The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) focuses on the optimisation of IT in functionally-divided organisations. Drawing on popular Agile and Lean methods, SAFe provides a structure and body of knowledge for IT professionals to increase the efficiency of software delivery. With all of the good practice that it references, however, SAFe does not adequately address the complexity of the 21st century business environment and the challenges most companies face. "Lean Enterprise: How High Performing Organizations Innovate at Scale", written by Jez Humble, Barry O’Reilly, and Joanne Molesky as part of Eric Reis’ “Lean Series”, does embrace these issues. In this presentation, Keith Dodds and Ian Kelsall take a look at the dynamic interplay of business, leadership, and technology, exploring the reality that many organisations face today: technology is as much a driver for customer intimacy and business growth as it is an enabler of business performance.

1. L E A N E N T E R P R I S E
AN INNOVATION-LED
ALTERNATE TO SAFe
Keith Dodds + Ian Kelsall

3. Inappropriate
Organisational
Structure
Inflexible business
processes
Source: McKinsey & Co, June 2014
DIGITAL HURDLES
Difficulty
finding talent
Lack of
experimentation
mind-set
Lack of quality data

4. SCALING AGILE < > SAFe
SAFe is good. It's just not good enough.
It provides some benefit, but endangers an organization's progress
toward really high functioning.
As someone who has been in the Agile movement since before it started,
I do not like it. It's fast food. You can do better.
Ron Jefferies - Feb 2014
RON JEFFERIES KEN SCHWABER MARTIN FOWLER MIKE COHN

7. 2015

8. PURPOSE

9. $500Bn

10. PRINCIPLE OF MISSION

11. BAKE IN CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
The Improvement Kata, courtesy of Mike Rother

12. NURTURE YOUR CULTURE

13. A SECOND OPERATING MODEL
HIERACHY NETWORK
John Kotter’s Accelerate Model

14. MODEL TO MITIGATE RISK

15. Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4FINANCIAL YEAR
BEYOND BUDGETS

16. • CODE
• BUILD
• PLAN
• RELEASE
• TO TEST FLIGHT
• CODE
• BUILD
• PLAN
• RELEASE
• TO TEST FLIGHT
CODE
PLAN
BUILD
TEST
DEPLOY
RELEASE
OPERATE
FEEDBACK
Continuous
Integration
Feedback
Cycle

17. Change in technology and business
is the order of the day.
Embrace change
or be safe, and sorry.
SRIRAM NARAYAN
Agile IT Organization Design