Partnership with SoCraAgile

Press Release, March 26^th 2019

Zurich, Switzerland. – PEDCO announces a partnership with SoCraAgile (https://socraagile.com/)

SoCraAgile have been already very active with SAFe Training and coaching in Swiss Romand, the west part of Switzerland. With this new partnership, PEDCO will work together with SoCraAgile in fostering the growing numbers of SAFe® customers; where PEDCO delivers trainings and its own product Applied SAFe®, a process tool that favors a faster SAFe® adoption inside a company, and SoCraAgile brings a French-speaking touch with more than twenty years of international experiences in technical excellence, agile lean coaching and business organization changes, in order to allow PEDCO to sell SAFe® training courses throughout Switzerland and have an Applied SAFe® partner in the French region of Switzerland.

SoCraAgile is a Swiss start-up that stands for the promotion of agility and technical excellence in the business and software development contexts, based on coaching, mentoring and consulting. They believe in the association of Agile, Lean, Craftsmanship and DevOps. This applies to a whole organization, as information technology, business, human resources, marketing, and other services are part of the entire organization success.

This collaboration supports our commitment to foster scaled agility on an enterprise level, especially for companies working in a regulated environment. Implemented as a comprehensive, executable process model, Applied SAFe includes all roles, activities, templates, guidelines, milestones, and phases in order to bring the framework to life; including metrics and tailoring.

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.

“We are pleased to partner with PEDCO, we have established a win-win agreement based on fair revenue sharing. We can use the Applied SAFe product to promote agility among our customers and at the same time reinforce PEDCO’s image. Thanks to PEDCO’s direct access to the SAFe training agenda, where companies plan their next SAFe training, SoCraAgile can gain visibility in the market.”

Alexandre Cuva, Founder, SoCraAgile

“We are proud and excited to find a partner like SoCraAgile to collaborate with! With this collaboration, we are able to support the French-speaking customers of Applied SAFe and broaden our reach while building strong relationships globally. SoCraAgile is located in the French region of Switzerland and specialized in coaching, mentoring and consulting. We are excited for them to start doing SAFe trainings in various languages including French ”

Peter Pedross, CEO, PEDCO

About PEDCO AG

PEDCO AG is a public limited company based in Zurich, Switzerland and a 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.