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We can help improve your digital business agility-at-scale based on “where it hurts” — with the right combination of training, advisory, and tool implementation services.
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We take an agility-first approach to improve context & collaboration among product designers and developers, working within existing enterprise Risk & IT “constraints”. This is typically a path selected by small line-of-business teams that are trying to “do something now”, gain some credibility, and increase engagement with enterprise Risk & IT. The goal is to improve context during solution design among business/IT/Risk folks, for better collaboration — resulting in fewer blockers, higher quality/risk/security compliance, and better control of technical debt. For this to happen, there needs to be measured improvements across EA/BPM and Scaled Agile (e.g., SAFe framework training & implementation). It can be a big task trying to make these improvements at the same time, so our approach is to deliver incremental improvements over time, that can demonstrate real business value.
Start enabling your teams to inject business & technology modeling to better support agility-at-scale.
Integrate program development tools with EA / BPM tools (e.g., JIRA + ARIS). Requires baseline #NoHeavyDocs starter pack.
Leverage EA/BPM Solution Intent Repository information to speed up and [...]
A broad overview of SAFe at all levels, covering strategy/portfolio, large solutions (multiple agile trains), and team iterations (2 days).
For architects at all levels (enterprise, solution, system) designing solutions and/or enterprise portfolio mgmt (all domains — business/IT) (3 days).
The “team level” training needed to deliver value 2-week iterations (e.g., typical Scrum/XP practices), but in context of scaling an Agile Release Train of up to 125 people (2 days).
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EA/BPM COE
During my time as a Branch Chief in U.S. Navy Financial Policy and Systems, Mike led the strategy and implementation of a holistic Enterprise Architecture solution. The objective was to help improve audit transparency, and Mike did this by leading a team to design and implement a custom automated EA solution (using Software AG ARIS) needed to identify risks related to applications and processes, training and mentoring experienced folks in business, application, and data architecture — from strategy to architecture to modeling.Chad Bepple, Assistant Director for Enterprise Operations, Demand Management and Project Governance, IRS
SAFe Transformation
Mike and I worked together at KPMG with a goal of helping to improve a Salesforce transformation program, with a focus on improving agility through agile thinking using SAFe as the main framework. Mike led efforts to design and deliver an outcome-driven “Lean-Agile Center of Excellence”, with early efforts focused on delivering training to hundreds of people, including follow-up Agile Release Train (ART) launch advisory to various stakeholders. The thing that stood out most about Mike’s advisory was his ability to connect “classroom theory” with “real life” through examples and facilitation exercises. He has applied the same realistic mix of “agility” and “architecture”… two things that are rarely seen together and I especially like his latest whitepaper on the subject, “Cut the Digital Transformation Chaos with Modern Architecture: Scale Up and Shift Left!” Mike is someone I would trust to deliver results and can influence organizational change.
Lauresa Escribano, Executive Partner, IBM
EA Gov / App Portfolio Mgt
Michael helped us with Enterprise Architecture governance and application portfolio analysis. As part of a federated Boeing architecture framework, tool and governance improvement effort, he worked to “connect the dots” between various Boeing organizations and improve EA value — delivering framework implementation, training, and application of standards in the field.
Ahmad Yaghoobi, Senior Technical Fellow – Digital Enterprise Analytics,
Boeing
EA/BPM COE
Michael was pivotal in helping us establish an Enterprise Architecture standard at Outerwall Inc. He is very good at driving the value proposition of Enterprise Architecture within an organization, then customizing a repeatable and sustainable approach. While it is up to an organization to implement and manage an EA practice, Michael gives the organization all the tools necessary to be successful. I highly recommend Michael and would bring Michael into any organization looking to establish, or transform, an Enterprise Architecture strategy.
Gregory James, Chief of Staff, Office of the CTO
EA/BPM Advisory
I have worked with / managed Mike for 10 years at Software AG and KPMG, where he was instrumental in building an EA practice, and delivering EA projects to clients. His professional focus is in Enterprise Architecture during the whole time that we worked together, and Scaled Agile in addition to this. Mike is smart and very technological savvy. He sees through the complexity of a project and “connects the dots” to find the best way to deliver a successful project result. This allowed me to apply a “fire and forget” management approach for him – whenever I put him on a critical project, I could be sure that he found the best way to deliver a successful result that made the client happy. Besides this outcome-driven characteristics, he keeps his humor and good attitude even in harsh times. it is a pleasure to spend time with him – either on a project or in off-hours.
Roland Woldt, Business Transformation Architect,
Software AG / WhatsYourBaseline
Cloud Modernization & Offshore COE
I have worked for Mike over several years on various EA-related projects, especially helping to modernize organizations’ application and cloud technology portfolios. We have worked on large projects together, such as an Architecture & Engineering (A&E) department re-organization for a fortune 100 IT organization, and — most recently — a state transportation agency’s application/cloud modernization roadmap journey. Mike has been a mentor and teacher to us at KPMG Global Services, most recently delivering a “SAFe for Architects” class. He even traveled to India twice over the years to train us in the latest EA methodology and tools, to help build out our team to deliver on client outcomes. I hope to work with Mike again in the future.
Ankur Paliwal, Manager,
KPMG India
Read example case studies
Process and policy harmonization enable architecture governance, improving ITSM and Information Security.
Aging infrastructure and mounting technical debt from legacy applications were impacting service reliability, maintenance costs, and agility.
Merger situation required overlapping system capabilities and consolidation of applications, with focus on operations and security
Enterprise Architecture & Engineering (EA&E) has to be a partner with business units, who want to be agile (“shadow IT”) but still require enterprise technology services.
International Audit Firm (55+ countries) needed to simultaneously deliver Internal Audit services at lower cost and improving service by modernizing the technology platform.
Many systems duplicated between commands resulted in high cost and complex audit traceability, requiring visibility of trillions of dollars flowing through systems.
US Navy needed a business architecture system and COE to centralize high-quality information, for better audit visiblity.
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About LSA
Hi, I’m Mike Idengren. I lead Lean Scaled Architects to help organizations truly be able to combine EA, BPM and agility to scale and show results — not just with tools and practices, but building the right mix of teams to help sustain the benefits in the long term. I work with partners from Software AG, Scaled Agile, and other trusted associates to help deliver EA/BPM and agile projects and training.