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Swifter Time-to-Market

Align cross-functional teams of Agile teams around value and accelerate time to market.

Enhanced Productivity

Empower teams to eliminate unnecessary work and ensure they are building the right things.

Engaged Workforce

Unlock intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers, giving them autonomy, mastery, purpose.

Improved Quality

Make customer value your top priority with built-in quality at every step of development.

Benefits of SAFe® for the enterprise

1

30 - 75%

Faster time-to-market
2

20 – 50%

Increase in productivity
3

10 - 50%

Happier, motivated employees
4

25 - 75%

Improvements in quality

Considering adopting the Scaled Agile Framework in your business,
but not sure where to start?

Considering adopting the Scaled Agile Framework in your business, but not sure where to start?

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ASSESSMENT OF AGILE ADOPTION MATURITY

KnowledgeHut SPCs will start by assessing your organization’s SAFe adoption maturity. They will craft an adoption strategy and a transformation backlog including all training needs.

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TRAINING, COACHING, AND IMPLEMENTATION

KnowledgeHut SPCs will guide you along the SAFe implementation roadmap. This customizable training module will cover best practices, tools, and challenges associated with SAFe adoption.

3
SUSTAINING AND IMPROVING BUSINESS AGILITY

Our elite pool of SPCs will work with you throughout your entire transformation and beyond as an extended part of your team.

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Training and Certifications to Aid
SAFe® Implementation

SAFe® Foundations

Equip your teams with the skills to become high-performance team members on an Agile Release Train (ART) and collaborate effectively with other teams with the SAFe® 5 Practitioner certification. Teams will learn the importance of mastering Business Agility to thrive in the digital age by leveraging SAFe with the Leading SAFe certification.

The SAFe® Scrum Master certification prepares attendees to successfully plan and execute the Program Increment (PI) and the SAFe® Product Owner/Product Manager certification gives them the skillsets needed to guide the delivery of value in a Lean enterprise.

Leading SAFe

SAFe Scrum Master

SAFe for Teams

SAFe Product Owner

SAFe DevOps

SAFe for Architects

SAFe Agile Software Engineering

Technical Leadership

With the SAFe® DevOps certification, teams will learn to cultivate a shared DevOps mindset among all the people needed to define, build, test, deploy, and release software-driven systems. The training will help people across technical, non-technical, and leadership roles work together to optimize their value stream from end to end.

The SAFe® for Architects certification prepares System, Solution, and Enterprise Architects to engage across the organization as effective leaders and change agents who collaboratively deliver architectural solutions. The SAFe® Agile Software Engineering certification helps teams understand the importance of continuous flow of value delivery and built-in quality in modern practices including XP technical practices, Behavioral-Driven Development (BDD), and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Portfolio Leadership

Empower your teams to overcome issues of legacy governance, contracting and other organizational barriers in the government context with the right skills and strategies.

The SAFe® for Government certification will give your teams the skills to build high performing, multi-vendor Agile teams and programs and learn how specific leadership behaviors can drive successful organizational change in government.

With the SAFe® Lean Portfolio Management certification, teams will acquire the skills, tools, and techniques necessary to implement the Lean Portfolio Management functions of Strategy and Investment Funding, Agile Portfolio Operations, and Lean Governance.

SAFe for Governments

Lean Portfolio Management

SAFe Advanced Scrum Master

SAFe Release Train Engineer

SAFe Implementation

Coaching Excellence

The SAFe® 5 Program Consultant (SPC) certification helps senior team members become change agents, empowering them to train and certify others in a range of SAFe courses.

The SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master course empowers Scrum Masters in their leadership role in facilitating Agile team, program, and enterprise success in SAFe implementation. The SAFe® 5 Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification gives teams the skills to facilitate and enable end-to-end value delivery through ARTs and build high-performing ARTs by becoming a servant leader and coach.

Leading SAFe

SAFe Scrum Master

SAFe for Teams

SAFe Product Owner

SAFe DevOps

SAFe for Architects

SAFe Agile Software Engineering

SAFe for Governments

Lean Portfolio Management

SAFe Advanced Scrum Master

SAFe Release Train Engineer

SAFe Implementation

Your teams are only as successful as their skills are relevant. Empower your teams to scale Agile.

