By the numbers

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:

2024

Past:

  • 2023
    • SAFe Summit Nashville – Connecting Strategy to Execution at NASA
  • 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 2300 and counting…

# of SAFe® student seats instructed to date: 1641 private, 301 public, for 1933 total over 99 courses and ~1866 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:
23

# courses – Lean Portfolio Management 5.0, 5.1, 6.0:
5

# 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:
11

# 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…