Introducing the

Scaled Agile Framework 6.0 ®

Work Differently. Build the Future.

 Good companies fail
through disruption

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 “Those who master
large-scale software
delivery will define
the economic
landscape of the
21st century.”
—Dr. Mik Kersten
Project to Product
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 “To thrive in the digital age you
need business agility.

This new way of working requires a

new mindset, values, principles,
and practices.”

—Dean Leffingwell, Creator of SAFe

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 SAFe Lean-Agile Mindset

Lean Thinking Agile Values

Lead Time Customer
Trigger
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
REPEAT Solution
(value)

Principles Through this work we have come to value:

1 Precisely specify value by product

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

2 Identify the Value Stream for each product

Working software over comprehensive documentation
3 Make value flow without interruptions
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
4 Let the Customer pull value from the producer
Responding to change over following a plan
5 Pursue perfection
That is, while there is value in the items on the right,
we value the items on the left more.
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 SAFe Core Values

Alignment Transparency

Respect for People Relentless Improvement

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 SAFe Principles
#1 Take an economic view

#2 Apply systems thinking

#3 Assume variability; preserve options

#4 Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles

#5 Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems

#6 Make value flow without interruptions

#7 Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning

#8 Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers

#9 Decentralize decision-making

#10 Organize around value

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New practices
form new ways
of working

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 People power SAFe

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Nothing beats Agile teams …

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 … that plan together, commit together, and work together.

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SAFe in Motion:
Accelerate Time-to-Market with
The Business Agility Value Stream
 The traditional approach won’t get you there

Business opportunity Business opportunity

emerges leveraged (or too late?)

… 18 - 24 months …

Funding
budget cycle
Requirements

Design

Implementation

Verification

Learn
Redo?
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 Introducing the Business Agility Value Stream

Business opportunity Business opportunity

emerges leveraged

QUICK RESPONSE
Business Agility TO
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY

Sense Fund Organize Connect to Deliver Pivot or Deliver value Learn and
opportunity MVP around value customer MVP persevere continuously adapt

2 – 6 months to Minimum Viable Product

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Apply SAFe’s
seven core
competencies to
achieve
business agility

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 Sense opportunity Sense
Opportunity

Foster market-sensing activities

→ Market research
Organizational
→ Analysis of quantitative and qualitative data Agility

→ Direct and indirect customer feedback

→ Direct observation of the customers in the marketplace

Take a Gemba Walk

Spend time where your customers perform work and

return with current, relevant, and specific information
about the realities of their products and services. This
will help you identify opportunities for innovative new
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 Fund MVP Fund MVP

Quickly respond to opportunities with

nimble funding

→ Develop the Lean Portfolio Management competency Lean Portfolio

and use Lean Budgeting to quickly allocate funds to Management
build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)—an early
version of the solution used to evaluate the primary
business hypothesis.

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 Organize Around Value Organize
Around Value

Organize around value to address opportunity

and optimize value delivery

→ Build technology portfolios of development value

streams
Team and Organizational
→ Realize value streams with product-focused Agile Technical Agility Agility
Release Trains (ARTs)
→ Form Agile teams that can directly deliver value

Build an MVP with existing Agile Teams or Agile

Release Trains (ARTs).
In some cases, creating an MVP may involve modifying
existing teams and ARTs or entirely new development
value stream may need to be formed.
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 Connect to Customer Connect to
Customer

Create positive experiences for the customer

throughout the entire customer journey

→ A Customer Centricity mindset assures a direct

connection to the customer
Agile Product Enterprise Solution
→ Design Thinking help teams achieve positive Delivery Delivery
experiences by empathizing with the user to design
the right solution.

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 Deliver MVP Deliver MVP

Deliver the MVP iteratively and incrementally,

following Lean-Agile practices

There are differences in how teams work on an

MVP compared to evolving functionality in a mature
solution. Agile Product Enterprise Solution
Delivery Delivery
→ There is more risk and uncertainty. Unknowns may
manifest in critical areas, including technology
choices, implementation strategy, organizational
expertise, deployment, operations, customer
acceptance, and business benefits.

