Project & Team Advisors Selected To Speak at 2021 Global SAFe Summit
Business Agility Leaders to Share Strategies and Real World Examples for DevOps, Design Thinking, Scaling ERP and SAP as They Impact Digital Transformation
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. The virtual 2021 Summit is a two-day event that you can attend from anywhere in the world. The same agenda will be repeated three times, to accommodate time zones in Americas; Europe, Middle East Africa (EMEA); or Asia Pacific (APAC).
Addressing business agility, the following speakers and presentations are available:
How to Tackle the “Impossible” - Converting a Mid-Flight Program from Waterfall to SAFe
Date and time: September 27, 2021 from 1:20 PM - 1:45 PM MT
Speakers: Jeff Shupack (SPCT), Emily Sperring
Track: SAFe in the Real World / Level: Beginner
Description: Learnings from the transformational journey a century-old company took in their pursuit to deploy first-time, 100% accurate Payroll and HR systems and processes in a dynamic global environment. Background: A century-old company has embarked on a multimillion-dollar project: Deploy an integrated Payroll software conversion for over 150,000 employees globally Onboard subsidiaries to receive Payroll and HR services Program History: Traditional waterfall methodology was in use and the program risked significant deployment schedule slip. Integration was lacking and there were concerning software performance gaps in the newly designed systems Pivot to succeed: The company shifted the program to SAFe mid-flight and leveraged design thinking.
Industrial DevOps: What are the barriers to adoption
Date and time: September 27, 2021 from 1:55 pm - 2:20 pm
Speakers: Robin Yeman (SAFe Fellow), Suzette Johnson
Track: SAFe in the Real World / Level: Beginner
Description: In 2009 Patrick Debois coined the term DevOps at a Velocity event in Belgium. 12 years later there have been countless books to describe this cooperation between development and operations to deliver capability rapidly to the user. We further have extended that term into Industrial DevOps to account for complex system of systems which include hardware, firmware, and software. Many of the practices such as small batch sizes, limit work in progress, and organizing around value are not new. The benefits of these practices in quality, schedule, cost, transparency, value are undisputed facts that have been shown repeatedly in periodicals such as the DORA report. The question is if the ideas are not new, and the benefits are proven why is it so difficult for organizations to move to DevOps and almost impossible to move to Industrial DevOps. Robin Yeman, Chief Technical Officer and Suzette Johnson Senior Northrop Grumman Fellow will walk through the common barriers to adoption they see in these two large scale companies as well as invite the audience to participate in potential root causes of these barriers. The barriers we will discuss are Organizational Structure, Psychological Safety, Access to Common Language, Understanding the Value Stream, Lack of Trust, Access to patterns to break down systems, and exclusive over inclusive behaviors. In this session you will not only hear stories of programs who are experiencing these barriers you will have the opportunity to collaborate on solutions.
Managing Large Scaled SAP® Business Transformation: Planning Conferences as Key Success Factors in Solution Trains
Date and time: 09/28/2021 at 12:55 pm - 1:20 pm
Speakers: Malte Kumlehn (SAFe Fellow), Wolfgang Brandhuber (SPCT)
Track: SAFe in the Real World / Level: Intermediate
Description: The challenge of complexity and to realize business agility in Fortune 500 organizations is not a new conversation for most leaders. A critical skill to lead from the emerging future and scale innovations repeatedly is to continuously self-organized around business-critical Enterprise Solutions. Working with Large Solution for some years now Planning Conferences, which are similar to PI Planning on Solution Train level, have proven to be indispensable for aligning several Agile Release Trains within a Solution Train. Through discussion of real scenarios learn how the SAFe Solution Train critical success factors are applied to help you to transform large, complex Enterprise Solutions such as ERP systems that are at the heart of Business Agility and every company’s success. But how is this alignment and the exact assignment of requirements managed in practiced? In Planning Conferences we work with Solution Areas, Solution Area Boards and Solution Boards. These tools have proven to be an important layer in highly complex environments. Solution Areas are clusters of highly dependent teams that exist within or between Agile Release Trains. They coordinate themselves via Solution Area Boards, which ensure a high level of transparency and alignment within these clusters.
About Project & Team
Project & Team is a group of transformation experts working for leading Fortune 500 companies including Aerospace, Defense, Energy, Finance, Healthcare, Human Resources, Information Technology, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, and Telecom, as well as State and National Government agencies. The global reputation for assisting customers achieve business agility and respond quickly to market changes and emerging opportunities by using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe©), Lean-Agile, DevSecOps, and Design Thinking practices to continually deliver innovative, high-quality products & services is what sets the firm apart in a complex world. Connect with us LinkedIn and Twitter