• With Applied SAFe, we support competitive enterprises in the efficient and successful implementation of the SAFe®
  • As system integrators, we integrated both framework and process management platform into our product
  • Applied SAFe works for organizations in highly complex, highly compliant and auditable  environments such as Automotive, Defense, Aerospace, Medical and Finance
  • Applied SAFe creates a dynamic where you can author your entire process and instantiate to your community to ensure that you have the best and most compliant process for your organization

Applied SAFe®

Applied SAFe® is a fully fledged implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) as an executable process model. It serves as your own customizable instance of SAFe®, the defacto standard to bring agility at scale. Applied SAFe® is implemented as a comprehensive, executable process model. It includes all roles, activities, templates, guidelines, milestones, and phases as defined by the SAFe® methodology in order to bring the framework to life, including metrics and tailoring. Applied SAFe® is a „ready to go with“ implementation and allows organizations to start using the framework immediately within the SAFe® framework.

Building cyber-physical systems is a complex thing and is becoming increasingly software reliant, there is a growing demand for best practices to address conceptual and process incompatibilities between systems and software. SAFe bridges that gap, and does so in a way that is more modular, scalable, and adaptable than prior versions.

With Applied SAFe you have both the power and capability to support the growth of your process – from teams to enterprise – simple to complex – Applied SAFe has the tools, options and support to achieve the enterprise goals and outcomes all while staying compliant with the organizations internal, external and regulated requirements.

APPLIED SAFE VALUE PROPOSITION:

Our software, APPLIED SAFe®, is the only tool that helps tracking & design your processes, making sure that they adhere to regulations while still doing SAFe®.

IMPLEMENT SAFe® FAST AND PRECISE
  • Reduce cost of delay by 2 years
    Start fast & minimize cost of delay by immediately adopting reliable and compliant processes.
  • Save 20 person years definition work by using Applied SAFe and don’t re-invent the wheel.
    Spare the obvious and concentrate on the real challenges faced in your company-
  • Build on a full and crystal clear SAFe® implementation with precise definitions for work products, processes and its activities, roles (incl. RASIC), metrics, milestones, phases, and guidelines.
CUSTOMIZE AND EXTEND SAFE®
  • Use prebuilt tailoring to execute specifically customized processes, reflecting exact needs and flow within compliance boundaries to achieve the highest efficiency and compliance
  • Stay in sync with the latest development of SAFe by using Applied SAFe’s seamless upgrade capability to all major versions of the Scaled Agile Framework.
  • Decide individually when to update to newest versions, on each instantiated endeavor and reduce unnecessary and in-appropriate process updates for teams.
DEVELOP COMPLIANT  & LEAN
  • Relieve teams from the burden of compliance topics by giving them concrete, compliant processes
  • Ensure compliance with reference models like CMMI, A-SPICE, IEC 62304, CTR-180 (FDA), or use your own or specific reference models
  • Save need to write hand-written and error prone development cases in order to describe the differences between your organizational process and endeavor specific process.
  • Let individual Teams, Programs, Large Solutions, Portfolio and even Enterprise focus on the needed work and reduce waste due to misunderstood process adherence; control and steer by using existing metrics
LEARN, INNOVATE AND IMPROVE RELENTLESS
  • Allow your company to learn as a system by using defined processes for organizational learning
  • Improve and optimize continuously with built-in enterprise capabilities
  • Benefit from proven best practices and learn mutually from other leading enterprises in the industry
  • Ensure that knowledge doesn’t get lost and inspire people to question the status quo
  • Optimize coaching efforts by concentrating on role specific needed knowledge and practices
  • Let people excel in their role as soon as possible and avoid knowledge drain in advance

PRODUCT DETAILS OF APPLIED SAFE®

Our software, APPLIED SAFe®, is the only tool that helps tracking & design your processes, making sure that you can adhere to regulations while still doing SAFe®.

  • FEATURES:

    • A process is a logical sequence of related activities to create a performance or a transformation of a work product
    • Phases  divide the process into time sequences
    • Work Product Models are grouped in packages. Applied SAFe® provides for each package on each level an overview of the work products and their direct relations
    • Work Products are the work results of the process and its activities and the most important element of the process
    • Roles are process-actor with assigned responsibilities, skills and knowledge to perform the process activities defined in a role description
    • Activities are manual or semi-automated work step to create a performance or a transformation of a work product
    • Practices describe how something can be done, in contrast to activities within processes which tell you what has to be done
    • Tailoring is possible on several levels

  • TAILORING CONCEPT – ASSISTED PROCESS TAILORING

    • Coordinate the Program Backlogs of several ART‘s for a Value Stream on Portfolio
    • ART‘s to run their own Program Epic KANBAN
    • Set up a portfolio and its sub-instances either in a 3-Level or 4-Level SAFe® configuration

  • APPROVED BY Scaled Agile Inc.

    • Each new version of Applied SAFe® is officially approved by the inventor of the Scaled Agile Framework

COMPLIANCE

  • ESTABLISH COMPLIANCE WITH MINIMAL EFFORT

    • We created mappings from Applied SAFe® to various reference models like CMMI, Automotive SPICE 3.0, IEC 62304, CTR-180 (FDA) and others
    • Applied SAFe® can further include and ensure compliance with other Reference Models like HIPPA or your own company-specific references models

  • COMPLIANCE CONCEPT – IMPLEMENTATION IN APPLIED SAFE®

    • Process models can be assigned to several reference models
    • Reference and process models can define specific public or local scopes E.g. Scope Software Dev
    • Process elements are then assigned to reference elements and rated on how much they fulfill the reference element
    • Fulfilling of a scope or a complete reference model is calculated in a rating
    • A company-wide analysis of fulfilling of all instances of a portfolio, value stream, program or team can be calculated automatically

LEARN, INNOVATE AND IMPROVE

Most regulatory requirements request to establish Learn, Innovate and Improve.

Applied SAFe® comes with a built-in agile organizational learning system. We have pre-built the needed processes so that a company can learn as a system and not as individuals.

  • BUILT IN ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING PROCESSES

    • Use defined metrics and proven best practices, so that you can benefit from the first day on
    • Ensure, that feedback cycles and improvements from the various levels are taken into account and lead to a structured improvement of PAL

  • EASY ACCESS TO GIVE AND GET FEEDBACK FOR ALL

    • Members of Teams, Programs, Value Streams, Portfolio and Enterprise can add annotations to every processing element of Applied SAFe® at any given time

  • PERFORM EXPERIENCED LEARNING FROM THE APPLIED SAFE® COMMUNITY

    • Applied SAFe® offers for free to incorporate customers best practices into Applied SAFE®. This has the advantage that all customers will benefit from the added knowledge in the community
    • Practices will be anonymized to be helpful for all users of Applied SAFe®

  • APPLIED SAFE® ARCHITECTURE AND IMPLEMENTATION

    • The process model is implemented in a way that you can instantiate independently on each level, portfolio, value stream, program, and team.
    • Applied SAFe® is capable of making use of various life cycle models. As proposed by SAFe®, teams can run with Scrum, Kanban or a combination of both as an agile method. Additionally, it is possible to coexist with other life cycles and to synchronize via the Agile Release Train. Teams can choose their life cycle depending on their needs and their agile readiness
APPLIED SAFE®

PRODUCTS VARIATION

  • Applied SAFe can be bought in different configurations, fitting the various needs of medium and large companies.

  • You can start with the simplest configuration „Essential“, and then upgrade your package afterward, increasing the number of licenses and type of configurations as more employees join the SAFe journey.

Please find out more about Applied SAFe product variations here: