Achieving Measurable Business Results with SAFe - Scaled Agile Framework

Achieving Measurable Business Results with SAFe Our research shows that implementing SAFe can deliver significant, measurable business value. –Gartner, 10 Essential Practices for Success When Implementing SAFe Note: This article is part of Extended SAFe Guidance and represents official SAFe content that cannot be accessed directly from the Big Picture. Introduction Everything moves fast in the digital age. Customer desires, competitive threats, technology choices, business expectations, revenue opportunities, and workforce demands now change at lightning speed. Success in this landscape requires a customer-centric approach that allows enterprises to sense and respond quickly to market opportunities and threats. Those who master large-scale software delivery will have the advantage [1], which often requires systemic cultural change and strong partnerships between business and technology leaders.  Implementing organizational change of this magnitude is a big deal and a significant investment, and achieving business agility is not a trivial effort. Therefore, time must be devoted to defining a transformation strategy that aligns business and technology leaders with clear objectives and an incremental implementation plan.   This article describes a three-step process for defining desired SAFe outcomes that enable significant, measurable business results to support this goal. These steps should be completed in a workshop format with business and technology stakeholders present. Step 1: Establishing the business context expresses the need to align the transformation directly with the business strategy driving the need for change.