a new concept, having been talked about over 30 years ago by Dr. Allen Ward, the author of “Lean Product and Process Development,” but until the last few years, there has been tremendous variability in how people define value streams. With the rise of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), more and more large organizations are adopting value streams into their business architecture in an attempt to deliver value to their customers more efficiently.
In the last year, my company's field experts — Harry Koehnemann, SAFe Fellow and Principal Consultant at Scaled Agile, and Jeff Shupack, President of Advisory Practice at Project & Team — revealed some powerful insights as our team worked with hard-hit industries like automotive and aerospace and helped guide some of the largest commercial and government programs in navigating the disruption. We saw how organizations' rapid pivots left many workers struggling with fatigue and burnout.
San Francisco, CA – May 4, 2021 – By Erik Marvik, Business Agility Transformation Consultant & SPC, Project & Team
How applying a shared cadence and synchronization helps development teams proceed confidently and predictably deliver solution value despite the inherent uncertainty.
Saahil Panikar weighs in: OKRs, Objectives and Key Results, help IT and business groups measure individuals and teams based on outcomes rather than output. Here's how to explain OKRs, their benefits, and common examples.
Golden, CO - April 18, 2021 - By Cindy VanEpps, Digital Transformation Consultant & SPCT, Project & Team
Leveraging our experiences as well as the book “Team Topologies” by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais, we provide this calculator and advisor.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – April 5, 2021 - Project & Team appoints Robin Yeman to Strategic Advisory Board and Director of Cyber-Physical Advisory Practice; Lockheed Martin Senior Space Fellow and SAFe Fellow to augment team of Advisory Practice leaders for Fortune 100 and Government Agencies
Golden, CO - March 29, 2021 - By Cindy Van Epps, Digital Transformation Consultant & SPCT, Project & Team
The burden of too much work juggling manifests as the thrashing of uncontrolled context-switching and ineffective meeting attendance. In the agile parlance this is called work in progress (WIP). The impact on the effectiveness and morale of our workforce should be considered with concern that includes the human-focused culture rather than the “just the way it is” culture. The impact extends well beyond the individuals and into the economics of value delivery for the organization. Enterprises from large engineering, military defense contractors, and medical device providers even to pressure-cooker startups tolerate as well as reinforce this economic burden on value delivery.
Golden, CO - March 22, 2021 - By Cindy VanEpps, Digital Transformation Consultant & SPCT, Project & Team
Customer-centricity is a mindset. Of course everyone in the Enterprise wants to please the customer. But where does that focus rank compared to satisfying the management hierarchy? Let’s explore the realities . . .
Golden, CO - March 22, 2021 - By Cindy VanEpps, Digital Transformation Consultant & SPCT, Project & Team
Dependency management, in addition to rallying around a common vision, are arguably the most impactful values from Program Increment Planning. In this calculator, you can try out different “what-if” scenarios with the key parameters that make up the economic value. Here we compare the effort to manage dependencies during the PI Planning event compared to the cost of managing dependencies outside of this event.
Golden, CO - March 22, 2021 - By Cindy VanEpps, Digital Transformation Consultant & SPCT, Project & Team
Some of the most impactful economic value of rallying around a common visions with collaboration and collective ownership is finding and testing dependencies across teams early. Use this calculator to estimate the economic impact in your organization of late discovery and testing of dependencies.
Golden, CO - March 22, 2021 - By Cindy VanEpps, Digital Transformation Consultant & SPCT, Project & Team
Uncontrolled work in progress (WIP) is often a prime “energy currency” sink in organizations. With this calculator, you can estimate the cost of using your own values. The key economic parameters are provided with common default values and ranges. Get your shocked face ready . . .
Golden, CO - March 9, 2021 - How do we apply agile for hardware when there are long wait times for procurement or manufacturing? Use this calculator to help you make a value-based economic decision.
San Francisco, CA - March 8, 2021 - Experts say the auto must accelerate its conversion to a model based on fast design, production and delivery of software as vehicles become rolling computers. Failure to do so could have costly results. Project & Team’s Jeff Shupack throws back some questions in a Forbes interview, “When do you want to stop innovating? It’s relentless improvement. When’s your transformation done? When you’re ready to stop being competitive.” Read full Forbes article here: https://tinyurl.com/4f8dzu8w
TAMPA, FL – March 5, 2021 – Five Key Learnings to help you be successful in a highly regulated, cyber-physical, hardware driven environment while working virtually.
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – February 23, 2021 – Project & Team, a leading consulting organization and digital transformation specialists, today announced the appointment of Cindy VanEpps as the company’s business agility & digital transformation senior consultant. In this position, VanEpps will be responsible leading and coaching architecture principles and applying the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).