Organizations often start as agile, customer-centered teams, where a few people manage all tasks to drive growth. But as they scale, agility often fades, giving way to functional silos—Marketing, Sales, HR, IT, DevOps—each with its own hierarchy, processes, and priorities.
While these structures provide stability, they limit continuous value delivery.
Functional silos introduce:
◾ Handoffs and Dependencies: Increased handoffs slow down delivery.
◾ Transparency Gaps: Fragmented workflows obscure the full value stream from concept to delivery, tasks dependencies and progress on those tasks are not visible to all relevant stakeholders.
◾ Misalignment: Without regular cadence-based company-wide alignment on vision, priorities, and goals, silos struggle to unify efforts.
◾ Delays in Customer Value: Each handoff and dependency delays the pace of delivering value to customers.
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is designed to address these challenges.
SAFe provides the values, competencies description, principles, practices, and tools that help create a customer-centric, agile operating model, rebuilding the entrepreneurial network that drives continuous value.
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This approach implements a dual operating system: maintaining the existing hierarchy for stability while creating a virtual, value-driven network of cross-functional, self-organizing teams that can quickly deliver increments of customer value. This second network includes all necessary functions—not just IT—working together to deliver value effectively.
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For organizations seeking to improve operational efficiency, overcome the limitations of siloed processes, and build a robust system for continuous customer value delivery, contact us.
As certified SAFe Program Consultants (SPC), our team can help design and implement a SAFe framework tailored to meet organizational needs.
We support the launch of Agile Release Trains (ARTs), optimize value streams, and train teams and leaders to create a responsive, customer-focused system that drives growth and agility.
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