→ More experimentation and even faster feedback are

required. And that is exactly what SAFe is
optimized for.
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 Pivot or Persevere Pivot or
Persevere

This decision point is a crucial investment

milestone

The result of the MVP is a set of facts that support a

decision regarding whether to proceed with further
development. Lean Portfolio
Management
→ If the hypothesis is disproven, the organization accepts
the sunk cost and moves on to other opportunities.
If hypothesis continue
is proven: development
→ If the hypothesis proves beneficial, additional funding
follows to enable further development. Pivot:
If not: Create a new
The MVP outcome is not always a simple yes hypothesis
or no. The experiment may yield vital insights
that reveal new alternative solutions. or Stop
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 Deliver Value Continuously Deliver Value
Continuously

A successful MVP opens the gates to

deliver additional solution features

→ This process relies on Agile Product Delivery that

fosters iterative and incremental development powered by
the ART. Agile Product Enterprise Solution
Delivery Delivery
→ Building on DevOps, these practices include optimizing a
Continuous Delivery Pipeline that ensures a steady
flow of value and the ability to release on-demand to meet
the needs of customers.

→ For some organizations, these solutions represent large

and complex applications and cyber-physical systems
that require thousands of developers and many suppliers
to coordinate their efforts within a Solution Train.
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 Learn and Adapt Learn
and Adapt

Measure organizational competency,

product development flow, and business outcomes

Continuous
Learning Culture

Competency

Business opportunity Business opportunity

emerges leveraged

Business Agility

Sense Fund Organize Connect to Deliver Pivot or Deliver value Learn

opportunity MVP around value Customer MVP persevere continuously and adapt

Outcomes
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Flow
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 Lean-Agile Leadership
None of this can happen without Lean-Agile
Leadership, the foundation of SAFe and the BAVS
N

Lean-Agile Leadership

“It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to
quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they must do.

These obligations can not be delegated.”

—W. Edwards Deming, Out of the Crisis

Portrait of W. Edwards Deming.
Photo courtesy of The W. Edwards Deming Institute ®.

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That’s fast.

But we can go even

faster with SAFe 6.0.
 “To enable fast and predictable lead times
in any value stream, there is usually a
relentless focus on creating a smooth and
even flow of work.”
 —Gene Kim et al., The DevOps Handbook

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Eight properties of a flow-based system

6 → Flow occurs when

there is a smooth,
4 linear, and fast
movement of work
product through the
8
steps in a value
stream

5 → Flow properties
3
2 describe the elements
7
that always exist in a
flow system

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Eight flow accelerators

1. Visualize and Limit WIP

→ Every accelerator
2. Address Bottlenecks
offers an
3. Minimize Handoffs and Dependencies opportunity to
optimize each flow
4. Get Faster Feedback
property
5. Work in Smaller Batches
→ This is the topic of
6. Reduce Queue Length SAFe Principle #6:
7. Optimize Time ‘In the Zone’ “Make value flow
without
8. Remediate Legacy Policies and Practices interruptions”

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Accelerators apply differently to each SAFe level

→ Four new articles describe

applying the eight flow
accelerators:
 Team Flow
 ART Flow
 Solution Train Flow
 Portfolio Flow

→ Each article offers techniques

for addressing, optimizing, and
debugging issues with achieving
continuous value flow at that
specific level

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 “With our ability to measure flow, suddenly we
have a new and quantitative basis to understand
what’s happening, how things are working, and
what we can do to improve.

This may be the greatest breakthrough in SAFe,

and our industries’ understanding of how to
measure and improve what was formerly
intangible and immeasurable.”
 —Andrew Sales
Chief Methodologist, Scaled Agile, Inc.

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How do we know we are going faster? Measure flow.

FLOW METRICS
Flow Load
Total work-in-progress Flow
Distribution
Proportion of each
item type

Flow
Predictability
Flow Efficiency
Planned vs. Flow
Active vs. waiting
actual value Velocity
Items done in a
given period
Flow Time
Time from entry
to delivery
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Putting SAFe to Work in Your Enterprise
Follow a proven path

SAFe® Implementation Roadmap

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 The SAFe system
empowers everyone
in the enterprise to
succeed with SAFe

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 The world’s
most trusted
system for
business agility

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 Scaled Agile
Framework ®

The essential
knowledge component
of the SAFe system

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 SAFe Studio ®

Learn, practice, and

manage with SAFe Studio,
a platform for teams to
succeed with SAFe

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 SAFe
Community
Global events, networking,
forums, and Communities
of Practice to help SAFe
participants succeed in
their role

