Overcome SAFe® Implementation Challenges discusses common challenges organizations face when implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and provides recommendations to address them. It suggests that Conway's Law, where organizational structures limit design, can be overcome by providing clarity from portfolio planning and competence in Agile teams and programs. It also stresses the importance of involving all parts of the business in the transformation, including marketing, sales, supply chain and customers, and establishing a common mission, empowering decisions makers, and removing constraints. Other tips include using the right metrics and transparent dashboards, thinking like customers by understanding problems and experiences, and shifting from just selling items to creating customer experiences.

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