| Event | Type | Location | Date | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driving the Flow of Value | Coaching, Training | Houston | 2019-12-17 | Workshop looking at how we define value and how we deliver value quickly |
| Cross-organization Value Stream Analysis | Coaching | Houston | 2019-12-02 | Work to improve the flow of value that touches to organizations without an restructuring |
| SenseMaking Workshop | Coaching, Training | Houston | 2019-11-11 | Excellent workshop lead by Dan Walsh (FiveWhyz). A better way to understand if your culture is improving. |
| Five Dysfunctions Workshop with Leadership | Coaching | Houston | 2019-11-07 | Improving teamwork of leadership group |
| Project Simulation Training | Training, Participating | Houston | 2019-11-05 | Projects community training to understand changes in approach as a result of agile |
| Introduce OKRs to Portfolio Management process | Coaching | Houston | 2019-10-28 | Experiment to add OKRs into existing LPM process in time for 2020 to improve organizational alignment |
| Agile Assessment | Learning | Washington, DC | 2019-10-21 | Assessment to understand current state of thinking, and provide recommendations for change |
| Business Agility Workshop | Coaching | Houston | 2019-10-07 | Direct business request to help them become more Agile |
| SAFe Summit | Attend | San Diego | 2019-10-02 | Learning opportunity. SAFe v5 released |
| Update Business Metrics for FI | Coaching | Worldwide | 2019-09-05 | Base metrics that were agreed to previously need to be updated to reflect current thinking |
| Blog “So You Want Set Up a Business as an Agile Coach?” | Blog Post | Worldwide | 2019-09-01 | 12 part series on the steps you should take to set up an Agile business. HansSamios: So You Want Set Up a Business as an Agile Coach?; FiveWhyz: So You Want Set Up a Business as an Agile Coach?. |
| FI Team Churn Analysis | Coaching | Worldwide | 2019-08-28 | What happens to Team performance when Teams have turnover (churn) in their people? |
| Kick-off Coaches Craft CoP | Coaching | Worldwide | 2019-08-20 | Beyond Foundation Infrastructure group |
| Quarterly Alignment Session | Coaching, Participating | Houston | 2019-08-13 | Included retrospective, and introduction to OKRs |
| Projects Team Enablement | Coaching | Houston | 2019-07-24 | Response to survey. “Drain the glass” session |
| Blog “Why Do People Overcommit?” | Blog Post | Worldwide | 2019-07-08 | HansSamios: Why Do People Overcommit?; FiveWhyz: Why Do People Overcommit? |
| PI Planning | Coaching | Buenos Ares | 2019-06-26 | Service group. SAFe event. |
| Portfolio Synchronization Session | Coaching | Houston | 2019-06-12 | Multi-day alignment session |
| “Drain the Glass” session for new Transformation | Coaching | Houston | 2019-06-10 | Setup session to work pent up resentments |
| “Leveraging Agile Thinking for Sustainability” | Coaching | Dallas | 2019-06-03 | Session for Sustainability Leadership Forum. |
| Cynefin Practice Foundations | Learning, Supporting | Houston | 2019-05-30 | Excellent workshop lead by Dan Walsh (FiveWhyz) |
| Blog “I have opportunity to learn so much when you are on vacation.” | Blog Post | Worldwide | 2019-09-01 | FiveWhyz: I have opportunity to learn so much when you are on vacation. |
| Coaching Team Face to Face | Coaching | Houston | 2019-05-07 | Coaching team for FI working on the plan for sustainment model for the organization |
| FI Quarterly LPM Face to Face | Coaching | Houston | 2019-04-30 | Portfolio prioritization and learning (outcome vs output). Full suite of Product Managers, Release Train Engineers in the room. All (22 FI) coaches in the room to understand how these meetings work |
| FI Product Manager Orientation | Coaching | Houston | 2019-04-29 | Orient Product Managers to LPM and leverage opportunity to do some roles and responsibilities |
| Architect Orientation Workshop | Coaching / Training | Houston | 2019-04-26 | 2 X sessions to help Architects get situated in their new role. Based on SAFe and discussion at How Does The Role of Architect Change in Agile? |
| FI Projects Team Enablement envisioning / planning | Coaching | Houston | 2019-04-26 | Develop base plan for this transformation |
| Initial PI Planning (Big Room) for Data Center Compute Product | Coaching | Houston | 2019-04-24 | Big room Planning event for large Train. SAFe event. |
| Initial PI Planning (Big Room) for Branch Product | Coaching | Houston | 2019-04-24 | Big room Planning event for large Train. SAFe event. |
| Sense-making Experiment | Learning | Houston | 2019-04-11 | Learning about different approach to gathering data from a complex system. Cool. |
| Staff Development Guardrails Session | Coaching | Worldwide | 2019-04-03 | Session for newly formed staff development group to discuss developments we are seeing, and offer opportunity to address issues seen by our managers. |
| Employee motivation Webinar | Learning | Online | 2019-03-14 | Online seminar. My notes are at “You Can Enhance Employee Motivation in 10 Minutes by Friday” - Gregg Lederman |