Why SAFe?

You must be able to work as a team to succeed

Talent does not equal success!

Could a group of really talented musicians become a marching band without a strong leader and lessons on how to work (and walk) in synchronization? No - they could not. Large Agile teams cannot produce one product without a strong leader and lessons about how to work in synchronization. Training becomes the difference between success and failure.

Scaled Agile starts with an Implementation Roadmap for organizations just starting out. The end result is a set of processes that are unique to your organization supported by the SAFe framework. The SAFe material will assist with implementing a Continuous Delivery Pipeline which outlines how to continuously explore, integrate, deploy, and ultimately Release on Demand.

What is your biggest obstacle?

Co-location slowing us down

Inconsistent Delivery, Low Customer Value

Team grew too fast, now inefficient

"We have team members across eight cities and four time zones. We need more than Agile & Scrum to get everyone coordinated."

Solution

Team grew too fast, now inefficient

Inconsistent Delivery, Low Customer Value

Team grew too fast, now inefficient

"We need to make sure everyone on our team is using the same process. We are a new team that has grown very fast. There is so much to do, I can only spare my team for a few days at a time."

- IT Director, new product division

Solution

Inconsistent Delivery, Low Customer Value

"Leadership & Management has worked together before and knows SAFe. We want the team to work understand SAFe team practices so they can work more efficiently. We need to deliver better quality more often"

- PMO Director

Solution

Only Maintenance, No innovation

Inconsistent Delivery, Low Customer Value

"Our tech debt and defect log is consuming so much of our time that we can't even focus on new development"

-Dev Manager

Solution

Longtime Waterfall culture

Only Maintenance, No innovation

Longtime Waterfall culture

"Leadership is asking us to tighten up our SAFe practices - starting at the top."

-Release Train Engineer

Solution

Scope Creep

Only Maintenance, No innovation

Longtime Waterfall culture

"When the business loves the demos and keeps asking for more. They are very reactionary. They don't understand that what they consider a "modification" could be "do over" work for the design, dev, QA & UX teams. We need to be able to work together as a team and plan better so there isn't so much rework. "

-Director of PMO

Solution