Sustainable Agility

Thriving in the digital world requires a way of working grounded in agility, adaptability, and resiliency. When paired with Profit Streams™, the methodologies like Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®), Scrum and Kanban can provide the guidance and flexibility to achieve sustainable profitability.

From Value Streams to Profit Streams

Digital transformation efforts lose leadership support over time because the army of consultants hired focus on development methodologies as opposed to business outcomes, often prescribing the same advice to every business.

Executives, who are the experts in their unique business, care about growth and sustainable profit and are often indifferent to development methodologies.

When the focus is on sustainable agility and the unique relationship between value streams, solutions, and profit, the investment required to improve the way solutions are built and managed is much easier to justify.

Working with Applied Frameworks

Business is an infinite game. And no matter how you’re currently playing, one thing is certain: the game is going to change, and you need to change with it.

There are no timeouts in business. There are no delays in serving your customers. Our expert coaches help you play better while you’re playing. We meet you where you are, understand your aspirations, and leverage our deep expertise in SAFe, Scrum and Kanban to craft a strategy to achieve your outcomes quickly to maximize profitability and sustainability.

By evolving value streams into Profit Streams, designing, building, and growing sustainable solutions, and optimizing portfolio performance, you'll be able to keep playing your game.

Start SAFe Flowing

Every organization makes an ongoing investment in its people and their processes. Implementing SAFe is no different: It is an investment in adopting a new way of working that has the potential to create extraordinary value.

Getting the best return on your investment requires you to get clear about the problems you intend to solve, understand your goals, develop a strategy and roadmap for your implementation, and then engage at a pace that ensures your people are fully absorbing the new way of working.

Applied Frameworks’ unique approach to helping you adopt SAFe is grounded in the Lean-Agile principles of delivering a continuous flow of value. With Applied Frameworks, you won’t be waiting a year for your SAFe implementation to deliver value. We will help you find the early wins while creating the foundation to keep winning.

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Improve your Scrum

No matter where you are in your agile journey, our tailor-made training programs are designed to meet your needs.

Benefit from world-class instructors with real-life leadership experience.
Gain practical knowledge and focus on real-world applications.
Acquire tools that can be immediately applied in your work.
Experience lesson plans and assessments that ensure comprehensive learning.
Immerse in interactive learning environments that foster engagement and collaboration.

Profitable Portfolios

Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) is the process by which the organization chooses to invest in different opportunities.

Inspired by our expertise in building and delivering solutions, our LPM practice leverages Silicon Valley investment strategies to help you make decisions that maximize profitability. Our consultants have collectively helped organizations make investment decisions for more than $5 billion in portfolio spend.

Our approach to LPM starts with an understanding of your current portfolio management process, develops a map for the changes you need to make, and implements them in a way that enhances the success you already have.

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We are SAFe Experts

The comprehensive sophistication of SAFe can feel daunting. And that’s no surprise! SAFe is designed to enable organizations to successfully tackle the world’s most challenging problems. It has to be comprehensive. It must be sophisticated.

To leverage a framework as sophisticated as SAFe, it is helpful to have a team of guides, coaches, and fellow business leaders that can coach and mentor every person in your organization, from individual members of Agile teams to executives grappling with multi-billion dollar (or Euro) investment decisions.

Applied Frameworks’ SAFe practice consists of consultants who have the deep knowledge and practical experience required to leverage SAFe for all of its gooey delicious Lean-Agile goodness.

Two of our Applied Frameworks team members, Luke Hohmann and Phil Gardiner, have earned the prestigious distinction of SAFe Fellow. This achievement recognizes individuals who have exhibited the highest level of mastery and thought leadership in the practice of SAFe. And our SAFe Fellows aren’t limited to what’s in SAFe today! They’re shaping the evolution of SAFe in collaboration with customers and Scaled Agile.

You’re the experts in your business. We’re the experts in SAFe. Together, we’ll ensure that your implementation of SAFe is truly sustainable.

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Replace Legacy Infrastructure with Hadoop - in 6 months!

Costs related to legacy data infrastructure at this multi-billion dollar bank were spiraling out of control. It became clear that a migration to a Hadoop big data solution was required. And fast. But the old data management and procurement processes would take years. The Applied Frameworks’ consulting team believed that by using the Scaled Agile framework (SAFe®) the client could get the whole job done in 6 months. And with our coaching, they did.

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SAFe 6.0 Training

Leading SAFe

Thrive in the Digital Age with Business Agility.

New to the Scaled Agile Framework®? Leading SAFe® offers you an introduction to the foundations of SAFe, and provides the principles and practices to confidently drive your Lean-Agile transformation.

Our course emphasizes SAFe principles and focuses on from Lean, systems thinking, Agile development, product development flow, and DevOps.

