Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe for Lean Enterprises
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Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe for Lean Enterprises
1w ago
There’s something about being in a room of like-minded people. It gets your innovative juices flowing. Your passion is ignited. You find yourself in a conversation that leads to a fruitful business relationship. Connecting and learning together can create new and exciting opportunities for you and your organization.
Dean always reminded us of the importance of building connections, sharing stories, and adapting SAFe together. What’s better for building community than the power of being in-person together?
Here are some of the highlights you can expect at the 2024 SAFe Summit Berlin:
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Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe for Lean Enterprises
1M ago
The Digital Age has disrupted many industries. Streaming services from Netflix and Spotify have replaced traditional media organizations, and e-commerce from Amazon continues to disrupt most retail organizations. These innovative companies used digital technologies to create rapid delivery and feedback loops that enabled them to dominate their respective markets—and created new ways of working that allowed them to achieve substantial business outcomes.
The digital age is now disrupting aerospace, defense, automotive, and other industries building large, complex cyber-physical systems. W ..read more
Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe for Lean Enterprises
1M ago
No matter where you turn today, everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Just a little more than a year ago, this was a topic reserved for science fiction enthusiasts and tech geeks. Now, whether you are checking your news feed or chatting with friends, AI will inevitably find its way into the conversation. Most of the credit for that shift goes to OpenAI and their decision to release ChatGPT to the world in November 2022. In the 14 months since, ChatGPT has gone from something few knew about to a topic of intense discussions, from the corporate conference table to the kitchen t ..read more
Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe for Lean Enterprises
3M ago
Let’s face it. We’re in the change business, and change is difficult. We transform organizations so that they can win in an age of unprecedented competition, and to transform is to bring about systemic change. We change organizational culture by changing mindsets, values, principles, and behaviors. The result is a new way of working—a new operating system—that enables business agility.
But is changing the way of working enough? Perhaps we also need to change the way of changing.
In his talk at SAFe Summit Prague, SAFe Fellow and SPCT Mark Richards stated, “If we want to innovate at the speed o ..read more
Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe for Lean Enterprises
4M ago
In a historically project-based organization, a Project/Program Management Office (PMO) is often chartered to track and coordinate the delivery of projects, initiatives, and programs an organization may have in flight at any time. A different set of values, mindset, and practices are required when implementing SAFe, which requires the move from temporal projects to long-lived products and from a start-stop approach to flow-based value delivery. The label of Value Management Office (VMO) has been applied to create focus on this change in approach, and the VMO enables this new way of working.&nb ..read more
Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe for Lean Enterprises
4M ago
In today’s fast-paced business world, it is more important than ever for organizations to quickly adapt to changing economic conditions, emerging technologies, and fleeting opportunities. This response often requires a coordinated effort across multiple portfolios and business units as the entire Enterprise aligns with the work to be done. With this in mind, we are delighted to announce an important update to the Enterprise article.
The new Enterprise article now describes Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM), a strategic approach to managing multiple SAFe portfolios and ..read more
Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe for Lean Enterprises
4M ago
We have updated the Portfolio guidance article!
A SAFe Portfolio is a set of Development Value Streams that deliver a continuous flow of valuable solutions to customers. Enterprises with well-formed portfolios utilizing Lean Portfolio Management practices reap multiple benefits, including optimization of people’s focus, enhanced strategic alignment, value-aligned decision-making, and transparency in delivery.
Additionally, the portfolio facilitates the decentralization of decision-making by providing essential funding, strategic intent, and the minimum necessary governance. It ensur ..read more
Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe for Lean Enterprises
5M ago
We are excited to tell you about the new Strategic Themes article released today! For such a seemingly simple artifact, strategic themes play an absolutely critical role in SAFe. They help align strategy to execution and help ensure the portfolio’s value streams achieve the enterprise objectives.
Strategic Themes are a set of short, pithy statements that summarize critical elements of enterprise strategy that are relevant to a specific SAFe portfolio. As such, they can be difficult to define and document. But organizations that create well-formed strategic themes gain a significant competitive ..read more
Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe for Lean Enterprises
5M ago
“Never test the depth of the river with both feet.” This saying reminds us of the power of approaching uncertainty through smaller steps of progress, discovery, and adjustments. This idea is integral to SAFe and can be a key tactic to seize opportunities for innovation and growth while decreasing investment risks.
Advancing Business Agility requires engagement from all business segments, including HR, Finance, Marketing, etc. Emerging capabilities are needed in finance to enable financing Value Streams and pivot or preserve decisions while developing large initiatives that require a strong ROI ..read more
Scaled Agile Framework – SAFe for Lean Enterprises
6M ago
“Never test the depth of the river with both feet.” This saying reminds us of the power of approaching uncertainty through smaller steps of progress, discovery, and adjustments. This idea is integral to SAFe and can be a key tactic to seize opportunities for innovation and growth while decreasing investment risks.
Advancing Business Agility requires engagement from all business segments, including HR, Finance, Marketing, etc. Emerging capabilities are needed in finance to enable financing Value Streams and pivot or preserve decisions while developing large initiatives that require a strong ROI ..read more