Agile Enablement
This BG surprisingly put a large focus on people in 2025; specifically... increasing maturity, servicing the organization, roles/responsibilities, and skills assessments.
Who is Enterprise Architecture?
This report helps evaluate the quality and data of OKR’s to ensure alignment, clarity, measurability, and impact.
What is the OKR Audit report?
Agile Coaches need to integrate this technology into our strategy, tools, and approach in 2026 to help everyone "go faster" and "work smarter"
What is Artificial Intelligence?
This Digital Leader's vision includes receiving a request in the morning and delivering a solution later that afternoon
Who is Laura Money?
This team event had to be deferred due to Jack Frost, much to the chagrin of our fearless leader
What is the Bowling Bash and Snack Extravaganza?
This program launched in Q2 2025 and provided Product Owners and Managers in the US with the opportunity to "upskill" product ownership capabilities through curated content resulting in enhanced performance and value delivery in their roles
What is the US PO Upskilling Program?
In 2025, Asia hit a milestone by onboarding 100 teams into this enterprise tool, replacing multiple PowerPoints and reports for VRR, VRO, and AIOC.
What is Planview?
This metric is used to measure speed of delivery on the DBTS scorecard?
What is cycle time?
This acronym represents the behavious that agile coaches tried to instill into everyone we worked with in 2025
What is BOLDER?
These are the initials of this Global Agile Coaching leader who took the helm in mid 2025. Hint, her initials match those of her predecessor.
What is P. S.?
This e-learning module introduced Asia teams to the responsibilities of Scrum Masters and Release Train Engineers, providing foundational knowledge before advanced SAFe training.
What is the Exploring the Scrum Master and Release Train Engineer Roles e-learning module?
This BU’s Platforms adopted the Planview tool (30+ boards) in early 2025. Planview Pulse quoted their accomplishment as “Bullseye! they hit their target for Planview Adoption!”
What is EDAE?
The name of this program aims to accelerate delivery by cutting cycle time in half, with recommendations consolidated into a prioritization matrix.
What is the Acceleration Program?
This BG achieved a combined 2025 GMM Maturity target of 78% across 4 Business Units and 37 teams. It's SVP leader has the same last name as a famous British comedian and actor.
What is DTS?
These 2 global coaches got to enjoy some "all expenses paid" time in BC after helping our team win a 2025 CEO Award
Who are Tommy To and Danielle Whelan?
This program launched in Q4 2025 to upskill Value Stream Owners and Platform Owners in Asia, covering such topics as OKRs, block funding, and scaled agile events.
What is the Asia VSO & PLO Upskilling Program?
This video was created to demystify Sun Life’s digital leadership strategy, achieving 95% completion across 4,956 registrations and driving adoption in Asia with over 4,800 completions.
What is the Digital Leadership Foundations Video?
These 3 DTS practices are collaborating together to identify acceleration opportunities as part of the acceleration program
Who are QE, Dev Ops, and Global Coaches
Global coaches eyebrows were "raised" when both the US and SRC self reported an 81% maturity score in this GMM maturity category for the Q3 2025 GMM assessment
What is Agile at scale?
Unlike most people in the organization, if you want to connect with this agile coach using e-mail or MS Teams you need to use both Alpha and Numeric characters.
Who is Tommy.to2
This Platform and its two teams were mobilized in Q2 -Q3 2025 to support its vision of ‘Elevating organizational decision making through strategic data management and deliver reliable, accessible and high-quality master data, metadata and data quality solutions
What is the Data Management Platform (DMP)?
This BU was onboarded to our Planview tool in 2024 and continues to be the pioneer group within the US space that is driving Planview utilization.
What is FullScope?
These 3 sunlife BGs got the best traction with the Global acceleration program in 2025
Who are Corporate, Asia, and the USA
This leader was recognized by the 2025 Global Leadership Institute for leading technology teams at Sunlife because she has "built trust and kept teams focused on innovation while staying human-centered". She is currently practicing her craft and leading the IT department south of the Canadian border.
Who is Maya Beri?
The first name of this agile coach means "the one who abstains" in one popular religion and is also the name of a town where miracles were reported to have happened in a different popular religion.
What or who is Fatima?