When empowerment and urgency come together, anything is possible.
Join four Agile leaders from CVS Health to learn how they banded together to form teams out of existing trains in order to tackle their monumental, and ever-evolving COVID response with the help of SAFe.
What does it look like when all roles across an operational value stream truly come together without the usual complexity and roadblocks that come with being in a large organization? How did they show up, lead with heart, and truly live their values? And what lessons were learned that other organizations can take away from this extraordinary experience?
“Having scaled Agile in place already prior to this happening helps create a lot of clarity and transparency on where we should identify people who already had all the skill sets that we needed to really achieve this. And then it set up like a common language to talk about things like priority and how to sequence work. And honestly just really live the values of SAFe even more so than the process of SAFe which I think is just a beautiful place to be.”
Presented at the 2021 Global SAFe Summit, October 2021 by:
- Caitlin Clifford, Senior Director of Digital Health Services /CVS Health
- Rebecca Davis, CVS Health Digital Lean Agile Practice Leader /CVS Health
- Matthew Huang, Senior Product Manager of Immunizations /CVS Health
- Randy Kendel, Release Train Engineer of Immunizations /CVS Health
- Interviewer: Michael Clarkin, CMO, Scaled Agile Inc.
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Reimagined technology and clinical workflows transform home care for members
Kaiser Permanente is one of America’s leading not-for-profit health care providers and not-for-profit health plans serving 12.5 million members.
Driven by new technologies and evolving expectations for patient convenience, the golden age of care at home may be just around the corner. Reimagined technology and clinical workflows will transform coordinated and patient-centered care for Kaiser Permanente members in the comfort of their own homes.
In this video, Agile coach Steven Archer and IT leader Kari Powelson share their SAFe journey and the “ART” of making SAFe work at KP. They will describe how their Care Delivery Technology Services and Clinical Operations development teams came together to build new software and workflows and set out to prove that KP Care at Home is the future of healthcare and that it can be a great experience for members and clinicians alike.
Presented at the 2021 Global SAFe Summit, October 2021 by:
- Kari Powelson, Executive Director IT Leader Home Care /Kaiser Permanente
- Steven Archer, Principal Agile Coach /Kaiser Permanente
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How SAFe and Business Agility helped FedEx respond to the impacts and opportunities of COVID-19
In this interview with Dean Leffingwell, FedEx CIO Rob Carter shares a rare look inside the world’s largest express transportation company. Rob describes their seven-year journey with SAFe and Agile, their approach to business agility and Lean Portfolio Management, and why alignment between the business and IT is so critical. Turning to the business impacts of the pandemic, Rob described how the company quickly responded to a dramatic increase in package volumes and application demand with a workforce working largely from home with the help of SAFe and Business Agility.
“One of the things that the pandemic has really presented to us is a set of rapid changes in marketplaces and needs, and frankly, you can’t fake it in the face of something like what we’ve all been through in this crazy world.” —Rob Carter.
Presented at the Global SAFe Summit, October, 2020.
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