{"id":15429,"date":"2021-09-13T18:02:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T12:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/?p=15424"},"modified":"2022-10-06T16:44:28","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:14:28","slug":"enabling-safe-framework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/cloud\/enabling-safe-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling SAFe Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>INTRODUCTION:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You must be wondering&nbsp;about the word&nbsp;SAFe&nbsp;in the main header&nbsp;SAFe&nbsp;is basically \u2013 SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK. Now, what is AGILE?&nbsp;An Agile framework, in simple terms, can be defined as an unambiguous software-development approach based on the agile philosophy articulated in the Agile manifesto.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/scaledagile.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SAFe&nbsp;<\/a>is just like a template for scaling agile principles and tools to large organizations.&nbsp;SAFe&nbsp;is a framework that is meant to cover the whole organization. It operates on three-level:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>portfolio management<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>program<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Team<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&nbsp;can&nbsp;&nbsp;consider&nbsp;SAFe as a&nbsp;well-structured&nbsp;and&nbsp;interactive knowledge base to guide you in work planning, team management, organizational value upholding, role distribution, and handling of responsibilities at various levels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For organizations with&nbsp;multifarious&nbsp;structures and processes, SAFe is the effective method to leverage the advantages of Lean-agile methodologies and systems development through design thinking.&nbsp;If implemented carefully,&nbsp;SAFe&nbsp;will help you&nbsp;in&nbsp; scaling&nbsp;agile faster for your organization.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u202fCore Values:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To deploy agile to&nbsp;any&nbsp;&nbsp;organization, SAFe suggests a set of values that leadership must have. It focuses&nbsp;on&nbsp;&nbsp;the&nbsp;ideal culture for the business setup for the impactful implementation of the framework. The core values promoted by&nbsp;the&nbsp;SAFe are:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Transparency<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Transparency is the key&nbsp;mechanism&nbsp;for trust-building in an organization. Therefore,&nbsp;SAFe encourages adding numerous&nbsp;milestones in each project and planning work in small&nbsp;batches. By doing this, businesses can notice the&nbsp;shortcomings quickly,&nbsp;check&nbsp; processes&nbsp;in real-time, and inspect the workflow without hassles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Program Execution<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Teams and programs must both deliver value. For this, program execution must be handled very&nbsp;thoroughly. SAFe encourages&nbsp;frequent&nbsp;delivery of value through software products as well as business processes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/2ndx9qsiilf49myna33rt8m1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/SAFe_5.1_Portfolio_SAFe_ImageMap-1110x569.png\" alt=\"Enabling SAFe Framework\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In-built Quality<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;QoS&nbsp;and products&nbsp;is&nbsp;very important in SAFe. It considers that&nbsp;prepared&nbsp;is an objective term and must be defined when used. For example, when a team member&nbsp;makes a change to&nbsp;the status of a task and&nbsp;updates progress made, or has concerns, it must be written. This is&nbsp;done&nbsp;because, by using quality-oriented practices, service and&nbsp;product&nbsp;,quality&nbsp;can be maintained very easily.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the context&nbsp;of software development, this core value should be attained for:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Process flow.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Design quality.&nbsp;<\/li><li>System quality.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Release quality.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Code quality.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alignment<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All individuals&nbsp;who are&nbsp;relevant&nbsp;and&nbsp;all&nbsp;&nbsp;hierarchy&nbsp;levels in the organization must understand the current state of the business, its approaching goals, and plan execution strategy. For&nbsp;this&nbsp;,both&nbsp;&nbsp;the&nbsp;downward&nbsp;and&nbsp;upward&nbsp;&nbsp;flow of info&nbsp;must be timely, uniform, and&nbsp;should be&nbsp;well-controlled. Businesses also need to have a&nbsp;trustworthy&nbsp;communication channel, rhythm in feedbacks (and their execution), and effective strategies for the implementation of plans.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leadership<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All core values listed above depend directly or indirectly on the organization&#8217;s&nbsp;headship. SAFe promotes lean-agile leadership behavior. Creating the&nbsp;required&nbsp;environment and improving the systems to help the other&nbsp;gears&nbsp;(human and non-human) of the business embrace the core values suggested.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Scaled Agile Framework Principles<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SAFe framework principles focus on improving each&nbsp;constituent&nbsp;of your organization through better decision-making. It tries to help businesses do well on the functional as well as the organizational&nbsp;face. For this, it encourages enhancing decision-making for everyone \u2014 including managers and the people in the lower levels of the organization&nbsp;chain of command.