SAFe Leadership
Skills
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Leadership help growing organizations add value in several ways, including:
Improved productivity
- According to the official SAFe website, organizations can see a 20–50% increase in productivity.
Faster time to market
- SAFe can help organizations get products and services to market 30–75% faster by streamlining processes and focusing on value delivery.
Better quality
- Clients report a 27–75% improvement in quality. SAFe's principles, which are based on lean development, can help organizations deliver quality software.
Better employee engagement
- Clients report a 10–50% improvement in employee engagement. SAFe encourages trust-building behaviors, such as planning work in smaller batches so problems can be identified sooner.
Improved collaboration
- SAFe promotes better communication and collaboration across different departments and teams. For example, SAFe's PI planning process can help create collaboration between team members and provide a common language for communication between technology and business.
Improved agility
- SAFe helps organizations maintain agility even at a large scale, allowing them to adapt to changing market demands.
Change vision
- Occurs when leaders effectively communicate why change is needed and do so in ways that inspire, motivate, and engage people to buy into the change with a sense of urgency.
A powerful coalition for change
- formed when a ‘volunteer army’ of individuals from multiple levels, across silos, and with diverse perspectives are empowered to contribute to and help overcome barriers to implementing the change.
Change leadership
- Ability to positively influence and motivate others to engage in organizational change through the leader’s personal advocacy and drive. It includes producing and celebrating short-term wins, reinforcing the change until the desired outcomes are achieved, and anchoring the change in the organization as the ‘new normal.’
Psychological safety
- SAFe Agile leaders create an environment for risk-taking that supports change without fear of negative consequences to self-image, status, or career.
Training the new way of working
- Ensures that everyone is trained in the values, principles, and practices of Lean and Agile, including a commitment by leaders to their training so they can lead by example.