Leading SAFe® 6.0 Infographic—An In-Depth Guide To Become SAFe® Agilist

Most of the organizations start their Agile journey with a small team. Once they get success with the methodology that they are implementing in the organization, the need for scaling to the larger organization becomes quite evident. The Scaled Agile Framework is the widely used framework for addressing the scaling challenges at the enterprise level. 

SAFe®️ not only provides the practical guidance but also encourages the Lean-Agile Mindset leaders to implement a comprehensive set of values and principles to aid the organizational changes. In the case of organizational transition, it is difficult to adopt new things at a glance. Team members should have in-depth knowledge of SAFe®️ practices, leadership style, and culture. Firstly, let’s see what is Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®️).

What is SAFe®️?

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®️), is an organization-scale development methodology, developed by Scaled Agile, Inc. SAFe®️ guides enterprises in scaling lean and agile practices to the larger organizations. Also, it helps enterprises to develop and deliver the product faster. SAFe®️ incorporates fast delivery, a collaboration between the team members, and alignment for several Agile teams. Also, SAFe®️ yields quality, productivity, employee engagement, customer satisfaction, time-to-market, improved business agility, and more.  

What is new in SAFe®️ 4.6?

Scaled Agile Inc., a certifying body of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®️) recently announced the latest version of SAFe®️, SAFe®️ 4.6 with the help of the whole Scaled Agile team and SAFe®️ Contributors. The SAFe®️ 4.6 version has underlined the introduction of ‘Five Core Competencies’ of the Lean Enterprise. The purpose behind incorporating those competencies is mainly to make the SAFe®️ organizations build a truly Lean Enterprise in a Lean way. 

Here are the names of the five core competencies introduced newly:

1. Lean-Agile Leadership

This competency explains how Lean-Agile leaders can drive organizational change by positively influencing the individuals in the team to reach their highest potential.

2.Team and Technical Agility

The Team and Technical Agility competency explain the required critical skills and Lean-Agile principles and practices to produce the high-performing teams.

3. DevOps and Release on Demand

This competency explains how the DevOps principles and practices allow the enterprises to deliver value (completely or partially) any time to meet the customers’ needs.

4. Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering

This competency focuses on how enterprises can develop large and complex solutions and cyber-physical systems using a Lean-Agile flow-based, value delivery-model. 

5. Lean Portfolio Management (LPM)

The Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) competency explains how an enterprise can implement Lean approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance for a SAFe®️ portfolio.

Benefits of Leading SAFe®️ 6.0 certification

The benefits of Leading SAFe®️ 6.0 certification to the individuals are as follows:

Recognition and Verification: 

The SAFe® framework is the most widely used framework for scaling Agile in the organizations, creating the value of the SAFe®️ certification. Also, over 70% of the US Fortune 100 companies have started using SAFe®, resulting in the increased demand for SAFe®️ certified professionals at an exponential rate. SAFe®️ 4.6 certification demonstrate your ability to work within a SAFe®️ environment. 

Future opportunities for career advancements:

SAFe®  Certification creates plenty of opportunities for professionals in case they want to grow their role at the current company or they are looking for new career opportunities. This certification is proof that an individual holds the required skill-set to scale Agile at the organization level.   

Simplify certification across the larger groups:

If the organizations want to certify their employees in case they are planning to scale Agile in their organization, Scaled Agile, Inc. makes it easy as it offers simplified license management and cost savings through a single agreement for the organization.    

Membership in SAFe®️ community:

 Once you achieve SAFe®️ certification, it opens your membership in the SAFe®️ Community Platform. This not only facilitates in managing the candidate’s credential but provides access to the plenty of resources like professional development for keeping their SAFe®️ knowledge up-to-date and SAFe®️ Communities of Practice (CoPs).

Get access to digital badges:

SAFe®️ certified professionals earn the add-on benefit of a digital badge. Digital badge help individuals to easily share and display their achievements in the form of email signatures, digital resumes, and social networks. This helps them gain visibility in today’s ever-evolving digital marketplace.

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