Description

Duration

Two Full Days or Four Half Days

Overview 

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is all about guiding enterprises in scaling lean and agile practices. It promotes alignment, collaboration, and delivery across large numbers of agile teams. Developed by practitioners, SAFe leverages three primary bodies of knowledge: agile software development, lean product development, and systems thinking.

During this two-days hands-on implementation workshop, the participants would understand the importance of Lean-Agile Centre of Excellence (LACE) Formation and Execution

“A guiding coalition that operates as an effective team can process more information, more quickly. It can also speed the implementation of new approaches because powerful people are truly informed and committed to key decisions”. —John Kotter 

The Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) is a small team dedicated to implementing the SAFe Lean-Agile way of working. It is often one of the key differentiators between companies practising Agile in name only and those fully committed to adopting Lean-Agile practices and getting the best business outcomes. 

The LACE is the third element of the ‘sufficiently powerful guiding coalition’ for change, which is made up of three primary ingredients: Train several Lean-Agile change agents as SAFe Program Consultants (SPCs) Train executives, managers, and other leaders Charter a LACE

Steps to SAFe® Lean-Agile Centre of Excellence (LACE) Formation and Facilitation Support include

• Communicating the business need, urgency, and vision for change 
• Developing the implementation plan and managing the transformation backlog 
• Establishing the metrics 
• Conducting or sourcing training for executives, managers and leaders, Agile teams, and specialty roles such as Product Owner, Product Manager, Scrum Master, and Release Train Engineer 
• Facilitating Value Stream Identification Workshops (using supporting toolkit) and helping define and launch Agile Release Trains (ARTs) 
• Providing coaching and training to ART stakeholders and teams 
• Participating in critical, initial events like Program Increment (PI) Planning and Inspect and Adapt (I&A) 
• Fostering SAFe Communities of Practice (CoPs) Communicating progress