Results of polls I ran during my Agile2016 talk about making SAFe safer using ideas from pull/invite based leadership/change management

1. 7/27/2016 How to make SAFe really safe using pull/invite change management Agile 2016 session polls results
https://www.polleverywhere.com/reports/105904 1/7
How to make SAFe really safe using pull/invite change
management Agile 2016 session polls results
Current run (last updated Jul 27, 2016 7:07pm)
8
Polls
57
Participants
30
Average responses
44%
Average engagement

2. 7/27/2016 How to make SAFe really safe using pull/invite change management Agile 2016 session polls results
https://www.polleverywhere.com/reports/105904 2/7
Responses
Pulling Teeth
Hard
Painful
QuickStart
Carefully
1‑2‑4
Aggravating
Prescriptive
It's Framework
Twist arms
Iterative incremental
Messy
Carefully
Complex
Hard
Incremental
executive support
Utopia
Complex
cool
Continuous flow
Demonstrate Success
Teaching coaching alignment
TrainEveryone
Hard
Teeth pulling
Resistance
Planned
Iteratively
Na
Chaotic
Big Bang = :(
Bezeirut
1‑2‑3
Respectfully
Detailed
Intentional thoughtfulness
Continuous
Big
Alignment
Overwhelming
Role dependent
Difficult
passionate
New
Gradual
necessary
Mysterious
Introduce one team
donkey
Align with business
Scheduling nightmare
Totally confused
Resistance
How would you describe the "Scaled Agile Framework Implementation Approach" in one 1-2 words?
77%
Engagement
68
Responses

3. 7/27/2016 How to make SAFe really safe using pull/invite change management Agile 2016 session polls results
https://www.polleverywhere.com/reports/105904 3/7
Be Careful
Different
Awesome
Implementing Agile across multiple teams with plan to execution over multiple sprints
Incrementally
:(
complex
Sofisticated
anti‑established‑culture
Confused
Pulling‑teeth
A
d
Features are not defined sufficiently
Response options Percentage
1 4%
2 43%
3 30%
4 13%
5 9%
How confident are you that this invitation-based-change can work on a SAFe Enterprise Agile
Transformation?
Count
1
10
7
3
2
40%
Engagement
23
Responses

4. 7/27/2016 How to make SAFe really safe using pull/invite change management Agile 2016 session polls results
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Response options Percentage
16%
16%
38%
0%
3%
16%
13%
Responses
Pull is cool
AgileSparks rocks
Which of these do you want to try?
Epiphanies?
Count
5
5
12
0
1
5
4
56%
Engagement
32
Responses
4%
Engagement
2
Responses

5. 7/27/2016 How to make SAFe really safe using pull/invite change management Agile 2016 session polls results
https://www.polleverywhere.com/reports/105904 5/7
Responses
What is our goal?
Agilesparks
Over customization
Poor business alignment
Roll of managers on self‑organized teams
Layoffs
What happens to my job?
can we make capacity for the teams
Will I lose control?
Dependencies
Properly identifying you value streams
Dependencies on teams that are not catching our release train ‑ will they be ready ?
Bi model and Tribes, other concepts that desire to be autonomous
How to encalhada avaliarem evaluate progress
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What are the key questions/risks we need to discuss when trying to apply SAFe here?
Which of these had the most impact on your transformation/s?
25%
Engagement
14
Responses
53%
Engagement
30
Responses

6. 7/27/2016 How to make SAFe really safe using pull/invite change management Agile 2016 session polls results
https://www.polleverywhere.com/reports/105904 6/7
Responses
D
No pull
Culture/management
lack of engagement and time from upper management
Priorities
Soloed teams
Openness to change
Chaos
Unbalanced teams
Lack of action
Culture
Lack of leadership support
Time
Seems too mandated.
Manager schedule
Individual Contributes not on board
the time required to educate people enough for them to give a smart vote
Some anchors may be unpopular
Engagement
running out of budget for transformation
Time
Team cliche
Lack of SAFe knowledge
time consuming
Budget
Maturity
Training
Time to truly adapt
The most resistant to change teams will never pull
Time
Manager_schedule
Management
No pull when no desire to start in the first place
Patience
Cross functional
Security
LackOfLeadershipSupport
Seems‑too‑mandated
What are you worried about?
53%
Engagement
38
Responses

7. 7/27/2016 How to make SAFe really safe using pull/invite change management Agile 2016 session polls results
https://www.polleverywhere.com/reports/105904 7/7
Responses
Large alignment exercise.
Agile for traditional orgs.
PI!
$$$Certify$$$
Go!
Far from it
Framework
Results
Mashup
Enterprise
Meh
Not‑Agile
SAI
$$$$$
Evil process
combine mode 1 and 2
alignment
Process
Dean
Cumbersome
Theory
Planning events
enterprise
Future
Tomato
Transformation
Complicated
Square
Forced conversations
Large scale
Governance
Community driven
Complex
When I say SAFe (The Scaled Agile Framework) you say -
46%
Engagement
33
Responses