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Ethics Meets Agility:Scaled Agile's Approach to Achieving Responsible AI

This is an insightful webinar on "Ethics Meets Agility: Scaled Agile's Approach to Achieving Responsible AI" in which we discuss the essential principles and best practices for developing and deploying AI responsibly. Our experts, Dr. Steve Mayner and Doug Less, address the dual challenges of Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) and Fear of Messing Up (FOMU), offering strategies to harness AI's potential while mitigating risks.
 
A significant focus is on how the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) helps organizations achieve these goals and realize the benefits of AI in a responsible manner. By leveraging the same patterns, roles, and practices that enable business agility, SAFe provides a structured approach to integrate responsible AI practices into your enterprise transformation efforts.
Key Takeaways:

  • Importance of Responsible AI: Emphasizes the need for ethical and societal considerations in AI deployment to mitigate unintended consequences.

  • Balancing FOMO and FOMU: Offers strategies to leverage AI's potential while addressing the dual challenges of Fear of Missing Out (FOMO) and Fear of Messing Up (FOMU).

  • SAFe's Role in Responsible AI: Highlights how the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) can help integrate responsible AI practices into organizational transformation efforts.

  • Structured Approach for Business Agility: Discusses the use of SAFe's patterns, roles, and practices to achieve business agility while ensuring responsible AI deployment.

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Agile HR: Accelerator of Business Agility

HR is an often overlooked, underestimated, and underutilized Accelerator of Business Agility. Join us to discover the world of HR Agility and learn more about how to explore Agile HR further.

Charlene Cuenca, SPCT and SAFe Fellow at ICON Agility Services, is joined by Fabiola Eylozer, Co-Founder and Executive Advisor at JLS, and Deema Dajani, SAFe Fellow and Product Manager at Scaled Agile, to share the impact of HR in an agile transformation and answer questions live in this short webinar.

Inspect & Adapt: A Coach's Secrets For Optimizing Your Investment

In this session, Doug Less, SPCT from ICON Agility Services discusses how to unlock tangible rewards from I&A Events, and how to create the optimal setting for an I&A Event.

In this webinar we provided tips you can apply to your I&A Events along with the following:
  • Brief review of SAFe Inspect & Adapt Events 
  • Common challenges that lead to ineffective I&A results
  • Examples of the real impact I&A can have and why every leader should be invested
  • Guidance on preparing for I&A and including the right stakeholders
  • How TargetProcess can extract performance metrics in preparation for I&A Events
  • 4 Tips for uncovering the most valuable opportunities
  • Gain alignment on prioritizing and ensuring solution follow-through through leadership involvement

Awaken Value Flow: SAFe 6.0 with Dean Leffingwell

How can you continue to adapt and grow with the pace of change? One of the key aspects of the Scaled Agile Framework® is its dedication to continuous learning and relentless improvement. In the newest evolution of the framework, the focus on organization and the tools it needed to accelerate value flow continue to promote relentless improvement.
 
Join our SAFe Fellow, Kathy Marshak alongside Co-Founder of SAFe, Dean Leffingwell to learn all about what exciting ways the new evolution of SAFe will save your organization time and money.

 

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Lean Coffee with Dean Leffingwell and Doug Less

In this session, Dean Leffingwell joins ICON's own Doug Less, SPCT in a great audience-led Lean Coffee discussion where they explore the attendee topic submissions and cover as much as they can in this 1-hour event.

Watch this great discussion on-demand today where the audience chose the speaking points in the world of Scaled Agile Framework.

 

LPM in Practice | "Strategize" - Aligning Your Portfolio Vision

 
The implementation of Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) is on the rise across private and public sectors. How do you ensure the LPM implementation gains momentum and sustains it? In a year-long research study, across multiple organizations, we were able to identify success patterns in starting and operating LPM. In this conversation, SPCT Deema Dajani from Scaled Agile, and SPCT Candidate Danielle Gerber from ICON Agility Services, will share select LPM success patterns observed in the field. The conversation, moderated by Daylon Walton, Business Agility Strategist with ICON, will start with weaving in change leadership principles, and a fresh look at roles and engagement in LPM.

This conversation will focus on:
  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • The LPM Kickoff
  • Working with leaders during the ‘Strategize’ step in the LPM implementation journey

Setting up your OKRs for success in 2022

Daylon Walton moderated a second OKR discussion between ICON Coach, Veronica Stewart, and Ally.io Strategic Services Manager, Wendy Pat Fong. They walk through best practices for reflecting and planning OKRs in a systematic way, including questions to ask and actions to take towards a rinse-and-repeat planning process you can rely on each year.

Tips include:

  • How to reflect holistically as an organization that combines people, strategy, and process– translating into sustainable practices for 2022
  • How to convert reflection and planning into action and prioritize your objectives for 2022
  • How to use these learnings for both OKR and Agile frameworks, to set baselines and focus on your people first

5 Landmines to Avoid When Implementing OKRs and Agile Transformation

Join us and our partners at Ally.io for an exceptional OKR conversation

During this conversation you will learn:

  • The tangible benefits of having an aligned organization and the 5 key landmines to avoid when it comes OKRs and agile transformation.
  • How agile transformation and business strategy go hand in hand when setting company-wide objectives
  • How you can adopt OKRs in any phase of your agile journey
  • How to transform your business practices from general output to accelerated revenue-driving outcomes

A Deep Dive into the 4 Dimensions of the SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline | Part 4: Release on Demand

Are you pressured to deliver high-quality products quickly but often fall behind, unable to meet consumer demand? Maybe there is too much rework slowing things down. Or maybe conflict is arising from the fact that your goals and incentives are vastly different from the other teams’. ICON Agility Services and Scaled Agile, Inc. takes a deep dive into the SAFe Continuous Delivery Pipeline and how to apply DevOps effectively to your value streams. 

Top 5 Post-Pandemic Business Problems & How To Solve Them With Business Agility

Coming out of the pandemic, companies find themselves facing another 'new normal', resulting in the call for the latest future-fit strategies to continue to be adaptive, creative, and resilient. Adaptive companies are going to find the need to explore frameworks and techniques that heighten their Business Agility such as SAFe, DevSecOps, Design Thinking, OKRs, and Lean/Agile practices. By pursuing an Agile Business Model at an organizational level, you can give your business the adaptability necessary to both survive and thrive in this unprecedented environment.