University

School of Agility

SAFe Leadership

Presented by:Berkana Enterprise Consulting Mac Felsing, SPC/CSM

The College of William & Mary Mason School of Business

Center for Corporate EducationWilliamsburg, Virginia

Mac Felsing

Certification history: SPC – SAFe Program Consultant CSM - Certified Scrum Master Author

Agile Community Involvement:NYC, Virginia, SoCal, Denver; speaker at conferences and community events, including: InnovateVirginia.com

Instructor Fun or Unique Fact:Performed with 3 professional opera companies and a regional symphony. Also builds scale models.

“Your Job, should you choose to accept it…”

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SAFe Leadership - Points

• Quick Overview of SAFe 3.0

• Focus on Leadership In SAFe

• Making it Real – Leadership at any level

• Personal Challenge – How can I… - (This means you)

Quick Overview of SAFe 3.0

SAFe 3.0 Video

The Big Picture

The Big Picture

Lean Thinking

SAFE Leadership – the Lean View

House of Lean – Foundation is Lean Agile Leaders

Responsibility for success lies with existing leaders, managers, executives – not the agile champions, practitioners, teams, consultants. The leaders must be trained in these new ways of thinking and exhibit and teach them.

Characteristics• Understand Lean-Agile Principles, long term philosophy guides day-to-day

decisions, understand and teach the behaviors• Trained in practices, roles, activities, and artifacts of SAFe and other

effective Agile practices• Trained in tools and practices of continuous improvement

and teach problem solving and corrective action skills• Engaged in new process adoption, remove impediments, facilitate OCM• Take personal responsibility for Lean-Agile success

Discussion

1) How does this differ from “traditional” Agile views on leadership?

2) What do we expect from managementin a “traditional” Agile environment?

3) Where does this type of Lean-Agile attitude usually reside?

SAFE Leadership – Lean Agile Leaders

Lifelong learners and teachers.

Build better teams by demonstrating the values,

principles and practices of Lean, Product Development

Flow, and Agile Development

Lean Agile Leadership Principles

1. Take a Systems View

2. Embrace the Agile Manifesto

3. Implement Product Development Flow

4. Unlock the Intrinsic Motivation of Knowledge workers

Take a Systems View

Understand the economics, value chain and the Cost of Delay.

Optimize the whole not the parts – organization and systems.

Own the system. Take responsibility for Systemic Change.

Align everyone to a common mission Implement Lean-Agile budgeting

Embrace the Agile Manifesto

Support the its values and principles.

Know how to use the tools and practices

Foster excellence in software engineering, craftsmanship, collaborative system design

Empower teams. Exhibit Kaizen mind and a bias towards doing (action).

Implement Product Development Flow

Visualize the work, expose WIP and bottlenecks, reduce queues and backlogs.

Smaller batches. Accelerated feedback. Exploit and manage variability

using cadence and synchronization. Limit WIP and match demand to capacity

Unlock Intrinsic Motivation of Knowledge Workers

Build a learning organization – emphasize itCreate an environment of mutual influenceEncourage decentralized decision makingProvide vision with minimal requirements –

what not howEliminate policies that cause bad behavior

(MBO’s etc) and suck the life out of an organization

Align evaluations and measures to reflect lean values and principles

Discussion – Making it Real

1) For each of the 4 Lean-Agile Principles talk about when you have seen it in yourorganization?

2) What are some of the barriers to achieving

3) Are these behaviors for each of the principles only for management? Think about defending your answer.

4) Do you have any opportunities to practice any of these behaviors at your work

The Challenge…

Ask yourself,

What can I do to start exhibiting Agile-Lean Leadership in my organization?

Write down 3 things to actively change

Start working on them when you leave today!

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