Customizing SAFe to Your Context
Align the SAFe Framework to Your Unique Context, Confidently
SAFe is a comprehensive operating model for business agility, designed to be customized to the specific needs of your context. Effectively customizing the framework can unlock huge value, and the Customizing SAFe® to Your Context Workshop provides the proven, structured method to do it right.
This workshop guides you and your team to first describe the core reasons for change, then how to use SAFe’s guardrails to make customizations safely and effectively. Your team will apply a step-by-step process to design, document, and implement the changes, validating each potential customization with the guardrails to ensure you customize safely and for maximum benefit.
Outcomes
- Optimize your operations and value flow with SAFe customized to your specific business context.
- Customize SAFe with confidence by applying a step-by-step process guided by SAFe’s guardrails.
- Drive stronger buy-in and alignment by effectively documenting and communicating customization changes.
- Lead the organization’s customization discussions as an ASPC or SPCT, ensuring all changes are safe and effective.
Overcome challenges
- Struggling to apply SAFe to meet unique industry-specific requirements or regulatory needs.
- Facing difficulty integrating new technologies or external practices.
- Finding that SAFe terminology doesn’t align with your organization’s established internal language, creating a barrier to adoption.
- Feeling hesitant to make necessary customizations due to the risk diminishing SAFe’s benefits.
What will you explore and achieve?
In this workshop, you and your team will learn a powerful, step-by-step process for evaluating potential SAFe modifications. This collaborative experience will guide you to:
1) Identify the need for potentially customizing SAFe
2) Identify the proposed changes
3) Determine if each proposed change requires a true customization or can be addressed through configuration
4) Validate each customization against SAFe’s guardrails.
You will also explore how to document and communicate the path forward, whether you choose to implement a customization or confidently decide against it, ensuring you leave with a reasoned, safe, and actionable decision for your organization
Adapt, Improve, and Extend
- Struggling to apply SAFe to meet unique industry-specific requirements or regulatory needs.
- Facing difficulty integrating new technologies or external practices.
- The Customizing SAFe to Your Context Workshop gives you the flexibility to succeed in any context by showing you how to Adapt, Improve, and Extend the Framework.
- Adapt by modifying elements to fit your specific business or technology needs.
- Improve by enhancing parts of the framework based on what you learn in practice
- Extend by using SAFe in innovative ways not originally specified.
- Feeling hesitant to make necessary customizations due to the risk diminishing SAFe’s benefits.
Who should attend?
- LACE leaders
- Divisional agile change leaders.
- Representatives from functions, processes, or systems impacted by the changes (e.g., Audit, Finance, HR).
- Leaders who will be impacted by the customizations or are responsible for communicating the changes and leading the implementation.