In this short, interactive Lean Coffee with Dean Leffingwell, the creator and co-founder of the Scaled Agile Framework^® (SAFe), Dean presents his excellent musings and chalk-talk answers on the following topics:

• Critical Success Factors for a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence and Roadmap for Organizational Agility
• Roadmap for SAFe 6.0
• The Do's and Don'ts when implementing Lean Portfolio Management
  

Business agility is an increasingly important focal point for companies across all industries. It’s a necessity for survival, and this was true long before 2020. But now, in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, business agility is more important than it ever has been. If you want to stay ahead of your competition, then your entire organization must know how to adapt and innovate quickly when producing solutions at scale.

Before we discuss what you need to know about business agility in the time of COVID-19, this is the most important thing for you to keep in mind:

COVID-19 has been an unwelcome catalyst into fully remote teams, but making optimal use of technology to keep in lockstep with business agility is a powerful illustration of the agile mindset. Recently, a large financial services client pivoted in one week to a fully virtual SAFe^® PI-Planning event with great success. ICON Coach Gillian Evans acted as Solution Train Engineer, and so we asked her some questions about what to consider in a virtual PI Planning.