LACE Program Increment 7 Accomplishment

Objectives: 

1) Create community awareness of LACE Services by integrating the content into the LACE Confluence Space by making the service catalog public, and creating cross-linking between site content and the service catalog so users can find services relevant to their interests, trainings and other complimentary services.

2) Create a presentation slide in preparation for Qnet Chat where LACE will be providing an overview of its marketing and service offering to the CCSQ Community.

3) Provide and deliver scaled agile framework "Leading SAFe" to the CCSQ Community by educating participants about frameworks and business agility practices to start leading a lean-Agile enterprise.

Jira Stories:

Value Delivery 

Objectives:

• Support the growth and development of Agile at the enterprise level by developing content and identifying speakers for the upcoming community of practice
• Support the growth and development of Agile at the enterprise level by informing the community of the LACE Service offerings in the QNET Chat
• Support the acceleration of delivery in the iQies program by updating the program improvement plan based on feedback from PM3 and Federal Program Managers
• Increase the LACE's understanding of our customers through the development of the Federal Program Manager Persona
• Improve the content of the LACE space, Comms hub, and joint COE space to showcase the ways the LACE can support the community

Jira Stories:

Weekly Highlight LACE:

• LACE Presented at QNET Chat on 2/2 and promoted LACE New Services
• Deployed Initial communication of LACE Service offering email to CCSQ Community
• LACE offered Study Hall Session for “Leading SAFe” session # 1
• Worked on identifying Guest Speakers for upcoming LACE CoP on 2/16 (Measuring the Enterprise)
• Cross-linking and navigation for onboarding guide
• Documented updates for Communication Hub Space in confluence, to reflect new services in our LACE Space
• Built Federal Program Manager Persona
• LACE developed content and presentation for Measuring the Enterprise Community Event
• LACE and HCD worked on understanding iQIES program retro and closed Featured this week.
• Added 2023 Program Increment(s) to dashboard Reports.
• Worked with QMVIG Leadership on support, coordination, training, logistics, and invites for 02/09

Objectives 

1) Training Development, Delivery, and Collaborative Learning

• Help QMVIG Division understand how lean and agile can benefit the quality measure and development cycle. 
• Assist participants to increase knowledge and understanding of how to apply the scaled agile framework in preparation for Leading SAFe certification exam
• Help the community and stakeholders to understand the goal of the value stream mapping course

2) Enterprise Standards and Dashboards

• Respond to community inquiry about portfolio team dashboard
• Standardization of onboarding for new ADO's with recommended Jira project configurations that align with Enterprise Reporting 

3) Marketing and Communication

• Increase the LACE's understanding of our customers through the development of the SMT Persona & the Federal Product Manager Persona
• Help community awareness about LACE service offering and LACE Community of Practice 

Weekly Highlight: 

• Training Development, Delivery, and Collaborative Learning

• Held second Study Hall Session for “Leading SAFe” to assist participants to expand their knowledge and understanding of how to apply SAFe in preparation for the certification exam
• Developed course objectives content deck training for upcoming Value Stream Mapping to provide the community and stakeholders an understanding of the goal of the value stream mapping course.
• Created a survey for customized training to collect data and customer experience

• Program Support

• Delivered QMVIG customized training to DQM Division with over 20 federal attendees, which aims at teaching how to apply Agile principles in non-IT development areas.

• Enterprise Standards and Dashboards

• Responded to community request about portfolio team dashboard for D&A team
• Designed resolution workflow analysis and documentation for CCSQ Enterprise and Standard practices, which will aid standardization of onboarding for new ADOs with recommended Jira project configurations that align with Enterprise Reporting

• Marketing and Communication

• Deployed email and Slack channel communications for upcoming LACE CoP, keeping the community up to date on collaboration opportunities
• Updated description in Confluence and sign ups in Eventbrite of Agility Foundations and Value Stream Mapping courses
• Identified guest speakers for lighting talk format LACE CoP on Measuring the Enterprise 2/16, to make the event more collaborative.
• Built SMT (Solution Management Team) role and Federal Product Manager personas to increase LACE’s understanding of our customers and thus design better services
• Mapped courses and services to personas to increase community awareness about LACE service offering and markets

Objectives 

1) Training Development, Delivery, and Collaborative Learning

• Invited the community to join in a discussion about metrics to raise awareness of and support leadership's upcoming vision of metrics for CCSQ in the 2023 Quarter 1 community of practice, "Measuring the Enterprise".

