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Implementing Agile Transformation at Aegon Asset Management
Aegon Asset Management (AAM) is a global active investment manager that helps people achieve a lifetime of financial security. Led by ICON SPCT Charlene M. Cuenca, AAM began implementing SAFe in 2017 to align Business and IT on capacity and demand. In a year, AAM united their US, UK, and Netherlands divisions under one SAFe® Portfolio. They also created a Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) capability to encompass all 3 locations, which provided an unprecedented level of openness and transparency. Today, SAFe practices and principles are integral to AAM, whose employees visibly protect the Lean-Agile way of working.
Industry:
- Financial Services
Transformation Type:
- Full SAFe® Transformation
- Lean Portfolio Management
ICON Coaches:
- Charlene Cuenca
- Tom Boulet
Challenges:
- Align Business and IT on capacity and demand
- Keep teams synchronized across borders
- Reconfigure Global Architecture Organization
Solution:
- SAFe v4.5
- SAFe Agile Architecture Program
AAM Transformation Highlights:
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United 3 different portfolios under one global portfolio process with a robust LPM capability, reinvigorating the communication between 3 offices and increasing respect for each other
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Trained ⅓ of all AAM employees in SAFe (SAFe SM, SAFe POPM, SA, SP, RTE, leadership, architecture, SPC)
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Coached and started Agile HR concepts
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Formed a global enterprise LACE and an executive LACE (known as the Lean-Agile Transformation Teams, or the LATTe and the eLATTe)
Best Practices:
- SAFe Agile Architecture Program - view the positive results in the below webinar: "Coming Down from the Ivory Tower Agile Architecture with SAFe."
Partners:
- Scaled Agile, Inc.
“We saw SAFe as providing a unifying structure to get our different units working together in the same way.”
Case Study Aegon Asset Management | ICON explains agile transformation at Aegon
Coming Down from the Ivory Tower: Agile Architecture with SAFe®
This webinar covers the Aegon business agility case study, including:
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SAFe Architecture Concepts
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The AAM Transformation Story and how SAFe Agile Architecture was implemented
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Challenges and how they were overcome
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The AAM Architecture Team's current state and how it impacted the overall AAM Transformation (including metrics)