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| − | + | #'''Lean-Agile Leadership''' | |
| − | + | #:Enabling individuals and teams to leverage their highest potential by advancing and applying Lean-Agile leadership skills which advance and sustain organizational change. | |
| − | + | #'''Team and Technical Agility''' | |
| − | Enabling individuals and teams to leverage their highest potential by advancing and applying Lean-Agile leadership skills which advance and sustain organizational change. | + | #:Empowering agile behavior within teams including technical practices such as Built-in Quality, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Agile testing, Test-Driven Development (TDD). |
| − | + | #'''Agile Product Delivery''' | |
| − | + | #:“Building high-performing teams-of-teams” with the help of design thinking, customer-centricity allowing a continuous flow of valuable products by applying methods such as DevOps, the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, and Release on Demand. | |
| − | + | #'''Enterprise Solution Delivery''' | |
| − | Empowering agile behavior within teams including technical practices such as Built-in Quality, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Agile testing, Test-Driven Development (TDD). | + | #:Developing and sustaining large-scale software applications, networks, and cyber-physical solutions. |
| − | + | #'''Lean Portfolio Management''' | |
| − | + | #:Spearheading lean portfolio management tasks such as the definition of vision and strategy, lean budgets as well as portfolio prioritization and road mapping. | |
| − | + | #'''Organizational Agility''' | |
| − | “Building high-performing teams-of-teams” with the help of design thinking, customer-centricity allowing a continuous flow of valuable products by applying methods such as DevOps, the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, and Release on Demand. | + | #:Applying lean and systems thinking methodologies to align strategy and execution for strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance. |
| − | + | #'''Continuous Learning Culture''' | |
| − | + | #:Create and sustain a learning organization aimed at continuous improvement and innovation. | |
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== SAFe Lean-Agile Principles == | == SAFe Lean-Agile Principles == | ||
Revision as of 18:43, 13 February 2022
Developed by Simon Widmer
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a framework that helps corporations to adopt the principles of lean and agile project management into a comprehensive operating system allowing large-scale program management for corporations of any size. SAFe combines the power of four bodies of knowledge: Agile development, systems thinking, lean product development, and DevOps. This allows corporations to benefit from cutting down the delivery time of innovative, high-value products and services while increasing predictability and quality. Overall, the most common benefits for corporations implementing SAFe can be quantified as [1]:
- 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
SAFe follows a set of seven competencies for lean enterprise practices as well as 10 lean-agile principles. Further, the SAFe framework consists of four configurations and is scalable depending on a corporation’s needs, and promotes alignment, collaboration, and delivery across teams of any size working in an agile environment.
SAFe is freely available and developed by Scaled Agile, Inc. The framework was first released in 2011 and since then continuously developed. The current version 5.1 was released in February 2021. Although recognized as the most commonly implemented framework for scaled agile methods in corporations, the SAFe framework shows several limitations which are further outlined in section XX.
This topic has been touched by previous articles such as SAFe and (Re)Introducing Project Management in a SAFe world. This article offers a more generic overview of SAFe while emphasizing limitations faced by corporations working with the Scaled Agile Framework.
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Core Competencies of SAFe
The latest Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 5) consists of seven key competencies that are crucial in creating and maintaining a competitive advantage for any corporation [1]:
- Lean-Agile Leadership
- Enabling individuals and teams to leverage their highest potential by advancing and applying Lean-Agile leadership skills which advance and sustain organizational change.
- Team and Technical Agility
- Empowering agile behavior within teams including technical practices such as Built-in Quality, Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Agile testing, Test-Driven Development (TDD).
- Agile Product Delivery
- “Building high-performing teams-of-teams” with the help of design thinking, customer-centricity allowing a continuous flow of valuable products by applying methods such as DevOps, the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, and Release on Demand.
- Enterprise Solution Delivery
- Developing and sustaining large-scale software applications, networks, and cyber-physical solutions.
- Lean Portfolio Management
- Spearheading lean portfolio management tasks such as the definition of vision and strategy, lean budgets as well as portfolio prioritization and road mapping.
- Organizational Agility
- Applying lean and systems thinking methodologies to align strategy and execution for strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance.
- Continuous Learning Culture
- Create and sustain a learning organization aimed at continuous improvement and innovation.
SAFe Lean-Agile Principles
Describe 10 SAFe principles
SAFe Configurations
Describe the 4 available SAFe configurations
Implementation Roadmap
Describe the 10 steps of the implementation roadmap
Limitations
Critically discuss 3-5 examples on limitations of SAFe
Bibliography
References
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Welcome to Scaled Agile Framework, Scaled Agile, Inc., February 2021, https://www.scaledagileframework.com/about/
