I see three things I feel as strong advantages within Safe (ScaledAgileFramework):
1. OPERATIONAL (Scrum/Agile): The fact that we find and synchronize a chain of systems that provides support for at least one value stream.
- Develop solutions in cooperation across the systems with common pace and goal, as well as create a sustainable flow of new solutions
- Create predictability through transparency towards customer/market
2. TACTICAL (Beyond Budgeting): We can curb budgeting hysteria in favour of focusing on the task
- Remove the evil elements of reporting for reporting purposes alone and thus harness the fear that these structures nourish
- Properly managed, capitalise on the predictability instead of URGE for cost follow-ups that do not create value for the customer
3. STRATEGIC (Respect for people and cultures):
- Train and work for an agile leadership that embraces the agile values and to act accordingly:
- Manage change,
- have a lifelong learning,
- develop staff,
- inspire through vision and eliminate unnecessary procedures and policies,
- decentralize decisions
- and unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
- Establish Product Ownership with quorum, i.e. add product owners with a mandate to establish and prioritize content of development
- Establish close and fruitful relations based on trust and respect with suppliers (expose supplier to competition only when absolutely necessary)