ENTERPRISE AGILITY

IS “SAFe” GOING TO SAVE US ALL? Yuri Lapin, Head of Ciklum Consulting

Zurich, June 24, 2014

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* SAFe forces the pace

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* Key facts

1. Scaled Agile, Inc. Wins 2014 Red

Herring North America Top 100 Award.

2. Scaled Agile Academy is performing

classes almost every week. Around

140 people get SPC certification every

month worldwide.

3. Global leaders are showing interest to

SAFe and/or reporting successful

implementation.

Below are some evidences for growing SAFe

awareness and adoption Worldwide, Europe

and Switzerland specifically:

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* <a href="javascript:void(0)">Enterprise

Agility</a>

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* Agile @ Scale Frameworks

1. Large-scale Scrum by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde

2. Disciplined Agile Delivery by Scott Ambler

3. “Kanban Method” by David Anderson

4. Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds by Henrik Kniberg

A number of frameworks have been developed to address challenges of Enterprise Agility

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* SAFe by Dean Leffingwell Denominators

1. Governance and alignment

2. Program execution

3. Architecture runway

The following are key denominators for SAFe successful adoption in Enterprise:

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* Governance and alignment Denominators

1. Content authority

2. Delivery authority

3. Alignment and synchronization

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* Program execution Denominators

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* Architecture runway Denominators

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* WILL SAFe BECOME AN INDUSTRY STANDARD?

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* SCRUM – lessons learned?

Illusion created by Scrum Alliance

1. a Scrum Master

2. regular Daily meetings

3. probably Product Owner

There is a perception that in order to do SCRUM you need

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* SAFe – new lesson?

Illusion created by Scaled Agile Academy

1. get SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)

2. educate ALL

3. execute Program

In order to become Agile at Enterprise all you need is

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* SAFe is a good tool!

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* If implementation is right

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* WILL SAFe BECOME AN INDUSTRY STANDARD?