We talk about “Respect for People” in SAFe. What does it mean to have respect for people when implementing SAFe in the enterprise? The Invitations/Pull-based approach acknowledges our humaneness and tweaks the SAFe Implementation Roadmap in a way that involves leaders and teams in figuring out when/how to implement SAFe in their context – empowering and decentralizing as many implementation decisions as it makes sense. In this session we will explore why this approach is needed and how to use it – introducing the SAFe invitations guidance article as well as examples from the trenches in organizations such as Siemens and Amdocs.

1. Invitations-Based SAFe
Implementations
Scaling Agile using Pull/Invite rather
than Push/Mandate

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Yuval Yeret

4. Let me tell you a story about Lucy…
scaledagileframework.com/launch-more-arts-and-value-streams/

6. Here’s our Lucy Again…

7. Wait – Who are REALLY
Lucy and Ethel in our story?

9. #YMMV**Your Mileage May Vary

10. COME SOON

12. What’s green outside red inside?

13. The SAFe Theater
Starring the Managers-Only PI Planning,
The Command & Control RTE,
w/ special guest - The Waterfall Thinking
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14. But What if …

15. Freedom on the Freedom Trail

16. Sometimes a walk with an expert IS better …

18. Pull-based Implementation Flow
Improve/
Boost
Backlog
I
DecideProspects Stable/
Recharging
F
B
Leading
SAFe
Mgmt
Workshop
Kickoff/
Quick
Start
Stabilize
–
I&A
L
N
“Pull from management & executives”
E
D
Market/Sell more depth
Q
R
Market/Sell the change to LOBs
G

19. Let Leaders Pull Training
• Run Leading-SAFe /
Foundations every X weeks
• Market internally using
“Launch” techniques (Scarcity,
Deadline, etc.)
• Let people opt-in
• Will identify champions and
potentially interested value
streams/ARTs

20. Use a “SAFe Implementation Workshop”
for a specific VS/ART
bit.ly/ImplSAFe
+

21. Open the space “SAFe @ our company/org –
What does it mean? Why? How?”
wambeke.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/openspace.gif
8:00-
9:00
9:00-
10:30
1:00-
4:00
10:30-
11:30
4:00-
5:00
11:30-
1:00

22. Open the space in the SAFe QuickStart
• Leave some of the HOW decisions open
for discussion
• Confidence Vote around “Are we good to
go with SAFe here?” and mini-open-
space using that as the theme.

23. Follow a Confidence Vote with a mini-open-space

24. Use guerilla marketing to grow – leveraging
the beach head
Improve/
Boost
Backlog
I
DecideProspects Stable/
Recharging
Leading/
Implementing
SAFe
Mgmt
Workshop
Kickoff/
Quick
Start
Stabilize
–
I&A
L
N
Q
R
Invite prospects to
QuickStart or PI
Planning
Share success, publicly visualize,
invite prospects to PI System Demo

25. Tipping
Point
Gold
Rush
The
Chocolate
Factory
Snow
flakes
Too Soon
Push all
you want
Let's use
our SAFe
Principles
It's a
market
Freedom
on the
Freedom
Trail
Flow
Implement
ation
Workshop
Open the
space

26. Yuval@AgileSparks.com
T: 857-218-9585
linkedin.com/in/yuvalyeret/
@YuvalYeret
ØRead the guidance article –
scaledagileframework.com/
invitation-based-safe-implementation/

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