safe invitations
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BringingtheInvitation/Pull-basedChangeManagementlanguageintoSAFe implementation
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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/