Why I chose SAFe®

One of Deming’s most basic principles is that leadership cannot be delegated.  As a PM, have you ever tried to talk to your boss about the value of switching from waterfall to agile?  Have you done it in the context of a particular product delivery or program?  Did the light go out of their eyes as you spoke?

Achieving real business agility is not just a PM thing.  Agile teams and technical agility is only one of the core principles necessary to achieve business agility.  Your company’s agile transformation will only be as successful as the most senior leader bought-in.

Across the spectrum of agile frameworks, methodologies and variants, only SAFe® takes a “leadership first” approach to training Lean and Agile change agents.  More importantly, they have tangible business results to back it up:

• 30 – 75% faster time to market
• 25 – 75% better quality
• 20 – 50% increase in productivity
• 10 – 50% increased employee engagement & satisfaction

Don’t take my word for it, check out the real world case studies from companies like: Cisco, Lockheed Martin, PepsiCo, Capital One, Intel, Anthem, HP and many, many more.

SAFe® codifies all of this with the “Leading SAFe®” course, designed to re-educate business leaders in how to become the change their organization needs.  I’ll be facilitating this course monthly in LA.  When you’re ready to start achieving the business results above, come join us and get your SAFe® Agilist certification.