Pretty Agile blog posts about Scaling Culture

Scaling Culture

Em Campbell-Pretty - October 02, 2020

It is hard to believe it has been over a year since the Pretty Agile team was at Agile 2019 in Washington D.C. where I had the pleasure of presenting "Learning from the Books You Said You Read…" with Melissa Hay as well as "Is There a Place Read more...

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Interviews

Tags: Agile2019, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Culture, Tribal Unity

Responsible Tech Starts with Culture

Em Campbell-Pretty - July 21, 2020

Culture is the shared attitudes, behavioural patterns, and values of human groups, teams and tribes. If we want our organisations to create sustainable products and services underpinned by integrity, trust and value, then we will need to build the Read more...

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Videos

Tags: Culture, Generative Culture, Scaling Culture, Tribal Unity

Agile Amped at the SAFe Summit: Tribal Unity & Scaling Human Relationships

Em Campbell-Pretty - October 11, 2017

At thie 2017 SAFe Summit in San Antonio, Texas I caught up with SolutionsIQ’s Leslie Morse. You can check out our Agile Amped podcast here:

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Interviews

Tags: ART Launch, Book Club, One Team Culture, Podcast, Safe Summit, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Culture, Tribal Unity

Learning from Re-Squadification

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 17, 2017

One of the things I love about the A&I Agile Release Train is their drive to learn. Following the Re-Squadification day the train held a focused retrospective in order to understand what had gone wrong and how they could avoid a reoccurrence of Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Release Train, Analytics Insights Agile Release Train, Autonomy, Chapters, Collaboration, Culture, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Scaling Culture, Self Selection, Spotify, Squadification

Facilitating Squadification for a SAFe Agile Release Train

Em Campbell-Pretty - January 25, 2017

Updated 6 February 2024 to reflect SAFe 6.0 terminology. The squadification day had arrived! We had management buy-in to using self-selection to create teams and a structure for our new Agile Release Train (ART). I turned up with my Time Read more...

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Tribal Unity

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Agile Teams, Identity, QuickStart, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Scaling Culture, ScrumMastery, Self Selection, Squadification, Team Building

From Teams to tribes: Creating a one-team culture in DevOps

Em Campbell-Pretty - November 10, 2015

Originally published on Tech Beacon (http://techbeacon.com/teams-tribes-creating-one-team-culture-devops) One of the challenges facing organizations wanting to move toward DevOps is the clash of cultures between dev and ops. In my view, Read more...

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Tribal Unity

Tags: Agile Release Train, DevOps, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Culture, Tribes

Video: From Teams to Tribes - Creating a "One Team" Culture

Em Campbell-Pretty - November 06, 2015

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Interviews

Tags: Agile Release Train, Agile Teams, Culture, EDW Release Train, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Scaling Culture, Tribes

Time to catch another train...

Em Campbell-Pretty - May 27, 2014

The time I spent leading the EDW team at Telstra has been the most incredible experience of my life. I have worked with some truly extraordinary people who made every day fun (even when it was very challenging!) I will be forever grateful for the Read more...

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Tribal Unity

Tags: Agile Release Train, Culture, EDW Release Train, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Scaling Culture, Tribes

Communication Cadence - The Heartbeat of Scaled Agile

Em Campbell-Pretty - March 25, 2014

In my life as a business sponsor of software development programs, I spent innumerable hours in program meetings - project status meetings, RAID meetings, Steering Committees, Governance meetings, “Come to Jesus meetings”, you name it. When I Read more...

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Tribal Unity

Tags: Agile Release Train, ART Sync, Blogs, Cocktail Hour, Collaboration, Communication, EDW Release Train, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Scaling Culture, Scrum of Scrums, Transparency, Tribes, Visualisation

Unity Day - Creating a One Team Culture

Em Campbell-Pretty - January 27, 2014

It recently occurred to me that I have yet to share the history and context of Unity Day, our often referenced iteration kick off event. Given the creation of Unity Day is actually one of the pivotal moments in the history of the EDW Release Read more...

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Tribal Unity

Tags: Agile Release Train, Agile Teams, Collaboration, Culture, EDW Release Train, Fun, High Performance Team, PI Planning, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Culture, Tribal Unity

Book Clubs at Work - Are You Serious?

Em Campbell-Pretty - October 13, 2013

As mentioned in a prior post, the idea for the EDW Agile Release Train came from reading Dean Leffingwell's Scaling Software Agility. A couple of months after reading the book, there was a restructure and I found myself leading the technology Read more...

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Tribal Unity

Tags: Book Club, Communication, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Leaning Culture, Culture, EDW Release Train, Leadership, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Culture, Team Building, Tribal Unity

Leading Through Vulnerability

Em Campbell-Pretty - July 24, 2013

When Jean Tabaka ran her Scaling Collaboration workshop with my team in June, she commented on how open the team was to the experience and asked us how we went about creating an environment where traditionally introverted software engineers Read more...

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Tribal Unity

Tags: Agile Release Train, Continuous Leaning Culture, EDW Release Train, Gemba, Leadership, Leading Change, Psychological Safety, Scaling Culture, Team Building, Transparency, Tribal Unity, Trust, Vulnerability

Inspiring Software Engineers to Embrace Facilitation

Em Campbell-Pretty - July 10, 2013

At the beginning of June, I travelled to Boulder, Colorado to attend and speak at RallyON 2013. This was my first time attending RallyON and I wasn't sure what to expect. I diligently downloaded the Spotme app as suggested by the event Read more...

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Tribal Unity

Tags: Agile Release Train, Collaboration, Continuous Leaning Culture, EDW Release Train, Facilitation, Scaling Culture, Self-organising Team, Tribal Unity

The Power of Haka

Em Campbell-Pretty - May 27, 2013

According to Wikipedia, the Haka “is a traditional ancestral war cry, dance or challenge... performed by a group, with vigorous movements and stamping of the feet with rhythmically shouted accompaniment.” When I attended Dean Leffingwell’s Read more...

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Tribal Unity