Mission Possible – Story of a Successful SAFe Transformation Journey

Presentation of the Deutsche Telekom SAFe Transformation at the 2021 global SAFe Summit

Transformation learnings:

Understanding and cognition - You won't know the answers at the start

Relativity - In larger enterprises, no speed fits all

Learn the process - you can’t transform SAFely unless you know how

It’s a complex and unique universe – things don’t fit together by chance.

Mindset and culture: agile behavior doesn’t just happen

Key Recommendations:

Create alignment, otherwise, “Resilofication” will occur!

No Value-Stream, no Agility - focus on E2E or there won’t be smooth flow

Where the inertia is the highest, so is the gravity - look beyond the obvious

Mirage – You might call it SAFe but it doesn’t mean that it is SAFe

Beware of quick fixes: linear solutions don’t solve dynamically complex problems