SAFe Program Consultant in Agile Methodology
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Along with agile implementation, SAFe is also becoming more popular and is
adopted by various organizations small, medium, and large. SAFe is becoming a leader
of frameworks in an organization as it helps them in scaling agile practices and
principles. As SAFe
training is required for the entire team, even its very basic configuration
requires a large investment of cost and time. With available cost and time
implementing SAFe
in an organization is a challenging task. Agile also includes collaboration, delivery, and
alignment among different teams including that SAFe provides flexibility and evolving frameworks
that meet incremental milestones. This critical role of implementing SAFe all over the teams
and organization is carried out by the persons who can handle pressure and a lot
of responsibilities at once. The individuals handling this immense pressure and
responsibilities are called SAFe
Program Consultants (SPC).
They are the agents who combine various
roles and their technical knowledge with an essential motivation for improving an
organization's software and development process systems. SPCs can be anyone
who’s already working in agile
in different roles such as business or technology leaders, product managers,
program managers, analysts, consultants, process leads, or architects.
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There are many faces an SPC has to be
responsible for some of them are
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Mentor
·
Coach
·
Guide
·
Trainer
·
Facilitator
Even though these roles may seem similar
to anyone but they all have very different and divert responsibilities than the
other. Every role mentioned above is important in the implementation of SAFe.
In performing the role sufficiently and
satisfactorily basic coalition is required which is as
·
Leaders who can show
way, set vision, and remove obstacles
·
A practitioner, change
agent, or manager who can implement specific process change
·
Taking seriously the organizational
credibility
·
Experts are required to
take intelligent and quicker decisions
When we observe in deeper the SPC have
lots of responsibilities as they play various roles in the implementation of SAFe in an organization
some of the most important responsibilities they carry are;
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They help in communicating
the vision for change, business needs, and urgencies
·
They help managers, leaders, and
stakeholders with the socialization of new concepts, overview training, and
orientation. They lead the organization in creating digital age leaders and
facilitation modules.
·
They play an important
role in establishing metrics, rollout plans, and communicating further changes
·
SPC helps in building
and executing the transformation backlog for assisting lean-agile center of
excellence
·
SPCs identify the
development and operational value streams and Arts which are most opportunistic
for launching that helps stakeholders to understand the flow of value.
·
They help in the
preparation, access, and evolution of ART launch and backlog readiness. They
train the role of agile
teams, product owners,
scrum masters,
release train engineers, and product managers.
·
SPCs help trains the agile teams, at initial
but critical levels like inspection and adaptation, program increment planning,
and establishing dates for ART launch, events, and calendars for ARTs.
·
To maintain roadmaps,
vision, and product
backlog SPC’s also train leaders and executives. They guide shifting
from project to product including customer centricity, design thinking, scrum of scrums, system
demos, and follow-up of improving items.
·
They help teams in
developing a DevOps culture and mindset, establishing agile practices, infrastructure, and a continuous
delivery pipeline.
·
Further, they also
guide the implementation of agile practices at a portfolio level and
communicate strategic theme value.
·
For supporting the new
organizational value stream, expand LACE reach, and start ARTs SPC involve more
new agile change
agent.
·
SPCs use their mastery
of seven competencies and execution of business agility for organizational
growth making the organization aware of where they stand and developing an action
plan for achieving agility in all 21 dimensions across SAFe competencies.
But for SAFe organizations, many have doubts about how
many SPCs should they have. The answer to this confusion is not guided in the SAFe.
But not anyone alone can achieve all the required for implementation. This
shows us that many of the SPCs are required across emerging lean-agile businesses. In
almost approximately 3-5 per 100 practitioners driving and sustaining the
implementation is required.
With help of SPC’s certification lean
agile individuals are trained to acquire these skills and tools for executing
their responsibilities. Teach and coach others to implement and support the agile change.
About Advance Agility
We, at Advance Agility, are the new-age Agile Coaching, Consulting and IT services company. We enable end-to-end Digital Transformation. Agile execution is integral to our being. We are doing SAFe implementation with small, medium and large organization across the globe. Our vision is to be the leading Agile execution player globally. To keep adding value at every process stage. We are on a mission to empower our clients, move from concept to cash in the shortest sustainable lead time by adopting human centric approach to business agility. Embracing the change is in our DNA. Things that keep us apart are Quicker and Seamless execution with End-to-end gamut of services. Our Global presence and Stellar Track Record give us an edge over our competitor.
Connect with us at advanceagility.com to learn about SAFe and SAFe Implementation. We provide various SAFe certification courses along with DevOps, Scrum, Agile Coaching and more trainings. Write to us at contact@advanceagilty.com for any agile training or consulting needs. We are always looking for competent agile trainers as well. So if you are a good trainer or want to become one, do get in touch with us to that we can learn, grow and achieve together.
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