In this new article, Mikael reflects on his experiences observing people managers as they adapted to the changes in their role as their organizations transitioned to SAFe. The new responsibility wheel for people managers reflects how Mikael has guided these leaders to see their value as they perform the vital role of finding, developing, and unleashing the amazing talent Agile Teams and ARTs need to build the innovative products needed to compete and win in the marketplace.
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Fellow Blog | Crafting Clarity: Using Feature Templates to Shape and Communicate Intent
•By Rebecca Davis
In this SAFe Fellow blog, Mark shares how to create features that not only capture attention but spur action. He gifts us with a feature template he has refined over the years with customers. From feature naming and problem statements to hypotheses and prioritization, this canvas brings together impactful feature design. Embrace this chance to propel your product teams toward unprecedented success with a method that bridges creativity, clarity, and strategic alignment.
New Community Contribution Article on Enterprise Strategy Rooms
In SAFe, we describe Enterprise Portfolio Management as a group of people and a set of practices that ensures alignment between a related set of portfolios and the overall enterprise vision and strategy. An effective EPM team enables the highest priority work to have a clear path from strategy and investment planning to execution. This decentralized decision-making enables portfolios to respond to quickly changing customer needs and market environments.
SAFe Fellow Retreat Reflections
•By Joe Vallone
The recent SAFe Fellows Retreat held virtually on June 11, 2024, was an invaluable experience that left the participants with profound reflections on their journey, the Framework’s evolution, and the Fellow’s future engagements. This retreat reinforced the SAFe Fellows community’s importance and showcased the tremendous value they collectively bring to the Lean-Agile landscape. What is a SAFe Fellow? A SAFe Fellow is Scaled Agile’s most prestigious recognition awarded to individuals who have contributed to the highest level of mastery and
Now Available! SAFe Essential Articles in Japanese
•By Risa Wilmeth
We are thrilled to announce that all the SAFe Essential articles have been translated into Japanese as part of our ongoing commitment to support global communities. We have set up a microsite where you can access the translated content. This is a significant milestone in our efforts to reach a global audience, and we are extremely excited to share this with the community. We want to extend our heartfelt thanks to the Globalization team and their ICR team in Japan
Organizing Teams on the ART with the Team Formation Workshop
In SAFe, we discuss the importance of organizing around value and provide guidance on identifying value streams that span the organization’s functional domains. In fact, running the Value Stream and ART Identification Workshop is a critical first step to ensuring ARTs can build the products their customers desire with minimal dependencies. And that future members of the ART will have all the skills and authority necessary to deliver valuable products continuously. But what’s next? How do we organize an ART
Brand New Article: Responsible AI
At the 2024 Berlin SAFe Summit in April, we released a completely revised version of the Artificial Intelligence in SAFe (AI) article. This new article introduced the three critical dimensions of an AI competency for SAFe Enterprises: Today, we are excited to announce the release of a new Responsible AI article that provides even deeper guidance on using and building AI to maximize its benefits while minimizing its unique risks. The article provides expanded definitions of the three aspects and
Announcing the new Japanese Big Picture
•By Harry Koehnemann
Global markets represent some of our largest growth in adopting SAFe. To support this growth, we are looking at ways to support international adoption by providing translated versions of SAFe resources. SAFe adoption is rapidly growing in Japan. Perhaps it is because the Japanese team is one of our most fun teams at Scaled Agile, as shown by this picture of Tatsuro Koba-san and Hiroaki Nakaya-san from one of our PI Planning events below. Because of their efforts and rapid
SAFe Fellow Blog | On the Nature of Portfolios – Portfolio Kanban Normal Scenarios
•By Rebecca Davis
By Brian Tucker, SAFe Fellow, Ivar Jacobson, Original Post Our SAFe Fellow community is fantastic at bringing concepts together with examples. This blog by SAFe Fellow Brian Tucker is an exemplar of explaining a topic that can take a few rounds to understand and making it into something not only understandable but also fun to learn about. Brian was one of the first trainers outside of the Scaled Agile Academy to qualify as a SAFe Principal Consultant Trainer (SPCT), having worked
Why “program” is still used in one place in SAFe 6.0
•By Steve Mayner
At Scaled Agile, we often hear from our SAFe community, “Why is ‘program’ still in the fishbone diagram for the problem-solving workshop? I thought that term was removed in SAFe 6.0?” The workshop they are referring to is an activity that is part of the Inspect and Adapt event ARTs conduct at the end of each PI. It’s easy to see why people ask this question. One of the notable changes in SAFe 6.0 was to retire the use of