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Lean Portfolio Management techniques are used&nbsp;in&nbsp;&nbsp;deploying&nbsp;SAFe principles, while the purpose of this execution being \u2014 enables&nbsp;everyone to cultivate a lean-agile mindset.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"section\" data-elementor-id=\"33253\" class=\"elementor elementor-33253\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1f27ef0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1f27ef0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;gradient&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container 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class=\"elementor-button-text\">Start Today !<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The SAFe Principles:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Principle 1:<\/strong>\u202fSort&nbsp;jobs in a&nbsp;sensible&nbsp;order,&nbsp;figure out&nbsp;economic trade-offs, execute the plan as per the&nbsp;resources.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Principle 2:<\/strong>\u202fUse Systems thinking for the solution, business ecosystem and value streams. Here, value streams refers&nbsp;to the flow of&nbsp;significance&nbsp;in functional and organizational domains.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Principle 3:<\/strong>\u202fAlways&nbsp;have in mind&nbsp;possible&nbsp;risk&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;pits&nbsp;.&nbsp;Have a secondary action plan to handle the uncertainty.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Principle 4:<\/strong>\u202fWith the project milestones, also deploy&nbsp;the&nbsp;&nbsp;learning&nbsp;milestones. An organization should&nbsp;target to come up with a scalable,&nbsp;viable,&nbsp;efficient, well-designed, and quality-oriented product. For this&nbsp;to achieve, regular self-reflection phases and learning milestones are essential.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Principle 5:<\/strong>\u202fPerform objective&nbsp;assessment&nbsp;of your working systems and take milestones-related decisions as per that.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Principle 6:<\/strong>\u202fCreate small batch sizes and milestones for your work in order to&nbsp;efficiently&nbsp;handle errors at the early&nbsp;periods&nbsp;as they arrive.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Principle 7:<\/strong>\u202fReflect on your work through&nbsp;continous&nbsp;reviewing and feedback sessions. Such type of&nbsp;tempo&nbsp;should be put in place for everything&nbsp;in the organization&nbsp;and&nbsp;harmonized&nbsp;with cross-domain strategy-making&nbsp;process.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Principle 8:<\/strong>\u202fRather than instructing and showing off the power&nbsp;to the lower gears, top-level&nbsp;officials must guide their team members&nbsp;through knowledge and coaching skills.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Principle 9:<\/strong>\u202fGive your teams the opportunity to make some decisions on their own and&nbsp;maintain&nbsp;the decision-making authority for yourself when the subject seems more critical.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Deployment of SAFe at Work<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To implement The&nbsp;SAFe&nbsp;in your workplace, you must take the following steps:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>stick&nbsp;to SAFe core principles and values for your practices.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Figure out the main&nbsp;gears&nbsp;of the SAFe framework in your organization, such as value streams,&nbsp;Agile Release Trains.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Train your teams (all levels) to handle lean-agile change management and tell them&nbsp;systematically&nbsp;about SAFe.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Plan the SAFe deployment&nbsp;tactic&nbsp;and implement it.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Prepare for ART Launch, make your team&nbsp;competent&nbsp;enough to handle ART, and launch ART in the end.&nbsp;<\/li><li>ART execution, value streams management, and&nbsp;administer&nbsp;a portfolio.&nbsp;<\/li><li>Continual monitoring for&nbsp;strengthening&nbsp;&nbsp;and&nbsp;regular improvements on the go.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Final Word<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SAFe and&nbsp;some&nbsp;other similar frameworks help organizations to&nbsp;improve their&nbsp;feasibility, scale agile, achieve more and transform digitally. Though initial deployment may take some time, deploying The&nbsp;SAFe&nbsp;for your organization is totally worth it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>iSmile technologies offers free consultation with an expert,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/contact-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">talk with an expert now<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTRODUCTION:&nbsp; You must be wondering&nbsp;about the word&nbsp;SAFe&nbsp;in the main header&nbsp;SAFe&nbsp;is basically \u2013 SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK. Now, what is AGILE?&nbsp;An Agile framework, in simple terms, can be defined as an unambiguous software-development approach based on the agile philosophy articulated in the Agile manifesto.&nbsp;SAFe&nbsp;is just like a template for scaling agile principles and tools to large organizations.&nbsp;SAFe&nbsp;is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-15429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","tag-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15429"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33581,"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15429\/revisions\/33581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}