The Agile Enterprise is not a Myth…it's a Reality

The way companies organize to bring products and solutions to market is being rewritten. Join this 30 minute webinar to learn about how organizations are shifting to a customer-centric view to deliver business outcomes.

In a complex organization delivering value quickly and efficiently can be a challenge - especially at scale. The Kanban method provides a means of managing the flow of value while focusing on continuous improvement. It focuses on productivity and efficiency without overworking teams

Join Broadcom’s Dan Green and Aaron Rusty Lloyd as they dive into the inner workings of the Kanban Method. They’ll take a journey into how the method originated and it’s practical implementation, including tips and challenges discovered in their many years of working with customers to improve Business Agility through consulting and Agile transformations.

This session will present a high-level comparison of various scheduling options within Clarity and firsthand experiences with Open Workbench (OWB), Microsoft Project Integration ( MSP) & built-in tools. Key areas will be discussed such as: Tool Complexity, Scheduling Focus, Resources, Reporting Licensing Cost and High-Level Features. Join us and learn which tool is best for your team!

Join Broadcom’s Linda Chase as she demonstrates the power and flexibility of Clarity roadmaps in this first episode of Linda’s Corner. Linda, and industry-expert Andy Jordan, explore how strategic roadmaps simplify and improve the planning process with rapid creation and adjustment, powerful visualizations and easy to use analysis. (E1S1)

OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are just OK if used for topics that are known: goal setting, success metrics, status updates. OKRs become great when used for managing the unknown: strategy tied to execution, alignment around value, and feedback on a trajectory.

Applied correctly, OKRs can help you flesh out the biggest problem areas in your organization so you can start to monitor and measure progress. Applied incorrectly, OKRs will bring no additional value to your organization than your old goal-setting methods.

In this session, we will share how we have used a simple 3-question template to help some of the largest companies in the world establish great OKRs using Unknown Management, or highlighting and bringing to focus the root causes for why you aren't meeting your goals. Some examples of real customer's Unknowns are: Why do we keep working on things that do not fulfill our strategies? Why do we have so many delays in getting the right things done? How do we know we are building the right stuff? Why do we miss targets?

• Identify the key areas of focus where OKRs can provide the most value
• Understand how the unknowns in your organization impact success (and why OKRs can help)
• Learn to use a 3-question template to define great OKRs

About the Speakers:

Andy Czuchry, Jr, Global Strategy, Enterprise Studio by HCL Technologies
• 20+ peer-reviewed published articles on enterprise agility, AI, leadership and entrepreneurship
• Chair of the Business Agility Transformation for a global Community of Excellence
• Holder of 2 US Patents
• ADP President’s Achievement Award

Ian McGinnis, Global Strategist, ESD BizOps, Broadcom
• Architect of agile solutions with over 30 years of experience in software development
• Worked directly with Fortune 100 companies to help them adopt true business agility
• Subject matter expert and senior advisor on topics related to scaling agility across an entire organization, allowing companies to realize the full benefits of agile

In our previous session, we discussed how we support SAFe ® within the Rally platform. Now we’d like to take things one step further and show you how we actually use the Scaled Agile Framework® at Rally to manage our Agile Release Train! Join Nancy Failla and Aaron Rusty Lloyd as they take you through some best practices and a walkthrough of our use of the Rally platform, providing real world examples and tips and tricks that we use as part of our SAFe ® implementation here at Rally.

The Clarity administration capabilities can create magic. Well, almost. Learn how to use blueprints to build quickly and display only what's needed to get the job done. Organize investment hierarchies and name investment types any way you want. If you're bold, you might even deploy custom objects. And with the new field-level security you can get down to the nitty gritty. Refresh on how easy it is to use Clarity in this short overview.

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) is the leading framework for scaling Agile to the Enterprise. Join Aaron Rusty Lloyd and Noel Rodriguez for an in depth discussion on the synergies between the Rally Software platform and the Scaled Agile Framework. Learn more about the rich history of Rally and SAFe and why Rally is the premier platform to productively scale Business Agility across your organization.

Adopting the Modern UX? Learn best practices from the experts at Broadcom – the Clarity Solution Engineering Team. Provide tools that work the way people do and you’ll get adoption and acceptance. Accuracy and transparency are outcomes of this adoption. Highlighted best practices discussed during the webinar: Multiple ways to implement, Change management plan, Right-Size your business processes. Learn from the best and join this insightful webinar discussion.

What does it look like to do Agile well at the team level? And what does it look like to do it for 100-1000 teams across your enterprise? In this webinar we will take a deep dive into the five dimensions of healthy Agile teams and explore how leaders can enable scaling team Agility while removing organizational obstacles across hundreds of teams. We’ll discuss leveraging measurement, talent development and self-enablement strategies to help organizations thrive in ever-changing markets.

