Deema Dajani

Certified SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) at Scaled Agile
Deema is an SPCT Advisor at Scaled Agile.  Drawing on her successful Startup background and an MBA from Kellogg Northwestern University, Deema helps large established institutions create the environment to shape disruption with business agility transformation. She started her journey with Agile in the early 2000’s, embraced agility as a way of being while she held roles in Product Management, go to market Strategy, to pre-IPO turn around leader.  Agile was the common thread in these adventures.  Deema transitioned to a transformation consulting journey, where she led some of the largest transformations to business agility and lean agile portfolios in the Financial Services and Insurance space.  Deema is passionate about organizing agile communities for good, she co-founded the Women in Agile organization non profit. 


Interactive Exercise: Dynamic Budgeting in Lean Agile Portfolios


Join me for an interactive activity, to experience Participatory Budgeting technique.  Most organizations will generate more good ideas than it can fund, resulting in a portfolio prioritization challenge. Participatory Budgeting is a technique for solving this challenge while ensuring that value streams receive the necessary funding. This enables the Lean Portfolio decision makers and fiduciaries to collaborate with Business Owners and other stakeholders to right-size the investments in value streams and helps manage the approval process of epics in the portfolio Kanban. Facilitated by Scaled Agile’s Deema Dajani, the high energy exercise will help you experience Participatory budgeting and its application in rolling wave lean budgeting.