Keep Your Agile Transformation Agile with Steve Adolph

Keep Your Agile Transformation Agile: Driving Growth with Value Delivery Accelerators

While many organizations achieve significant initial success with an agile transformation, the real journey begins with sustaining and enhancing that momentum. Agile frameworks are not a prescription or objective but a pathway to sustained business agility. Value Delivery Accelerators (VDAs) are a style of improvement experiment that sustains the vibrancy of the transformation and prevents stagnation. This session introduces VDAs, how to create and track them, and most importantly, how to learn with them. We share our client experience using VDAs and how we have integrated them as part of the learning culture. We'll introduce practical approaches for integrating VDAs into your retrospectives to ensure they actively drive meaningful learning and avoid becoming procedural formalities. This session aims to equip you with actionable, measurable strategies that can be immediately implemented to enhance the agility and responsiveness of your operations.
Key Takeaways:

• Explain how a transformation can go stale when initial agile practices become routine rather than responsive and how Value Delivery Accelerators (VDAs) can ensure your processes remain dynamic and responsive to change.
• Use VDAs to bring discipline and visibility to your continuous learning and improvement efforts. Learn how to write VDAs and how to measure and assess their impact.
• Explain how to enhance the common retrospective agenda and enable a team to monitor and learn if their VDAs yield the expected improvements or if it is time to pivot.

Steve is SAI’s Strategic Advisor for Canada helping SAI’s Canadian partners and clients use SAFe to work better and build the future. Steve’s been in this industry longer than he cares to think about, and if you remember Fortran, TTL, 8-bit logic, and can solder, then you’re probably in his demographic. Steve started his career actually doing engineering and building cool things like telephone switches and railway signaling systems. Around the late 90s, he was seduced by the dark side of a greater salary plus an office with a door that could close and moved into management. There, he became interested in how ways of working and organizational culture drive enterprise outcomes. Education-wise, Steve has a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering and is a SAFe SPCT. But despite that, he is still an OK guy. Steve lives in Canada’s other jewel by the sea, Vancouver, and enjoys the usual Pacific Northwest lifestyle of cycling, skiing, curling, and kayaking. There is an ugly rumour floating around that he is an opera fan.