Your humble blogger by the numbers
I am an enterprise agility coach, agnostic Agilist, culture hacker, value stream miner, and value-focused strategic/tactical disruptor.
Full profile: linkedin.com/in/marshallguillory/
Future planned:
2023
- SAFe Summit Nashville
Past:
- 2022
- Scaled Agile Peer Connect 2022 – Driving Business Agility with Value Stream Management with Chris Ruch and the Agile Rising team

- Enterprise Agility World Conference Podcast
- Atlassian Team Tour Government – March 1-3rd
- SAFe Business Agility Podcast—Episode #76 – February 8. Team Design Strategy, Team Formation & Self-Selection with Tiffany Mendoza
- SAFe Webinar – Lean Portfolio Management in Practice – Expert Panel – February 15

- 2021
- SAFe Summit – Creating Great Teams with Team Topologies
- SAFe Day Government – Customer Story: Agile Rising – A Transformation Ride through the FAA to VA to NASA – February 10
- 2020
- Scaled Agile Webinar – Remote Guidance: Keeping Teams Engaged
- Agile Atelier Podcast – General SAFe discussion – May 21
- Carnegie Mellon SEI Agile Collaboration Group – What’s new in SAFe 5.0 + Remote Teaching and Networked PI Planning + Government Business Case Retro – March 19
- 2019
- 2018
- Oklahoma City Agile Alliance – What’s new in SAFe 4.6 – December 13
- OrgMindset Podcast with Alex Yakyma on the topic of psychological safety in organizations
- AOS Group Coaching Week 10 – Q&A on how to engage executives to support organizational transformation
- OrgMindset Enterprise Coach – Feedback Marker learning panel
- Leading SAFe 4.5 and SAFe Scrum master instructed internally as part of a new Essential SAFe implementation at the University of Oklahoma Information Technology division – January 8-11
- Oklahoma City Agile Alliance – What’s new in SAFe 4.6 – December 13
- 2017
- vlog with Alex Yakyma about Lean Portfolio Management (LPfM), impediments to successful implementation, some anti-patterns, and discussion about Org Mindset thought leadership.
- SAFe® Foundations presentation at the University of Oklahoma, November 17, 2017
- Agile Online Summit. I spoke at the summit about the importance of gaining full support of the executive team prior to beginning a holistic organizational transformation.
- Public: SAFe® Scrum master in VA for TetraTech and i360 Technologies, August 2017
- Public: Leading SAFe® 4.5 in VA for TetraTech and i360 Technologies, August 2017
- 2016
- 7 Scaled Agile SAFe® courses instructed internally for the FAA
- Many Lean-Agile and IT courses/workshops instructed internally with clients
- 2015
- Many Lean-Agile and IT courses/workshops instructed internally with clients
- 2014
- Many Lean-Agile and IT courses/workshops instructed internally with clients
- 2013
- Many Lean-Agile and IT courses/workshops instructed internally with clients
- August 20 – Webinar discussing the effective use of Scrum with global teams.
- 2012
- Founded Synergy Agile Process Solutions – a boutique consulting shop serving the Phoenix, AZ area
- 2010 – Various as a member and Executive Vice-President (2010) of AFCEA on business and technical topics in the US Federal space.
- <2010
- Various management and leadership role related speeches and presentations. (1)
- 2006 – Tinker Take Off – received an award for custom Unit Compliance Checklist application as a lead/architect, built with Agile mindset.
The Training Numbers Game
Instructed as lead and/or as the second chair, with most courses as lead.
# of Lean-Agile student seats instructed – all-time:
greater than 2200 and counting…
# of SAFe® student seats instructed to date: 1602 private, 275 public, for 1877 total over 93 courses and ~1768 hours of instruction time.
The key metrics to date (10/20/2018):
Only 71% average of students attended attempted the exam (including courses within the 30-day window). 😦
87% average pass for all courses. Overall % exam pass rate on attempts in all SAFe® courses
I stopped tracking because the running average was about the same.
# of courses – Implementing SAFe 4.6, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0:
20
# courses – Lean Portfolio Management 5.0, 5.1:
3
# courses – Release Train Engineer 4.6, 5.1:
3
# courses – SAFe for Government 4.6, 5.0:
2
# courses – Leading SAFe® 4.0, 4.5, 4.6, 5.0, 5.1:
20
# courses – SAFe® for Teams 4.0, 4.5, 4.6, 5.0, 5.1:
23
# courses – SAFe® POPM 4.0, 4.5, 5.0:
9
# courses – SAFe® Scrum master 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, 5.1:
10
# courses – SAFe® Advanced Scrum master 4.5, 4.6:
3
# courses/workshops – Custom Lean-Agile, Coaching, Kanban & Scrum:
hundreds…