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Engaging the Business of the Business in SAFe
Hello all, In various forums, I’m occasionally asked, “how can we do SAFe effectively if we don’t have the right level of engagement from our Business Owners?” Of course, the answer is you can’t. While you can improve development performance and solutions to a point, if the business isn’t engaged in development in a manner unlike the past, we are unlikely to build the right solutions. We cannot achieve real Business Agility. That’s why we.
SAFe KPI Article Tune Up
Hello All, In the most recent SAFe 5 update, we introduced operational value streams as first-class citizens of the SAFe Big Picture. Of course, they were always there, but as we evolve our approach to Business Agility, we also need to better identify our customers. This is especially important when the development value streams build systems that primarily support others within the company. In these cases, our customers are internal, and the systems we build.
What’s new in SAFe 5? SAFe for Hardware Development!
Hi all. Many of us work in organizations that are trying to improve product delivery where the solutions include hardware. While SAFe offers software developers a myriad of practices to accelerate execution, we have had little to say to hardware developers. Until now. Today, the hardware community is in the same position as the software community was two decades ago when they experienced increasing business demand for faster and high-quality delivery. The software community invented.

On SAFe 5 Updates, Meerkats, and Operational and Development Value Streams
…arrived one day later (how does Amazon do that?). I read it immediately. Through the story of protagonists Matt, Nadia, Ayo, and a host of threatened Kalahari Meerkat colonies, the authors explore the ‘dual operating system’ in metaphor…

What’s new in SAFe 5? How about Operational Value Streams as first-class citizens?
…illustrated in the figure below, where we are highlighting some standard types of OVS patterns that we have observed in the field. This helps the dev community organize their Development Value Streams around value as the operational value…

Announcing a New Release of SAFe 5!
The digital world is changing at an ever-increasing pace and Scaled Agile is committed to the evolution of SAFe to help organizations achieve business agility. Relentless improvement is central to this mission: it helps us improve the Framework based on experiences from our customers and partners. To this end, on behalf of the entire Scaled Agile team, we are delighted to announce an update to SAFe 5, including an enhanced 5.1 Big Picture. Key Highlights.

New Big Picture Glossary and Translation Features
Hi folks. I wanted to inform everyone that we have just released new Big Picture Glossary functionality with integrated translations. While the Glossary terms themselves have not changed, we now have better translations created by native language translators with SAFe experience. All new translations are on the site except German, which should be up in a few months. We also changed the way we manage glossary items and their translations. Formerly, users would download a.

New SAFe® 5.0 Introduction White Paper
Hello folks, We’re pleased to announce the release of the SAFe 5.0 Introduction white paper. You can download it here. This white paper provides an overview of SAFe 5.0, the Big Picture graphic, the seven core competencies, and the values, mindset, principles, and practices that guide teams to more effectively build solutions in a far leaner—and more Agile—fashion. You can use the new white paper in a couple of different ways: As an initial level of.

SAFe® for Architects is now live!
After a very successful first teach in early March in Boulder, Colorado, we’re thrilled to announce that our latest course—SAFe® for Architects with SAFe® 4 Architect certification—is now live! Dealing with constantly shifting markets and digital disruption means quickly innovating to get high-quality solutions into customers’ hands faster and more predictably. To do that, architects have to be on board, or the business can’t execute on its vision and objectives. Architects are critical to successfully.

Want to ensure a successful SAFe journey? Get your architects on board.
Global markets and customer needs shift in the blink of an eye. Digital disruptors are invading your market. To survive, your organization must quickly innovate to get high-quality solutions into customers’ hands faster and more predictably. Maybe you’re headed toward those goals by adopting SAFe®, and maybe you have buy-in from leadership to embark on a SAFe journey. But if your architects aren’t on board, the business can’t execute on its vision and objectives. Architects.
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