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Measure & Grow with AgilityHealth & Scaled Agile

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• Founder of AgilityHealth®• Frequent industry speaker on measurement

and talent development• 2+ decades of experience in enterprise business

agility transformation market• Founder AgileVideos.com• Mother, Entrepreneur, Activist

Sally ElattaAgilityHealth® CEO, Founder


• Andrew has been supporting organizations with their Agile transformation for more than 10 years, drawing on his experiences from software development, project management, and product management.

• He previously led Agility Services across EMEA for CA Technologies (formerly Rally)

• Member of the Scale Agile Framework team and Principal Contributor to the Scaled Agile Framework.

• His current postgraduate research explores how organizational structure impacts organizational agility

Andrew SalesSAFe Fellow, Principal Consultant & Contributor


Agenda

4Measure and Grow Overview

4Opportunities for Applying Measure and Grow

4Getting Started with Measure and Grow

4Overview & Demo of AgilityHealth

4Measure & Grow Case Study

4Q&A

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Measure and Grow Overview


The Journey Toward Business Agility

Agile Business

Business Agility is the ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by

quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with

innovative business solutions.


Measure and Grow Toward Business Agility

Measure and Grow is the way portfolios evaluate their progress towards business agility and determine their next improvement steps.


The Seven Core Competencies of Business Agility

Each core competency is a

set of related knowledge,

skills, and behaviours, which

together enable enterprises

to achieve business agility by

delivering the best quality

and value in shortest

sustainable lead time.


Measuring Overall Business Agility

Setting the Improvement Strategy with the Business Agility Assessment4Measure overall progress on the goal of true

Business Agility

4Perfect for understanding the main improvement themes

4Determine what you need to focus on and reduce WIP

4Adjust where we are making investments

4Locate where in the organization the improvements are needed

Business Agility Assessment


Going Deeper with the Core Competency Assessments

4Understanding the trends in the data

4Independently assess at a particular level of the framework

4Driving localized improved aligned to overall improvement strategy

4Identifying actionable improvements

4Assessing the results of a focused improvement effort

Agile Product Delivery

Team and Technical

Agility

Enterprise Solution Delivery

Lean Agile Leadership

Lean Portfolio Management

Continuous Learning Culture

Organizational Agility




Adapting your SAFe implementation plan

4Integrate the findings into your implementation roadmap

4Develop the transformation roadmap incrementally and intentionally

4Validate the right pace of change

4Compare and respond to industry benchmarks

A three-PI rolling implementation roadmap


Opportunities for Measure and Grow


Example opportunities to Measure and Grow

Scenario 1: Create a business agility baseline


1: Create a Business Agility Baseline

4Leadership, LACE, Business Owners and members of the ART

4Helps to build the urgency for change

4Identifies possible short-term wins

4Results may influence the choice of the first ART as well as ART design

4Creates the possibility for trending improvements further down the road

Business Agility


Example opportunities to Measure and Grow


Scenario 2: Support ART and Team improvement


2: Support ART and Team improvement

4Can be used by the team and trains as part of their retrospectives and Inspect and Adapt

4Use the assessments to identify the root causes for problems they may be facing

4Evolve the ART improvement roadmap

4Can also be used across the LACE to identify which Teams and ARTs need more support

Team and Technical Agility

Agile Product Delivery


Example Opportunities to Measure to Grow



Scenario 3:Implenent Lean Portfolio Management


3. Implement Lean Portfolio Management

4Guide your Lean Portfolio Management implementation and the associated practices

4Ensure the ARTs are focusing on the most important initiatives and aligned to the strategy

4Identify improvement items for the Executives and Leadership teams

Lean Portfolio Management

Lean Agile Leadership


Example Opportunities to Measure to Grow



Scenario 4: Accelerate to business agility

Scenario 3:Implenent Lean Portfolio Management


4: Accelerate towards business agility

4Assess on a regular cadence

4Celebrate and amplify successes and maintain motivation for change

4Create a continuous learning culture that embeds improvement and innovation

4Extend agility wider across the organization

Organizational Agility

Continuous Learning Culture


Getting Started with Measure and Grow


SAFe Community Platform


Measure and Grow Workshop Overview

Facilitating a SAFe Assessment1.5 – 2 hours

Analyzing Results1 hour

Identifying Improvement Opportunities1.5 – 2 hours

1

4-5 hrsSuggested timebox

2

3


Approaches to Facilitating the SAFe Assessments

Act then discuss Agree then act

• Collect data in a workshop setting or via a survey

• Capture all individual data points• Ensure participants are familiar with

SAFe terminology

• Facilitated in a workshop setting• Discuss statements and assess as

a group• Ensures alignment around the

statements


SAFe Community Platform

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LIVE DEMO of COMMUNITY PLATFORMhttps://community.scaledagile.com/s/measure-and-grow-agility-health

AgilityHealth Overview

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What is the AgilityHealth® Platform?AgilityHealth® is the world’s leading

measurement & continuous improvement platform for accelerating the maturity and productivity

of teams and enterprises.