About the Speakers:

Sally Elatta is a thought leader in the space of Enterprise Business Agility and Measurement. She is a dynamic and engaging speaker who advises top executives of leading global organizations through their Enterprise Business Agility (EBA) transformations using the Enterprise Business Agility Model. Sally strongly believes in measuring what matters, and that measurement without growth is effort without impact. These guiding principles inspired the creation of AgilityHealth®, the world’s leading measurement and continuous improvement platform, to help organizations accelerate their enterprise business agility transformations and thrive in ever-changing markets. She has three beautiful children, loves music and travel.

Laureen Knudsen is an award-winning senior business leader with 25+ year career that spans IT, financial and healthcare systems, and analytics. Co-Author of Modern Business Management: Creating a Built-to-Change Organization, available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Laureen has an engineering background, learned Agile methods in 2003 and has been responsible for business transformations at 4 companies, focusing on the entire business. Her specialties include regulated environments and agile Product Life Cycles (from strategic planning to post-release, including SDLC) for on-premises and cloud/SaaS environments. As well as creating solid data and information (outcomes) to see where every dollar is being spent and the value created.

Broadcom's Jason Hill and Dan Green will have an in depth discussion of Cumulative Flow Diagrams (CFD).

In the discussion we will:
Discover the wealth of information found in a CFD
Understand a CFD’s best uses
Know which charts to use in addition to a CFD
Demo of Rally’s new Smart CFD

Looking at the ways companies try to maximize business value from their software development, Forrester surveys glean new insights into emerging trends, including greater attention to transparency and efficiency. Join Lisamarie Manso of Broadcom and guest speaker Margo Visitacion of Forrester as they dissect the latest research around the concept of ValueOps – the combination of strategic investment planning and agile development.

Key takeaways:

FOCUS: Understand the various strategies companies deploy to maximize value from DevOps.

PROBLEMS: See what challenges they face in attempting to increase cross-team transparency and efficiency.

RESULTS: Dive into the specific benefits of combining investment planning and agile execution.

Generating ideas is an easy task, but prioritizing can take time and to get it right, you need Clarity. Don’t just prioritize your ideas, add supporting financials, tasks and involve other stakeholders. Manage your ideas as they move through the approval funnel on their way to becoming a project. Only spend time on the highest anticipated idea returns.

Discover how Clarity customers have planned and successfully migrated to the new user interface. Panel includes key industry organizations like Boeing, Michigan State University, Consorsbank and Government of British Columbia. Open discussion around their planning strategy, steps in preparation, pilots, training and obtaining staff buy in for a successful roll out to over 6000 users. Join by participating and asking your questions.

There are plenty of prescriptive statements around Agile – but are they all true? Our panelists will talk about some of the myths around Agile – and break through some of the misconceptions.

“Agile will solve all your problems.” “Agile is only for IT.” “Agile needs to be co-located in order to work.” “Agile is the recipe for the perfect chocolate chip cookie.”

Prepare yourself for some storytelling and fun from Marie Kalliney (Global Delivery Director, Digital Advisory and Consulting Services, Enterprise Studio by HCL Technologies), Rusty Lloyd (Global Capability Specialist, ESD BizOps, Broadcom), and Ian McGinnis (Global Strategist, ESD BizOps, Broadcom) as they discuss – and bust – common myths about Agile.

Join power users from Michigan State University, Sky, AbbVie & TDS Telecom for a lively discussion on the benefits of the new Clarity experience, including strategic roadmapping, continuous planning and must-have prioritization. Hear how customers deployed seamlessly, putting real investment planning in the hands of thousands of employees.

In part two of the “Keeping a Healthy Program Backlog” series, our presenters will pick up where they left off, sharing what happens beginning in the fifth week after a Big Room Planning event. Now that you’ve created your Program backlog of Features and made some rough capacity allocations, you’ll learn how to refine, estimate and prioritize Features and prepare them for User Story breakdown, draft planning and preparation for the next event!

About the Speakers:
Eric Nash (Director, Enterprise Customer Success) is a member of the Digital Advisory and Consulting Services (DACS) team at Enterprise Studio by HCL Technologies. DACS is the global leader in collaborating, consulting and coaching with enterprise-level companies, connecting them to the promise of business agility—the ability to sense and respond to opportunities and challenges and protect themselves from the volatility of doing business in the digital economy.

Aaron Rusty Lloyd (Director, Rally Sales Engineering) is one of those guys who is so interested in how people use and benefit from Technology that he evangelizes it every chance he gets. Before joining Rally Software as an Executive Advisor and Director of Sales Engineering, he worked as a Lean IT Consultant, Technical Sales Engineer, Services Architect and Developer (among other things). Luckily for him, being a Full Stack Technology Evangelist is never boring.