A Unum Case Study: Successful IT Transformation to Business Relevance

: It's not uncommon to hear about organizations struggling with Agile. Some companies are a year or more in and just aren't seeing the amazing results they expected. Some begin seriously questioning whether the investment has been worth it. While scaling Agile isn't easy, it is worth it.

Join CA Technologies and Jim Love, CIO ITWC, on Wednesday, September 27th 1:00 PM ET, and hear how CA’s GIS organization decided to stop starting and start finishing.

During this webinar, we will explore:

• The obstacles they faced as they embarked on this journey and how they overcame them
• The benefits they are seeing almost two years later
• Their vision and roadmap for scaling agile further in their organization

Agile isn't effortless: it requires executive buy-in, cultural and behavioral changes and, ultimately, the desire to focus on customer value. But spend an hour with Jim and CA and we’ll help you demystify and simplify your agile journey, so you can get more out of it.

The increased pace of project delivery that is a cornerstone of business agility has received a lot of attention, but the focus has always been on planning and execution.  What about control, specifically financial control?  In this eye opening webinar leading portfolio and project management authority Andy Jordan explains how investment planning and forecasting, active financial management and aggressive variance management are prerequisites for successfully delivering modern business management. 

Join Andy and learn:
·         How to build financial management into planning and projects from the ground up
·         How to monitor and control actual and forecast spends without significant manual intervention
·         The areas where financial control often fails, and how to prevent that
Plus much more.  As always Andy will provide attendees with some key takeaways they can apply in their organizations today to improve the quality of financial management.  Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your organization’s ability to deliver consistently improved performance in this critical aspect of project management.

In the rapidly evolving world, the ability for organizations to develop greater agility depends on the ability of their PMO to evolve and grow the role they play.

What should a Modern PMO be?

Join Andy Jordan, internationally recognized PMO and PPM expert together with CA Technologies, Jim Tisch to explore the evolution of PMOs to ensure they are ‘future proofed’ to deliver the evolving needs of organizations. Among other topics Andy will explore:

•The move from business focused to business driving
•A shift in emphasis from value to cost of value
•The evolution from strategic to differentiating
•The steps necessary to make the change

Delivered in Andy’s signature high energy style this webinar promises to not only challenge the way you think about project execution and the role the PMO plays, but also to think about the implications on other areas of your organization. Andy will provide a roadmap to help you start that journey of evolution and ensure your PMO is ready for the brave new project delivery world ahead.

You’ve begun your agile journey and probably have several scrum teams working in sprints. You might be seeing some results, but not what you expected. Certainly not the 30-75% improvement in time to market, or the 25-75% improvement in quality that you’ve heard about. So, what else do you need to do?

Join us on Monday, September 11, as Martin Burns, with CA Technologies, and Carl Starendal, with Scaled Agile, Inc, discuss the latest release of SAFe 4.5, focusing on the updates around Implementation Roadmap.

Learning Outcomes
1.Understand the “tipping point” in your organization, and what it means for your agile transformation.
2.Learn how to train change agents, executives, managers and leaders.
3.Learn how to create an implementation plan.

SAFe is a registered mark of Scaled Agile, Inc.

You’ve begun your agile journey and probably have several scrum teams working in sprints. You might be seeing some results, but not what you expected. Certainly not the 30-75% improvement in time to market, or the 25-75% improvement in quality that you’ve heard about. So, what else do you need to do?

Join us on Monday, September 11, as Martin Burns, with CA Technologies, and Carl Starendal, with Scaled Agile, Inc, discuss the latest release of SAFe 4.5, focusing on the updates around Implementation Roadmap.

Learning Outcomes
1.Understand the “tipping point” in your organization, and what it means for your agile transformation.
2.Learn how to train change agents, executives, managers and leaders.
3.Learn how to create an implementation plan.

SAFe is a registered mark of Scaled Agile, Inc.

