Coaching a Perth Government Agency through their Agile Transformation

Posted on October 26, 2020March 26, 2021 by Two Percent Shift in Align, Engage, Scale, Transform

At Two Percent Shift we coach organisations through transformations to make shifts towards what is collectively trying to happen.

This week we had the pleasure of facilitating a division within a Perth based government agency that is undertaking a large scale agile transformation to improve the delivery of value to the customer in the shortest sustainable lead time and empower their people to help make it a great place to work.

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Delivering Goal Orientated Scope

Posted on April 25, 2014March 26, 2021 by Steve Barrett in Scale

Abstract

My last blog was focused on what I learnt about the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The theme quote for that blog was:

“If you’ve lost the ability to do small things then you’ve not scaled, you’ve just gotten big and slow!!!”

So what are the small things we should do well at the team level or at scale? Breaking the work up, avoiding big batches, and letting the work flow was one of the recommendations.

This blog will focus on the integration of techniques to deliver goal-orientated scope (that breaks up the work) and take a look at how you might start to visualise and manage the flow at the portfolio level.

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Scaling Agile using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Posted on April 9, 2014March 26, 2021 by Steve Barrett in Scale

“If you’ve lost the ability to do small things then you’ve not scaled, you’ve just gotten big and slow!!!”

Abstract

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has become a hot discussion topic in the agile community as a solution to scaling agile in the enterprise. Amongst the options available to scale agile, SAFe appears to be leading the pack as the popular choice for consideration and implementation. The framework has got its critics and some prominent respected people in the agile community have spoken out against it. With everything you read you have to consider motivations beyond the narrative to evaluate how impartial a critique actually might be. I decided I needed an education in SAFe to develop an informed opinion on the advantages and disadvantages of the framework and when it might make sense to use it. Last week I flew to Melbourne to undergo the SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) certification training. This blog gives an account of what I learned (the good, the bad and the ugly), the opinions I have formed and what recommendations I would make.

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