The seven core competencies of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) are:

• Organisational Agility
• Lean Portfolio Management
• Enterprise Solution Delivery
• Agile Product Delivery
• Team and Technical Agility
• Continuous Learning Culture
• Lean-Agile Leadership

Organisational Agility

An agile organisation can be responsive to shifting market conditions, customer feedback, or pressure from competitors, among other things. To be fully responsive, the enterprise must live and breathe the Lean-Agile mindset, culture, values, and principles. Business agility helps companies view change as opportunities rather than threats.

Lean Portfolio Management

Each SAFe portfolio manages a set of value streams for a specific business area. The Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) competency describes how organisations can implement lean approaches for strategy & investment funding, portfolio operations and governance.

This competency requires abandoning many traditional approaches to investment funding, portfolio operations and governance and adopting new ones by funding value streams, continuous governance and lean portfolio operations.

Enterprise Solution Delivery

Enterprise solutions delivery is based on more advanced Lean systems. It offers a more flexible approach to systems’ development, deployment, and operation, coordinating and achieving uninterrupted flow between teams and suppliers.

Agile Product Delivery

The ability to deliver high-quality, value-driven products and solutions using Agile practices, including applying Lean and Agile principles and practices to product development and delivery.

Team and Technical Agility

Cross-functional Agile teams who have the skills needed to set and achieve goals. Teams can use several approaches to solving a problem and work as XP, Scrum or Kanban teams. This produces high-performing teams that learn and grow together, delivering better business value. Technical Agility describes the engineering practices teams need to build reliable and scalable software systems.

Lean-Agile Leadership

The ability to lead by example through behaviours, actions, and words facilitates the adoption of SAFe within an organisation, including aligning teams and individuals with the organisation’s goals and vision.

Conclusion

These seven core competencies are essential for individuals and organisations looking to adopt and implement the SAFe framework successfully. They provide the necessary knowledge, skills, and mindset to lead and facilitate the adoption of SAFe, manage and optimise the portfolio of value streams and initiatives, deliver high-quality, value-driven products and solutions, and continuously improve and evolve the organisation’s approach to Lean and Agile.

Of all the Scaled Agile certified courses, the Leading SAFe (SA) course covers these competencies more deeply.

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As deeply experienced agile coaches and practitioners, our team is invested in continuous learning through each client engagement. We use the data and evidence we gather from each implementation to inform our training, coaching, and consulting services.

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