January 2018 / The Ultimate SAFe Resource: News, Articles, Videos, Downloads,
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Scaled Agile celebrates growth milestone: 200,000 SAFe-trained professionals! 

We’re proud to announce that 200,000 professionals have received training through our role-based SAFe training and certification program. The upward trajectory of the number of people taking SAFe classes mirrors the increasing number of businesses adopting SAFe. We attribute this to one simple fact; SAFe is delivering measurable business results—including substantial improvements in quality, productivity, time-to-market, and employee engagement—and the more people trained, the better the results. Learn more here.

Beta SAFe DevOps course offered next month in Boulder, Colorado

On February 13 – 15, we’re holding a beta class at our headquarters in Boulder: Applied DevOps and Continuous Delivery with SAFe. Taught by SAFe Fellow Inbar Oren and SPC Marc Rix, this three-day course covers the hands-on skills needed to accelerate time-to-market by improving the flow of value through a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps. Learn more about the class and register for it here.

Dr. Steve Mayner and Ian Spence inducted into SAFe Fellow program

We’re excited to welcome two new members to the SAFe Fellow family: Dr. Steve Mayner, SPCT, Scaled Agile Inc. and Ian Spence, Chief Scientist, Ivar Jacobson International. Both have distinguished themselves as thought leaders in the Lean-Agile space, and have demonstrated success in implementing SAFe in a broad range of industries and disciplines. Learn more here.

Is it better to be overprepared or underprepared for PI Planning?

PI Planning events can be both energizing and stressful. Many practitioners attempt to get ready for the event by preparing their Features ahead of time. But is that a good idea? Or does it return us too much to waterfall practices? In a four-part series of blog articles, SAFe Fellow Ian Spence discusses the challenges of refining Features in the Program Backlog, the seven deadly sins of Feature preparation, how to define Feature readiness, and some practical tips to avoid waterfalling Features. Click here to read the first article.

12 traits of a great Release Train Engineer

The Release Train Engineer (RTE) is a key player within SAFe, and the SAFe RTE course provides best practices for success in this role. But since it is still fairly new, many HR departments and leadership teams have struggled with what to screen for when searching for the ideal RTE, according to Roy Maines of Solutions IQ. In a recent blog post, he identifies the 12 key traits that make for a great RTE. He also calls out three must-have technical skills for the role. Read the post to learn more.

Federal Aviation Administration awards major contract for SAFe support

In yet another indicator of the growing trend of SAFe being applied in government, Big Lake Software was awarded a contract to provide SAFe program consulting services for the FAA Enterprise Services Center with their business partner and prime contractor Science Applications International Corporation. Read the press release to learn more.

New videos tell the insider story of three high-level implementations

Standard Bank 

  • Alex Keyter, Lean Agile Transformation Consultant
  • The Journey to Agile at Scale
  • Africa's largest bank found a solution in SAFe for delivering value across organizational silos as it embarks on approximately 600 IT projects every year involving the more than 2,000 systems that support operations in 20 sub-Saharan countries.

Intel 

  • Allen Ringel, Senior Lean/Agile Transformation Leader
  • Staying Ahead of Moore’s Law
  • After discovering SAFe in 2013, Intel’s Manufacturing Validation Engineering (MVE) organization has grown Lean-Agile practices at a pace that rivals Moore’s Law.

Capital One

  • Anand Francis, Director, Agile Coach, and Greg Jaeger, Master Agile Coach
  • Reimagining Product and Delivery Through Agile
  • SAFe provides Capital One with the foundation, practices, and methodologies to help Agile teams interact and plan together, and coordinate multiple teams working on the product at the same time.
 

Webinar: SAFe 4.5 out-of-the-box: implementing SAFe with Metronome 

Dean Leffingwell, Creator of SAFe

February 7, 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST
REGISTER HERE

 

Conference booth: Scaled Agile and SAFe 

Michael Stump, SAFe Fellow
Pranjal Swarup, Partner Manager
ISEC 2018, Hyderabad, India

February 10 - 11
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Presentation: a SAFe perspective to ITIL

Inbar Oren, SAFe Fellow
IT Service Management Conference & Exhibition (Pink18) Orlando, FL

February 18 - 21
REGISTER HERE

 

Presentation: better SAFe than sorry

Chris James, President & COO
Agile India 2018, Bengaluru, India

March 6 - 9
REGISTER HERE

 
 

In memoriam

We mourn the unexpected passing of our friend and collaborator Daryl Winters. Daryl was an early and long-standing member of the SPCT community, and his passing impacts many in the SAFe community.

“Daryl leaves a legacy of passion for his work in the industry, and the many great friendships he made along the way,” the Icon Agility Services team said in a statement. He will be missed and his passing is a great loss for all of us. Rest in peace, Daryl.
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