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 Scaled Agile Global
Partner Network
More than 500
Transformation and
Platform Partners ensure
success for teams and
the enterprise

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 Scaled Agile Partners Guide
500 Customer Success
Partners
Worldwide → Strategic Advisory Services

→ SAFe implementation and ART execution

→ Client Delivery Services

→ Training and coaching for all SAFe roles

→ Technology platforms for SAFe

collaboration, automation, visibility, flow

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Countries

500
Partners

Scaled Agile 30+

Languages
Global Partner Spoken

Network

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 SAFe Enterprise Subscription
®

Enable sustainable change at scale

LEARN PRACTICE MANAGE

→ Unlimited access to → Practice resources → Enterprise capabilities
trainer-led courses
with certification → Collaboration tools → Subscription benefits

→ Specialty courses → Assessment tools → Customer Success

Manager
→ Online learning series

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 Value of SAFe
Professional
Certification

→ Comprehensive learning path to prepare

and establish a firm understanding of
SAFe
→ Validation of knowledge and recognition of
accomplishment
→ Increased confidence to support enterprise
goals
→ Better prepared for SAFe roles in the
enterprise
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 SAFe Certifications Validate Skills and Open
Doors for Career Advancement

Core Team Practices Specialist Roles Advanced

Certified Certified Certified SAFe® Certified SAFe® Certified SAFe® Certified Certified
SAFe® SAFe® Scrum Master Advanced Scrum Product SAFe® Practice SAFe® Practice
Agilist (SA) Practitioner (SP) (SSM) Master (SASM) Owner/Product Consultant (SPC) Consultant-T
Manager (POPM) (SPCT)

Certified SAFe® Certified SAFe® Certified SAFe® Certified SAFe® Certified SAFe®
DevOps Practitioner Release Train Architect Agile Product Lean Portfolio Manager
(SDP) Engineer (RTE) (ARCH) Manager (APM) (LPM)
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How is SAFe Performing for Customers?
 “Our research tells us that
implementing SAFe can deliver
significant, measurable business
value in complex initiatives, by
coordinating the work of multiple
teams.”

—Gartner Research: 10 Essential Practices for

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 Clientsbyinclude
Trusted leading
the World’s companies
Leading Brands in the Global 2000
Aerospace Automotive Energy

Financial Services Telecom Government

Technology Healthcare

Dutch Tax Administration

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 → 10% Improvement in Productivity
→ 15% Improvement in Touchless
Transactions

“We are getting a extensive response

from the market. Seeing 95% of orders
go touchless, it means a huge difference
to our customers.”
—Maninder Bedi
VP, Global Quote-to-Order Strategy & Operation

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 “We decided to go to SAFe, because
this has, of course, some really good
advantages for us, because we have
one language for all people. So
everybody understands right now what
we are talking about.”

—Dr. Oliver Seifert

VP R&D Electric/Electronics
Dr.lng.hc.F. Porsche AG

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 “We wanted to experiment and demonstrate Agile
principles and practices across domains. By
empowering each business domain, acknowledging
specific contexts in domains, fostering sharing, and ‘try
and learn,’ SAFe has helped us get on the right track to
success.”
—Claire Charbit
Program Management NWOW
#agile Adoption, Air France-KLM

SAFe teams release SAFe teams released 17 Company gained 20%

20% more effectively times in live environment in market share in small
than waterfall teams seven months compared to and medium logistics
every six months previously market alone

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 With SAFe, Chevron
estimates they migrated
“A year ago, we had not moved a single
applications 66% – 80%
sooner than they would application to the cloud. Today, our internal
have in waterfall customers are using key patterns and paths to
migrate the application portfolio. With SAFe,
we have the structure to continue to enhance
these patterns and provide support to
migration teams.”
— Konstantin Popov
Project Manager, Chevron

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 “We, we had an immediate increase in flow. Our
throughput of the very first PI increased some 50%.”

“When customer centricity was added to SAFe, we

became more customer centric, even though it was
always there. But when you call that out explicitly, it
really changes the way you do things.”
—Oden Hughes
Oden Hughes, Director, Enterprise Agility Success
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