Such a change also requires a practical and proven guide that brings the change into sequential action supported by a robust guiding coalition. The transformation of an organization towards full business agility requires the change leadership acumen to create persistent people practices and the mindset needed to support the change. And, of course, the culture must evolve as well. They must identify their Portfolio(s), Value Streams, and Agile Release Trains (ARTs), implement their Lean-Agile Portfolio(s), build quality in, and establish the mechanisms for continuous flow of value delivery and DevOps. Before realizing SAFe’s rewards, organizations must embrace a Lean-Agile Mindset and understand and apply Lean-Agile principles. The SAFe Implementation Roadmap consists of an overview graphic and a 14-article series that describes a strategy and an ordered set of activities for successfully implementing SAFe.Īchieving business agility and the benefits of Lean-Agile development at scale is not a trivial effort, so SAFe is not a trivial Framework.