While project management, and project portfolio management (PPM) software solutions, have come a long way in recent years there is still one aspect of projects that lags far behind – reporting. Until now they have been little more than data summaries, providing little to no insight into projects and potentially misleading stakeholders and driving the wrong actions. Now things are changing. Join project management expert Andy Jordan as he explains how the integration of Business Intelligence (BI) tools with PPM solutions allows for:
•Detailed trending and predictive analytics
•Reliable decision support
•Customized information summaries tailored to individual needs
•Significant cost savings and improved chances of project success
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to gain insight into the future of project reporting, and to learn how the future is already here. Delivered in Andy’s signature up tempo and thought provoking style, this is one webinar you don’t want to miss!

For any organization to be truly great at their craft they have to embrace both Agile and DevOps. Both movements are grounded in the same lean values and principles and are far more alike than they are different, yet somehow an adversarial atmosphere can exist which forces organizations to choose between the two.

In this webinar, we will partner with Inbar Oren, SAFe Fellow and Principal Contributor at Scaled Agile, Inc, to describe how this this gap can be bridged with the latest release of SAFe 4.5, as well as, offer techniques and tips that you can implement right away.

During this webinar, we’ll discuss:
● The underlying principles shared by both the DevOps and Scaling Agile movements
● How each of these movements can be leveraged the other
● How to recognize common pitfalls and traps we sometimes fall into that cause these movements to be adversaries rather than allies

Scaled Agile, Inc recently released SAFe® 4.5, with feedback from users and the community. In the words of Dean Leffingwell, Director and Chief Methodologist at Scaled Agile, Inc.: “we believe you’ll find 4.5 to be leaner, more Agile, and better at fostering faster innovation and learning than any of its predecessors”.

Join Mr. Leffingwell and Tamara Nation, Agile Transformation Consultant at CA Technologies, on Thursday, July 27, 10am PT / 1pm ET, as they discuss:

•What’s new with SAFe 4.5
•How CA Agile Central supports SAFe 4.5 at the portfolio level
•How successful companies combine SAFe implementation and CA Agile Central

We encourage you to join us for the first of a three-part series on how CA Agile Central Products and Services supports scaling agile SAFely.



SAFe is a registered mark of Scaled Agile, Inc. Reproduced with permission © 2011-2017 Scaled Agile, Inc. All rights reserved.

Being an adaptive enterprise means having the ability to rapidly respond to changing conditions. As the market changes, you adapt. As customer feedback comes in, you adapt. As your competitors shift their focus, you adapt. 
 
Join James Chan and Laureen Knudsen, of CA Technologies, on Wednesday, July 26, 9am PT / 12pm ET, as they dig deeper into how Modern Business Management is essential to a thriving, adaptive enterprise. During this webinar, you’ll learn:
 
•How enterprise-wide business visibility provides real-time, continuous project data 
•How to align funding for the projects agile teams are working on 
•How financial and performance metrics connect financial models and audits to delivery practices 
 
The adaptive enterprise is leveraging real-time visibility that allows it to proactively embrace changes and transform negatives into opportunities that move the business forward. It is prepared to respond to nearly every possibility with speed and agility and to take advantage of every circumstance. Are you ready?

What is a PMO? It’s a question that many organizations are still trying to answer, but according to internationally recognized PMO and PPM expert Andy Jordan it’s a question that is outdated. He believes today’s question needs to be ‘what should a PMO be?’

In this webinar Andy joins CA’s own Jim Tisch to explore the evolution of PMOs to ensure they are ‘future proofed’ to deliver the evolving needs of organizations. Among other topics Andy will explore:

•The move from business focused to business driving
•A shift in emphasis from value to cost of value
•The evolution from strategic to differentiating
•The steps necessary to make the change

Delivered in Andy’s signature high energy style this webinar promises to not only challenge the way you think about project execution and the role the PMO plays, but also to think about the implications on other areas of your organization. Andy will provide a roadmap to help you start that journey of evolution and ensure your PMO is ready for the brave new project delivery world ahead.

Today’s markets move with incredible speed. You’re bombarded with new competitive threats every day. New companies, new products, new technologies. At the same time, opportunities are opening up like never before, all demanding sophisticated evaluations and quick decisions.