• Completed content for the sold-out "Agility Foundation" course on 07 Mar 2023 

2) Program Support

• Observed the Data & Analytics PI Planning Event on 13 Feb 2023 and 14 Feb 2023 
  

3) Enterprise Standards and Dashboards

• Investigate changing counts on the All ART Team's Backlog Composition at PI Start to make sure all ART teams using the Enterprise Dashboards have accurate data across Jira and eazyBI

Jira Stories:

Weekly Highlight:

• Training Development, Delivery, and Collaborative Learning
• Facilitated Q1 LACE Community of Practice topic “Measuring the Enterprise” with 37 participants across CCSQ to join in a discussion about metrics to raise awareness of and support leadership’s upcoming vision of metrics for CCSQ in 2023.
• Completed content development for the sold-out "Agility Foundation" course on March 7, 2023.
• Completed preparation for SAFe POPM course with the aim of providing better collaborative experience and communication.

• Program Support

• Observed the Data & Analytics PI Planning Event on Feb 13, 2023, and Feb 14, 2023, and documented notes and improvement opportunities in Confluence (PI Planning Program Checklist).
• Scheduled QMVIG Customized training session # 2 with DQM Division for March 2, 2023, to continue to help DQM team to improve their agile practices as non-development teams.

• Marketing and Communication

• Deployed communications on Slack of upcoming SAFe Product Manager and Product Owner training.
• Created a confluence page for the Community of Practice where the CCSQ Community will have access with information about the session, lightning talk sessions, and speaker’s presentation.
• Created Polls and Survey responses to collect data about the CoP event to gauge interest in future topics and user experience with CoP

Objectives 

1) Training Development, Delivery, and Collaborative Learning

• Delivery of the 2 days SAFe course POPM 
• Create exercises and use the right template for the "Agility Foundation" course on 07 Mar 2023 

2) Program Support

3) Enterprise Standards and Dashboards

• Investigate changing counts on the All ART Team's Backlog Composition at PI Start to make sure all ART teams using the Enterprise Dashboards have accurate data across Jira and eazyBI

4) Marketing and Communication

• Post-event information from the CoP is shared via the LACE Slack channel
  

Jira Stories:

Value Delivery 

Weekly Highlight:

• Training Development, Delivery, and Collaborative Learning

• Delivered SAFe certified Product Owner and Product Manager 2-day course to 13 attendees (45% federal and 55% contractors), increasing agility knowledge across CCSQ and supporting a common agile language.
• Prepared logistics for students to get access to exams and practice this week.
• Developed Mural Exercise space for the upcoming “Agility Foundations” course on March 7th to ensure the participants have a greater learning experience and hands-on remote tools use.

• Program Support

• Prepared QMVIG customized training material for the 2nd session (March 2nd), with an improved group exercise
• Reviewed DQAIMS Program on an initiative from ISG about Portfolio Budget new project to leverage team and program-level dashboards
• Presented Data and Analytics PI Planning improvement recommendations to team’s RTE

• Enterprise and Standards

• Investigated changing counts on the program dashboard (All ART Teams' Backlog Composition at PI Start), in support of consistency in reporting
• Created and submitted Leadership Survey to CMS Point of Contact to begin socializing it with the leadership team

• Marketing and Communication

• Posted post-event information and materials on the LACE Slack channel for the LACE Community of Practice
• Created spreadsheet metrics to collect data from attendance from POPM training
• Created and distributed LACE training certificates for this week's training

Objectives 

1) Training Development, Delivery, and Collaborative Learning

• First Study Hall Session for “SAFe for POPM” to assist participants to expand their knowledge and understanding of how to apply SAFe in preparation for the certification exam
• Complete the Agility foundation training by adding exercises, reviewing the content, and making sure it is using the right template
• Build the Value Stream Mapping training to increase know-how on the topic within our community
• Investigate options for maintaining an automated waitlist for requested training sessions
• Update the LACE course catalog page to include Value stream mapping training with valid information about the course and goals for the CCSQ community 

2) Program Support

• Facilitate a second session to help QMVIG DQM Division understand how lean and agile can benefit the quality measure and development cycle  
• Identify teams that will participate in the LACE Agility radar survey by communicating and providing support if needed to the Scrum Masters of these teams

Jira Stories:

Value Delivery 

Objectives 

1) Training Development, Delivery, and Collaborative Learning

• Second Study Hall Session for “SAFe for POPM” to assist participants to expand their knowledge and understanding of how to apply SAFe in preparation for the certification exam
• Delivery of LACE Explained: Agility Foundation

2) Program Support

• Observed the EQRS PI Planning Event on March 8, 2023, and March 9, 2023, and documented notes and improvement opportunities in Confluence (PI Planning Program Checklist).
• Observed the IQIES Program PI Planning Event on March 8, 2023, and March 9, 2023, and documented notes and improvement opportunities in Confluence (PI Planning Program Checklist).

3) Enterprise Standards and Dashboards

• Standardization of onboarding for new ADO's with recommended Story and Enabler workflows that align with Enterprise Reporting
• Providing step process and timelines for RTE internal training offerings as part of LACE and PM3

4) Marketing and Communication

• Value Stream Mapping and SAFe for Government community reminder to register via slack. 

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