Agile at Scale

How to scale agile working to the next level.

September, 2019
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Agile is the new Our Get

default approach in touch

Agile What
at scale we offer

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 Agile is the new default
way of working

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What is agile working?
A new mindset for your organization – based on common values and
principles – to achieve better outcomes.

The goal is to produce the best possible outcomes for your customers

Key success factors are

Coach your leaders to Unlock the motivation of Focus on quality and Ensure that your teams
embrace servant your knowledge workers by continuous improvement can produce value
leadership and to apply providing autonomy by optimising your continuously and
and teach the lean-agile through empowerment and organisation and its sustainably, by limiting
mindset trust as well as purpose for processes as a whole work in progress and
your teams utilising system thinking making it visible

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Why are organisations adopting Agile?
Organisations struggle to keep up and are adopting new ways of
working.

Slow speed to market Increasing competitive pressures

• Multi-year transformation and project delivery approaches • Disruption from global innovators competing in new ways,
involving big bang, waterfall and heavyweight/rigid targeting niche and lucrative segments that previously sat
governance processes, where decisions are slow and within the domain of incumbents
made by committee
• Technology is evolving rapidly, lowering the barriers to
• Organisational complexity created by traditional entry and enabling smaller players to compete at scale
component delivery models that results in functional silos,
• New opportunities requiring capabilities to innovate and
handoffs and waste
experiment in order to rapidly achieve product/market fit
• Long lead times for planning and funding impacting the
ability to quickly respond to changing customer needs

Lack of value and poor

Low employee engagement customer outcomes
• Leadership with a command and control management • Customer experience is a key competitive differentiator,
style discourages innovation, creativity and the adoption however traditional delivery methods lack customer focus
of new work practices for continuous improvement and limit the ability to generate fast feedback loops
• Hierarchical organisational models take accountability • Hierarchical organisational models reinforce bureaucracy
away from employees and create a lack of trust and a focus on processes or status, rather than customer
outcomes
• Static delivery ecosystems that are unable to adapt or
improve inevitably reduce employee engagement due to • Traditional delivery of understanding of customer needs
frustration and lack of impact/progress and demands does not take into account human centred
design thinking and customer research/insights

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 Agile at scale

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As organisations adopt Agile beyond IT and for
complex initiatives, team-level Agile is still
great—but no longer sufficient on its own.

Organisations should avoid scaling Agile as long

as possible, but once the Rubicon is reached they
should cross it swiftly with a proven framework
and experienced guides.

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When should you scale by adopting a framework?
There are different signals …

When you need a common When you have to coordinate When you want to extend Agile
approach for all teams in your solution development across beyond your IT organisation to
organisation to benefit from multiple Agile teams, especially advance towards enterprise agility
synergies and improved considering aspects like end-to-end or shift from a project to a product
collaboration as everyone speaks integration and testing approach
the same language

When you want to accelerate your When you have reached a point When – last but not least important
organisation’s Agile transformation where traditional funding processes – your organisation has to comply
and you do not have to reinvent hinder value delivery and you plan with regulation and industry
the wheel, a framework will help to transition to the funding of value standards, frameworks provide
you focus on the most challenging streams and lean budgets guidance and best practices
aspects of change

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What is SAFe?
SAFe is a mature and proven framework, providing end-to-end tools and
practices to scale Agile for programs and the enterprise.

The key layers of SAFe

SAFe can look complex at first glance Portfolio Level – Strategy Execution for the Enterprise
– but it can be distilled down to three
core layers, which enable the n
Epics
successful scaling of Agile ARTs
Portfolio Portfolio Kanban and Planning Horizons
Backlog

SAFe ensures alignment while

enabling autonomy and decentralised Program Level – Alignment and Cadence for Scrum Teams
decision-making on each layer within Agile Release Train (ART)
defined guardrails and with a common

SAFe
n Scrum Features Team A
delivery cadence Teams Program
Backlog Team B Program Increment
Team C
SAFe provides a complete toolkit for 8-12 weeks
organisations implementing Agile – Team Level – Foundation for Agile Delivery
especially for organisations where
multiple Agile teams need to work
Scrum

1 Scrum Stories
together to deliver solutions Team Sprint
Sprint Sprint Sprint Sprint …
Team
Backlog 2-3 weeks

Features ready for release

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Why do we think SAFe is right for you?
SAFe is the leading framework for the scaling of Agile and there are
good reasons for this.

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SAFe combines It is already used by Combines the SAFe comes with an Provides a
Agile, Lean and many organisations necessary theoretical implementation structured training
DevOps into a across industries, underpinning with roadmap that has program to support
holistic framework including financial tools and best been proven to the adoption of SAFe
services, technology, practices support a successful
automotive, rollout of SAFe in
aerospace, aviation organisations
and the public sector

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 Our approach

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Our way of working.
It is all about the outcome.

People centric Collaborative Incremental Accelerated Holistic

Training and Working with you Generating quick Using the SAFe Considering your
coaching for your to tailor the wins is key for any implementation context to help you
leaders and teams framework to your successful roadmap as a maximise value
specific needs transformation starting point for
faster results

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 What we offer

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Why Deloitte.
Our value proposition.

We know We know your We know We have the

Agile Industry Technology Ecosystem
Deloitte uses its Agile We have deep Deloitte is a leader in We are part of a global
expertise to help clients knowledge of your applying new network of Agile
in a wide range of industry and its unique technologies to help you practitioners and
industries to achieve challenges. transform the way you partners
better outcomes work

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We can help you scale.
From an assessment of existing Agile practices to training and coaching
and implementation consulting.

Discover Implement Sustain & Improve

We assess your current practices Our certified SAFe Program Our coaches support your leaders
and maturity across software Consultants will guide you along the and teams not only during the
engineering, product development, SAFe implementation roadmap. transition, but also during the
architecture and your organisation’s Our trainers facilitate SAFe courses sustain and improvement phase.
agility. with certifications: Once you have reached a level
We offer workshops and simulations • Leading SAFe where you want to extend your
on the new way of working from • SAFe for Teams practices, we will provide guidance
executive workshops, to value • SAFe Product Owner/Product and training e.g. when you add a
stream analysis and DevOps. Manager layer of SAFe or just want to
• SAFe Scrum Master implement Agile tooling.
• SAFe Advanced Scrum Master
• SAFe for Architects
• SAFe DevOps
• SAFe for Government
• SAFe Lean Portfolio
Management

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 Get in touch

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Ready to scale?
We’re looking forward to working with you

Patrick Laurent Georges Wantz

Partner Managing Director
Technology & Innovation Technology & Architecture
Leader gwantz@deloitte.lu
palaurent@deloitte.lu

Dr. Marc Sniukas Joachim Sammer

Director Enterprise Agile Coach
Innovation SAFe Program Consultant
msniukas@deloitte.lu jsammer@deloitte.lu

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