Partnership with ERNI

Press Release, February 12^th 2019

Zurich, Switzerland. – PEDCO announces a partnership with ERNI (https://www.betterask.erni/).

PEDCO and ERNI will work together in fostering the growing numbers of Applied SAFe® customers; where PEDCO delivers its own product Applied SAFe® and ERNI with its 25 years of experience in Swiss Software Engineering delivers consulting, technology, delivery, and agile coaching in order to bring the Scaled Agile Framework to life for Applied SAFe® customers.

ERNI stands for Swiss Software Engineering to boost people and businesses in the innovation of software-based products and services on a global platform. ERNI clients profit from method-based consulting services, partnership-oriented technology, and cost-conscious delivery services. Since the foundation in Switzerland in 1994, sharing know-how to establish collective skills and focusing on economically sound engineering solutions played a key role and are the basis for successful software projects. Today, the ERNI Group has more than 800 employees at 15 locations in 7 countries and continues to grow.

ERNI helps their clients on implementing agile development on team and teams of teams level. The clients are ranging from software delivery organisations to multi-disciplinary teams creating complex cyber-physical products. The ERNI SAFe® Program Consultants (SPC) are also trained to use and coach Applied SAFe®.

Organisations going SAFe® often lack the ability to implement SAFe® as it is described and freely available. With Applied SAFe® these companies can create their version of SAFe® which makes the implementation much smoother. Additionally, with Applied SAFe® it can be shown that all regulatory requirements can be met. This also enables industries in regulated environments to go SAFe®.

This collaboration supports our commitment to foster scaled agility on an enterprise level, especially for companies working in a regulated environment. Applied SAFe is our fully-fledged implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as a process model. Applied SAFe is based on and kept in sync with the actual SAFe version by Scaled Agile Inc. (SAI). Our product is officially approved by Scaled Agile Inc, the inventors of the Scaled Agile Framework. Implemented as a comprehensive, executable process model it includes all roles, activities, templates, guidelines, milestones, and phases 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.

For further information or requesting an online web-presentation please visit our website on www.appliedSAFe.com or get in contact with us on appliedSAFe@pedco.eu.

“It’s great to partner with ERNI as a Swiss-based international consulting company. It’s such a pleasure to work with them, even more, because we have known each other for almost 20 years. Because of this, I really know what great work they are able to deliver. ERNI showed a great partner commitment from the beginning by sending 10 highly qualified agile consultants into the Applied SAFe Quality Manager training, and now they are certified. I am really looking forward to fostering this partnership.”

Peter Pedross, CEO, PEDCO

About PEDCO

PEDCO – Managed Process Services is a public limited company based in Zurich, Switzerland and collaboration partner of Scaled Agile Inc., Boulder (USA) and Method Park, Erlangen (Germany). We support enterprises around the globe for process implementations within regulatory environments. We offer a comprehensive range of solutions to set-up, select, operate, and develop lean, compliant and efficient processes.

Our mission is to help system and software-dependent enterprises achieve better business outcomes, increase employee engagement, and improve economics through the application of Lean-Agile principles and practices with Applied SAFe® based on the Scaled Agile Framework^® (SAFe^®).

Applied SAFe^® is a stand-alone product from PEDCO. It is a fully fledged ALM tool agnostic implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe^®) as a process model and kept in sync with the actual SAFe^® version by Scaled Agile Inc. (SAI). Together with our partners, we ensure a smooth transition to agile, lean, efficient and compliant processes with Applied SAFe.