Keeping Culture SAFe

RSStone

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has provided one of the most accepted and widely used methods with which to scale agility within an organization.  It also inherently calls upon the delivery of value to the customer.  While value is typically encapsulated within the value stream, through areas such as vision and UX, one word that cannot be found anywhere within the framework is "culture".

This talk explores how consideration of culture and the target user(s) can dramatically shift the direction of a project, value stream or business. It also covers how this influences the vision and UX design within a portfolio.  It will cover the cost of refactoring legacy code that did not consider target demographics when initially conceived, as well as some of the UX Research methods, such as Ethnography, that can be used to build cultural consideration within your business model.

It will help people focus on a larger picture than just a team, project, program or portfolio approach to the end user... that end users themselves function as a system of systems that needs to be considered.

The talk is primarily aimed at intermediate practitioners:

  • ScrumMasters

  • Developers

  • UX Content Strategists

  • Product Owners

  • CEOs

  • Biz Dev

  • UX Researchers

  • UX Designers

  • SAFe Practitioners

This session will be of interest to those with intermediate experience who work in UX, Agile, Business or Portfolio Vision/Management and who have an interest in how culture can be considered in SAFe and other Scaled Agile approaches.

Session Track

UX/Content Strategy

Experience Level

Intermediate

Drupal Version

When & Where

Time: 
Thursday, 27 April, 2017 - 13:30 to 14:00
Room: 
307 - Acquia