Innovate EDU has experienced SAFe transformation specialists who can assist you in understanding the objectives of SAFe and guide you in putting together a case for change. We help you implement SAFe so you can achieve outstanding productivity and employee engagement benefits for your organisation.
What is SAFe?
SAFe stands for Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises.
The SAFe core belief is simple: Better software and systems make the world a better place. Many enterprises—large and small—are getting outstanding business benefits from applying SAFe.
These typically include:
- 20 – 50% increase in productivity
- 25 – 75% improvements in quality
- 30 – 75% faster time-to-market
- 10 – 50% increase in employee engagement and job satisfaction
Achieving the business benefits of Lean-Agile development at scale is not a trivial effort, so SAFe is not a trivial framework. Before realising SAFe’s rewards, organisations must embrace a Lean-Agile Mindset as well as understand and apply Lean-Agile principles. They must identify Value Streams and Agile Release Trains (ARTs), implement a Lean-Agile portfolio, build quality in, and establish the mechanisms for continuous value delivery and DevOps. And, of course, the culture must evolve as well. Based on proven organizational change management strategies, the SAFe Implementation Roadmap graphic below describes the steps, or ‘critical moves,’ an enterprise can take to implement SAFe in an orderly, reliable, and successful fashion.
While no two adoptions are identical, and there is rarely a perfectly sequential step-by-step implementation in any enterprise, we know that businesses getting the best results typically follow a path similar to that shown in the Implementation Roadmap.
It includes the following 12 steps:
- Reaching the Tipping Point
- Train Lean-Agile Change Agents
- Train Executives, Managers, and Leaders
- Create a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence
- Identify Value Streams and ARTs
- Create the Implementation Plan
- Prepare for ART Launch
- Train Teams and Launch the ART
- Coach ART Execution
- Launch More ARTs and Value Streams
- Extend to the Portfolio Sustain and Improve
- Sustain and Improve