GrowMeasure Accelerate


6 Capabilities of AgilityHealth®

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The Three Metrics That Matter

Performance Collected via Agile Work Mgmt. Platforms

MaturityCollected via Team

Assessments/Radars within AgilityHealth

OutcomesOutcomes/OKR Dashboard

Outcomes are THE Metrics that MatterMaturity and Performance tell us WHY we’re not achieving outcomes.


Measurement Challenges


Facilitated RetrospectivesMEASURE & GROW RETROSPECTIVE: A retrospective that aims to help teams reflect on their last quarter or release and improve the

next one. Facilitated by certified AgilityHealth® Facilitators.

Analyze real-time radar and textual responses. Have “real” conversations

STEP

2

Build actionable growth plan forthe team and for their leaders

STEP

3

Team memberscomplete the assessment on their phone or laptop

STEP

1

Duration: ~ 3-4 hrsRepeat: Every PIPulse Check: Every sprint

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Community Kiosk vs Full PlatformScaled Agile Community Kiosk Full AgilityHealth Platform

ü No account setup neededü Complete assessments individually or

as a group – no limitü Compare results with benchmarkü Access GROWS and SAFe

recommendationsü Keep data for 30 days

ü Company and user account setupü Complete assessment individually or as a teamü Compare results with benchmarkü Access GROWS and SAFe recommendationsü Keep data for yearsü Build growth action plan for teams and leadersü Measure growth overtimeü Rollup and view results at train, portfolio or enterprise levelü Pulse checks (frequent shorter)ü Integration with ALMS (Jira, Rally ..etc) ü Align teams to outcomes/OKRsü Build customized GROWS using the Growth Portalü Develop talent with role based radarsü Enterprise security, dedicated database and single sign-on

Measure & Grow Case Study


● Leveraging SAFe for 3+ years | 90+ teams

● I&A using PowerPoint and Excel

● No visibility into common patterns across teams

● Can’t hire more capacity, need to get current teams to deliver higher output aligned to value

● The Challenge


Multi-Team Rollup at

Train Level


Captured The Voice Of Our Teams

“No Roadmap, No vision, we feel orphaned.”“We've had throw-away work from frequently changing backlog.”

“Stop changing intent after sprint starts.”

“It would be good to know why we are doing certain things? How do we know we’ve succeeded?”

“No visibility beyond a few weeks.”

“Can we know what will happen after the 1-3 week horizon?”

“We did a lot of work, but business priority changed and it was never pushed to production. There was no value for a lot of our effort.”

“Team wants to be part of vision, PO plays too many roles.”

“What will our work produce?”

“Let us switch projects when intent is paused or blocked.”

“We want 2-3PIs worth of roadmap (18 weeks!).”

“What is the value of our work?”

“Want to understand why and how of roadmap priorities.”

“There are no measures of success.”

“We understand our day-to-day tasks but would like to know what is driving these epics?”

“Unstable vision, frequent priority and timeline shifts.”


Over 900 Growth Items, 386 Organizational

Identified Areas to Improve5

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Monthly Release Plan Vision & Purpose Qtrly Roadmaps Predictable Delivery Impediment Mgmt.

We have a plan for the next few iterations but it changes so frequently

We have clarity on our teams purpose and our customer

needs

We have a rough plan but it’s not shared with

the team

We do not have a steady velocity,

throughput or cycle time

Dependencies and impediments are

effectively resolved

Impediment Management

Allocation & Stability Roadmaps Leadership Innovation &

LearningReduce external dependencies

(73 OGI’s)

Fill open roles and keep teams stable

(52 OGI’s)

Create, communicate and maintain clear

roadmaps (47 OGI’s)

Practice servant leadership, be

transparent (57 OGI’s)

Allocate time for team members to innovate and learn (30 OGI’s)


Analyzed Insights, Correlation and Impact

Target growth in these areas and look for an improvement in Performance

in Predictable Delivery, Time to Market Value Delivered

Related Areas of Opportunity in PO leadership, planning

and clarity on the vision


Executed on Improvements at all Levels


Agility Insights & ROI

More Predictable

Delivery

Work Aligned to Strategy & Roadmap

EPICs delivered in 30 days increased

by 267%

Focused teams were able to deliver 5

additional teams work!

Backlogs ‘ready’

reduced churn

Conclusion & Next Steps


Lessons We’ve Learned at Scale• Invest in ‘Continuous Improvement’, not assessments and surveys!• Develop a strategy for rolling out this program

• Engage senior leaders from the start, share the WHY• Ensure your AHF’s have strong facilitation skills

• Measure and Grow can inform change, but it requires leadership to commit to action

• Use AgilityHealth within the Inspect & Adapt• Enable Scrum Masters to make AgilityHealth measure & grow retrospectives

become part of their regular ceremonies

• Enable teams to help themselves grow, support on-demand as needed and use data to decide where to invest

• Decentralize the ability to assess, everyone should do it


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What’s Next? How to Start the Journey

1. Try the free kiosk assessment on the SAFe community site

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