Skill Up Your Teams

Get to know our team, technical and enterprise Agile Coaches

V-Subramanyam

Lori Priller

SPC, Agile Coach, Associate Director LPM at Eli Lilly
Kelly-Fidei

Kelly Fidei

SAFe Program Consultant, ICAgile Certified Coach
Mohammed-Rowther

Mohammed Rowther

SAFe Program Consultant, SAFe Release Train Engineer
Kumar-Manu

Kumar Manu

SAFe Program Consultant, Certified Agile Coach Trainer
Mansoor-Mohammed

Mansoor Mohammed

SAFe Program Consultant
Subrahmaniam-SRV

Subrahmaniam S.R.V

SAFe Program Consultant, OKR Coach Network Founding Member
V-Subramanyam

V Subramanyam

SAFe Program Consultant
V-Subramanyam

Rahul Gujar

SPC, PMI DA Instructor, Agile Coach
V-Subramanyam

Vinod Narayanswamy

SPC, SAFe® RTE, Agile Coach
V-Subramanyam

Sanjay Singh Rawat

SPC, Enterprise Agile Coach
V-Subramanyam

Priyal Arvind Karekar

SPC, Kanban Trainer, Agile Coach
V-Subramanyam

Krishnakumar Kuppusamy

SPC, Agile Coach
V-Subramanyam

Kiran Ravula

SPC, SAFe® RTE, Agile Coach

Technology

The company had begun exploring the use of Agile methods to improve processes and increase efficiency across the organization. With a traditional, project-based approach to software development, release cycle time averaged 18 months.

They struggled to streamline their processes and turnaround times were longer than they needed to be. Senior management and leadership team of the organization in this transitional journey were willing to explore SAFe. They had to find a way to accelerate delivery to meet market demands.

Challenge

The company sought to transition from traditional development to Agile, as well as bring an Agile mindset to business units beyond software to address the needs of a dynamic customer environment.

Solution

With the SAFe implementation, the company was able to bring average release cycle times down from 18 months to 6 months. Sprint and PI deliveries were on time, leading to release on demand.

Pharmaceuticals

Although the company had started using Agile practices for several years at a small scale, it had continued to deliver most of its programs using traditional approaches. Taking the decision to adopt Agile methods more broadly across its IT change portfolio, the company sought help to support their transformation effort.

They were looking for a framework to help them scale Agile quickly as they ran large, complex programs. Scaled Agile Framework® was selected as the framework to be applied to support the adoption of Agile.

Challenge

The challenge was to find a framework that would help them scale Agile practices across a large global change portfolio. The Agile adoption approach focused on organization and culture change, supporting Agile teams directly.

Solution

The company focused on the culture shift required to support Agile by creating Culture Leaders. They aligned funding and governance approval with Agile ways of working, enabling teams to make progress quickly and benefit from Agile delivery.

Telecommunications

The company had initiated plans to bring a new TV offering to the market, to go beyond the basic product currently available. They intended to add features that newly available technology would make possible. Adding urgency, the company’s largest competitor had reportedly already begun work on a similar product.

The company ran a waterfall, multi-project environment that was transitioning into a home-grown, scaled Scrum approach. The Engineering group now sought to scale Agile in earnest, leading it to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

Challenge

The company had to move quickly to bring a new TV product to market since a competitor had already begun a similar effort. They tried to come up with many approaches to scale Agile on their own but were not successful.

Solution

The company reduced end-to-end test team size from dozens to just three, while maintaining quality and deploying those individuals to other value-producing functions. The Program Increment with SAFe led to new alignment and momentum.

Banking

Although the IT team implements upwards of 450 projects every year to help the bank move fast and stay ahead, yet traditionally, teams have completed only a small percentage of projects within the defined timeframe, budget, and scope.

To improve the success rate, the Bank tried a few Lean-Agile pilots. However, their efforts faced headwinds when they attempted to expand beyond a few teams working in isolation. They had tried waterfall, a combined team approach, and other frameworks, but nothing addressed the challenge of delivering value across organizational silos.

Challenge

The bank sought to improve service quality, efficiency, and employee morale, but previous efforts to scale Lean-Agile beyond a few teams had stalled.

Solution

The Bank moved from individual recognition to team awards and KPIs, which increased excitement and engagement through gamification, skills building, and automation. The Bank started the transition with IT and engaged business owners early. SAFe, coupled with a focus on engineering, took the Bank to the next level.

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