SAFe Invitations

BringingtheInvitation/Pull-basedChangeManagementlanguageintoSAFe implementation

approach

My experience at HP, Amdocs, Siemens

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“Pull from management & executives”

Market/Sell the change to LOBs

Market/Sell more depth

Pull-based Training• Run Leading-SAFe /

Foundations every X weeks

• Market internally using “Launch” techniques (Scarcity, Deadline, etc.)

• Let people opt-in• Will identify champions

and potentially interested value streams/ARTs

Open the Space• Run a wide open space

“SAFe @ our company/org – What does it mean? Why? How?”

• Use Proceedings to continue preparing for pull by leaders

• Use attendance and behavior during OS to gauge acceptance, identify potential champions.

• Can combine mini open space with large group “SAFe Foundations” keynote.

https://twambeke.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/openspace.gif

Leading SAFe Inspired Management Workshop for the

VS/ART• Start with Why

Lean/Agile/SAFe here• Something between

Foundations/Leading SAFe and the AgileSparks Management Focusing Workshop*

• Lots of context-specific discussion mapping SAFe to the VS/ART

• They PULL the kind of SAFe they can commit to as a VS/ART leadership team

On the specific ART/VS

http://www.agilesparks.com/ManagementFocusWorkshop

All aboard, all engaged• For me – one of the key things about

SAFe – the spirit (Ba?) and energies of bringing the whole train together for training, planning, inspecting & adapting

Spice QuickStart with Open-Space Thinking

• Leave some of the HOW decisions open for discussion

• Mini-open-space addressing “Vote of confidence” concerns regarding “What are the implications of running SAFe on our train” and/or “the PI Objectives”

Or even - Invite the Train to experiment with SAFe

• Provide knowledge about SAFe (through the QuickStart experience)

• Provide the goal and rationale through the “theme” of the open space

• Run an open space around how to adopt SAFe in the Train

• Position the first PI as an experiment for whether SAFe is a good fit and how we need to work with it.

Use guerilla marketing to grow –leveraging the beach head

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Share success, publicly visualize, invite prospects to PI Demo

Invite prospects to QuickStart/PI Planning

Any other ideas?

In summary - Try this on your next SAFe implementation:

1. Treat the enterprise/portfolio as an open market, use marketing techniques, let trains/value streams pull.

2. Invite people to pull/opt into training (Foundations, Leading SAFe, ScrumXP, PO, etc.) and use that to identify leads/prospects.

3. Use open space to invite interested people to discuss the potential and implications of Scaling Agile w/ SAFe in the organization.

4. Use Leading SAFe combined with Management Workshop for Trains/VSs that pull and want to start – make them own their SAFe approach.

5. Spice QuickStart with mini-open-space vignettes e.g. around “Vote of confidence” in first PI Planning.

6. Use guerilla marketing to grow – share successes, invite prospects to exciting ceremonies such as PI Planning, PI Demo, invite excited leaders to share their story in periodical training or directly send prospects to hear a testimonial from them.

7. Executive Sponsor or Train/VS-level sponsor inviting people to figure out “how SAFecan fit here” in an open space event, followed up with a PI-length experiment addressing the key questions/conclusions, followed up by an Inspect&Adaptworkshop (that can also be an Open Space)?

References• http://yuvalyeret.com/pull-based-change-management/

• http://yuvalyeret.com/2015/11/02/safe-invitations-part-13-pull-based-change/,

• http://yuvalyeret.com/2015/11/03/safe-invitations-part-23-management-

workshop-and-vote-of-confidence-driven-open-space-in-quickstart/

• http://yuvalyeret.com/2015/11/04/safe-invitations-part-23-combining-open-

space-agility-and-safe/

• http://www.agilesparks.com/ManagementFocusWorkshop

• http://openspaceagility.com/