1. What are two primary reasons to change?

 - A burning platform

 - The company is failing to complete and the existing way of working is

inadequate to achieve a new solution in time.

2. Proactive leadership

 - In the absence of a burning platform, leadership must create the

sense of urgency to proactively drive change by taking a stand for a

better, future state

3. Why should you establish the vision for change?

 - Without a good vision, a clever strategy or logical plan can rarely

inspire the kind of action needed to produce major change.

4. www.scaledagileframework.com/invitation-based-safe-implementation/ -

5. Little's Law -

6. When you find a value stream, go all in and all at once for each ART. The oneweek launch is proven adoption model.

 - Quickstart approach to ART Launch

i. SAFe for Teams

1. Monday, Tuesday

ii. PI Planning

1. Wednesday, Thursday

iii. Workshops

1. Friday

7. Three benefits of Big Room Training

 Accelerated learning

 A common scaled Agile paradigm

 Cost efficiency

8. What is the importance of the first PI Planning?

 First Impression of SAFe

 Generating a short-term win

 Builds the Art as a team

 Teaches teams about assuming responsibility for planning and delivery

 Creates visibility into the program

 Creates confidence in the commitment of Lean-Agile Leaders to the

transformation

9. Things to remember when prepping for distributed team PI Planning

 1. Have a dedicated facilitator and tech support person at each location

 Test Audio, video, and presentation-sharing connectivity, and then test it

again

 Have a common understanding of how plans will be shared (video, wiki,

email, etc)

 Establish team- based audio/video communication for breakout

sessions.

10.What type of PI Planning agenda is recommended for large time zone

differences ?

 2.5 days, following respect people and cultures, we want to avoid

asking teams to stay up all night

11.What does train the leaders do?

 Helps them create the mindset they need to empower employees for

further action

12.What does training the stakeholders do?

 Gives the Stakeholders the skills and motivation the need to change the

organization.

13.Which is the most important ART to launch?

i. the first one.

14.What does the ART as a team of teams do?

 removes Silos that inhibit flow

15.What can you find in the ART readiness workbook?

 Readiness Checklist

 Team Summary

 Team Roster

 Program Roster

 Content

 Facilities

 Supplies

16.What is the next step once the Lean-Agile change Agents have been trained?

 Train Executives, Managers, Leaders

17.What do you do after Executives, Managers, and leaders have been trained?

 Identify the Value steams.

18.What is the next step after the value stream has been identified?

 Create the implementation Plan

19.What happens after the implementation plan has been created?

 Prepare for Art Launch. Train Scaled Agile(Leading SAFe), POPM,

SSM.

20.What is the step that follows Preparing for the ART launch?

 Train Teams and launch the ART

21.Once the teams have been trained what is the next step?

 Coach ART Execution

22.Once you have coached Art execution what do you do next?

 Launch more ARTS and Value streams