Getting to a Large Solution

Your organization has several Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and now is contemplating whether there is a need to formalize a Large Solution to coordinate the work of these ARTs. Several patterns emerge, and depending on the nature of the dependencies across the ARTS, you should choose pragmatically and appropriately. As always, the goal is to organize for the best flow of value.

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SAFe® Leadership Transformation Mastery U.lab 2x | Leading from the emerging future | 3D System Mapping Co-Sensing Experience Report

Our core team is part of the Presencing Institute (PI) U.Lab initiative, where 10.000+ Transformation Experts worldwide collectively work on a better tomorrow. The PI grows out of the MIT Center for Organizational Learning. Ultimately, the Lab aims to activate and amplify a locally anchored, globally connected network of thousands of cross-sector change initiatives working to build new economic infrastructures that generate well-being for all.

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Alison Guzzio
Thought Leadership: Scaling Patterns for an Intelligent Operating Model

MUNICH, GERMANY – September 28, 2021 – The latest thought leadership on scaling & Solution Trains is now published and available for download!

The Scaling Patterns for an Intelligent Operating Model business agility white paper explains why, what, and how to build strategic & tactical scaling capabilities using proven Solution Train Launch Patterns supporting your AI, Data & Cloud initiatives. This includes the complexity around SAP environments.

Learn how to create an Intelligent Operating Model with strategic and tactical scaling patterns, to continuously develop and deploy multi-year roadmaps and self-organize around value.

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Project & Team Expands Global Presence as Agile and Transformation Specialist with Addition of Germany-based Wolfgang Brandhuber

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – July 2, 2021 – Project & Team, a leading consulting organization and digital transformation specialists, today announced Wolfgang Brandhuber has joined the company as a Senior Consultant & SPCT. Before joining Project & Team, Brandhuber spent over 14 years at Accenture serving a range of large enterprise organizations throughout EMEA and all top companies based in Germany.

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SD Times - Challenging the way we organize around value

Value streams are not a new concept, having been talked about over 30 years ago by Dr. Allen Ward, the author of “Lean Product and Process Development,” but until the last few years, there has been tremendous variability in how people define value streams. With the rise of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), more and more large organizations are adopting value streams into their business architecture in an attempt to deliver value to their customers more efficiently.

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Alison Guzzio
Forbes Magazine - Three Ways To Accelerate Your Digital Transformation

In the last year, my company's field experts — Harry Koehnemann, SAFe Fellow and Principal Consultant at Scaled Agile, and Jeff Shupack, President of Advisory Practice at Project & Team — revealed some powerful insights as our team worked with hard-hit industries like automotive and aerospace and helped guide some of the largest commercial and government programs in navigating the disruption. We saw how organizations' rapid pivots left many workers struggling with fatigue and burnout.

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Alison Guzzio
Quantified Impact of Uncontrolled Multitasking

Golden, CO - March 29, 2021 - By Cindy Van Epps, Digital Transformation Consultant & SPCT, Project & Team

The burden of too much work juggling manifests as the thrashing of uncontrolled context-switching and ineffective meeting attendance. In the agile parlance this is called work in progress (WIP). The impact on the effectiveness and morale of our workforce should be considered with concern that includes the human-focused culture rather than the “just the way it is” culture. The impact extends well beyond the individuals and into the economics of value delivery for the organization. Enterprises from large engineering, military defense contractors, and medical device providers even to pressure-cooker startups tolerate as well as reinforce this economic burden on value delivery.

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Value Calculator: Dependency Management in PI Planning

Golden, CO - March 22, 2021 - By Cindy VanEpps, Digital Transformation Consultant & SPCT, Project & Team

Dependency management, in addition to rallying around a common vision, are arguably the most impactful values from Program Increment Planning. In this calculator, you can try out different “what-if” scenarios with the key parameters that make up the economic value. Here we compare the effort to manage dependencies during the PI Planning event compared to the cost of managing dependencies outside of this event.

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Value Calculator: Finding & Testing Dependencies Early

Golden, CO - March 22, 2021 - By Cindy VanEpps, Digital Transformation Consultant & SPCT, Project & Team

Some of the most impactful economic value of rallying around a common visions with collaboration and collective ownership is finding and testing dependencies across teams early. Use this calculator to estimate the economic impact in your organization of late discovery and testing of dependencies.

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Value Calculator: Cost of Context-switching

Golden, CO - March 22, 2021 - By Cindy VanEpps, Digital Transformation Consultant & SPCT, Project & Team

Uncontrolled work in progress (WIP) is often a prime “energy currency” sink in organizations. With this calculator, you can estimate the cost of using your own values. The key economic parameters are provided with common default values and ranges. Get your shocked face ready . . .

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