Some Suggestion on Overcoming SAFe implementation challenges

1. Overcome
SAFe® Implementation
Challenges

2. • SAFe Program Consultant with
Transformation experience
• Trained over 1200 on SAFe
• Student of Lean, Agile and
DevOps
• Voracious reader - A book/week Ashwinee Kalkura
@ashwineekalkura
Principal Consultant

4. Conway’s Law is the Limit
constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures
• Clarity from the Portfolio
• Competence at
Team/Program

5. It’s not just IT
Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, Customers
• Involve Business
• Market “connect” is the
NEED

8. Alignment issues
• Common Mission
• Empower to make
decisions
• Minimum Constraints

9. Defects in the System
• Right Metrics and
Measurements
• Dashboards available
Transparently

12. Thinking like a Customer
Who is my Customer?
• Problem Statement
• Description of the
Customer

13. MISSING VALUE STREAM
Concept to Cash
• From: We “Sell” Items
• To: We “Create”
experience

15. Magic happens
“outside” of your
comfort zone