In this Business Agility Coach’s Corner discussion, you will learn how to shift your organization’s mindset and prepare for an agile transformation. You’ll get the information and support you need to drive groundswell and ensure you are on the path to increased business agility and transformational success.

Join us on Thursday, June 8, 10am PT / 1pm ET, for a discussion with Brian Adkins, Principal Agile Coach and Skip Angel, Transformation Consultant at CA Technologies to talk about:
• If your organization’s operational and legacy processes are a blessing and an opportunity for change
• How to identify and build support for a agile transformation and organizational change
• How to harness the appetite for change and drive support across siloed departments

We’ll spend some time talking through this current engagement but also leave plenty of time for questions.

Business climate has changed dramatically, and change has not come to an end yet. As a result, organizations are constantly trying to catch the next wave, but what if the next wave is trying to catch you? Is your business agile enough to deal with all the change? Will you manage to stay ahead of your competition?

To thrive in the new economy, business transformation is required. The organization, it’s processes, products and services will all need to be optimized to enable continuous innovation and improvement.

This webcast will be presented in partnership with Novius, creators of the Business Transformation Framework® (BTF), a key enabler for making your strategy work. BTF is a unique approach that connects knowledge of disruptive business models, of new technologies and of successful digital change programs. BTF is agile! With BTF the necessary long term, top down, process of strategic planning belongs to the past. Projects with a high strategic contribution can be started within weeks.

This approach has proven itself over the past twenty years and will be introduced to you. Over 200 companies have successfully been transformed/are transforming by using this highly successful method.

Attend this webcast to learn how CA Technologies and Novius can support your transformational efforts and how to break the barriers between ideas and outcomes.

The latest version of CA Project & Portfolio Management comes with new role-based user experiences and deeper integration into Agile Central. As Millennials keep switching jobs at twice the rate, CA PPM 15.2 helps businesses match evolving skill sets with the right projects. A new feature called Telescoping lets resource managers take care of both long and short term needs from a single screen. Project coordinators can solve staffing issues in real time with new collaboration tools. And the CA PPM time-management app now is available for developers working inside Agile Central. Come see Doug Page, product expert at CA Technologies, demo the new CA PPM 15.2.

Utilizing Agile and DevOps practices together holds the key to digital transformation. Jeff Scheaffer shares the results of a primary research study that shows the power of combining Agile and DevOps together.

Additionally, Jeff will outline the tools required to achieve true continuous delivery—by enabling development, testing and release to occur continuously, and concurrently.

Are you frustrated with leadership wanting to delegate the Agile transformation and not getting involved? Come to this talk and learn about new ways to facilitate leadership engagement, not just buy-in. Learn how to form an Agile Leadership Scrum or Kanban team, where leadership will understand that they are responsible for the success or failure of the Agile transformation.

As Edwards Deming once said, “It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to that is, what they must do. These obligations cannot be delegated.”

Thus, leaders must understand what it is they must do and what they are committing to for an Agile transformation to be successful.

There is something for every Agilist in this talk. Leaders will learn a new paradigm for Lean and Agile thinking and understand how they can actively lead an Agile transformation. Agile coaches will gain new tools and techniques for engaging leaders to build a significantly powerful guiding coalition for the transformation. Agile team members will learn how to leverage leadership support to quickly resolve impediments, as well as increase transparency, and coordination.

Attendees will learn:

- Creating leadership participation in a Scrum or Kanban team to lead the Agile transformation
- Overcoming impediments to change management (e.g. leaders don't have time to participate)
- How to coach leaders to think in terms of Lean and Agile leadership
- Measuring Agile transformation success at the leadership level and understanding the return on investment
- Sustaining the change culture so leaders will continue to participate

Agile development methodology is critical to almost every organization that relies on software development to achieve their enterprise strategy. Companies of every shape and size now rely heavily on agile development projects and programs to quickly and assuredly deliver new products and services to their customers.

Initially viewed as antithetical to project governance, organizations must recognize agile efforts require the power of project and portfolio management (PPM) to assure agile projects realize enterprise strategic objectives. This webcast will describe the multiple dimensions of “Agile PPM” and what organizations need to do to enable PPM agility in their Agile world.