Schedule time to talk about a Private Course
Implementing SAFe

Become A Certified SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC).

Learn how to lead a Lean-Agile transformation by leveraging the practices and principles of the Scaled Agile Framework and the seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise.

Gain insights and practice how to coach programs, identify value streams, launch Agile Release Trains, build a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with a DevOps culture, and empower a Lean Portfolio.

Schedule time to talk about a Private Course
Lean Portfolio Management

Align strategy with execution.

Applied Frameworks has helped more enterprises make portfolio investment decisions on more than $5B in portfolio spending.

This experience guides our deliver of Lean Portfolio Management, where you will gain the practical tools and techniques (such as Participatory Budgeting) necessary to implement the Lean Portfolio Management functions of Strategy and Investment Funding, Agile Portfolio Operations and Lean Governance.

Schedule time to talk about a Private Course
Agile Product Management

Use design thinking and customer-centricity to create valuable solutions.

In the Agile Product Management (APM) course, you’ll learn how to use design thinking and customer-centricity to design, build, and evolve desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable solutions.

APM is a breathtaking course, covering such topics as market research, Solution vision and roadmaps, and ongoing Solution innovation.

Schedule time to talk about a Private Course
Release Train Engineer

Facilitate Lean-Agile Program Execution.

Facilitate and enable end-to-end value delivery through Agile Release Trains (ARTs)—and learn how to build a high-performing ART by becoming a servant leader and coach.

Schedule time to talk about a RTE Coaching
Product Owner/Product Manager

Deliver value and product execution at scale.

Effective POs and PMs are essential to high-performing Agile Teams and Agile Release Trains (ARTs).

The POPM course focuses on the more tactical aspects of these roles, covering such topics as collaborating with engineering teams and business stakeholders; how to write, decompose, and refine epics, features, and stories; and how to design, prioritize, build, test, and deliver products with increased productivity and higher quality.

Schedule time to talk about a Private Course
SAFe Scrum Master

Coach High-Performing Agile Teams.

Level up your Scrum Master / Team Coach skills and deepen your understanding of team facilitation, PI Planning support, and working effectively in a remote distributed environment.

Schedule time to talk about a Private Course
SAFe for Architects

Align product management and architecture.

In the SAFe® for Architects course, you’ll gain the knowledge needed to align architecture with business value. You’ll understand how system, solution, and enterprise architects collaboratively deliver architectural solutions.

Schedule time to talk about a Private Course

Thrive in the Digital Age with Business Agility.

New to the Scaled Agile Framework®? Leading SAFe® offers you an introduction to the foundations of SAFe, and provides the principles and practices to confidently drive your Lean-Agile transformation.

Our course emphasizes SAFe principles and focuses on from Lean, systems thinking, Agile development, product development flow, and DevOps.

Schedule time to talk about a Private Course

Become A Certified SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC).

Learn how to lead a Lean-Agile transformation by leveraging the practices and principles of the Scaled Agile Framework and the seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise.

Gain insights and practice how to coach programs, identify value streams, launch Agile Release Trains, build a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with a DevOps culture, and empower a Lean Portfolio.

Schedule time to talk about a Private Course

Align strategy with execution.

Applied Frameworks has helped more enterprises make portfolio investment decisions on more than $5B in portfolio spending.

This experience guides our deliver of Lean Portfolio Management, where you will gain the practical tools and techniques (such as Participatory Budgeting) necessary to implement the Lean Portfolio Management functions of Strategy and Investment Funding, Agile Portfolio Operations and Lean Governance.

Schedule time to talk about a Private Course

Use design thinking and customer-centricity to create valuable solutions.

In the Agile Product Management (APM) course, you’ll learn how to use design thinking and customer-centricity to design, build, and evolve desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable solutions.

APM is a breathtaking course, covering such topics as market research, Solution vision and roadmaps, and ongoing Solution innovation.

Schedule time to talk about a Private Course

Facilitate Lean-Agile Program Execution.

Facilitate and enable end-to-end value delivery through Agile Release Trains (ARTs)—and learn how to build a high-performing ART by becoming a servant leader and coach.

Schedule time to talk about a RTE Coaching

Deliver value and product execution at scale.

Effective POs and PMs are essential to high-performing Agile Teams and Agile Release Trains (ARTs).

The POPM course focuses on the more tactical aspects of these roles, covering such topics as collaborating with engineering teams and business stakeholders; how to write, decompose, and refine epics, features, and stories; and how to design, prioritize, build, test, and deliver products with increased productivity and higher quality.

Schedule time to talk about a Private Course

Coach High-Performing Agile Teams.

Level up your Scrum Master / Team Coach skills and deepen your understanding of team facilitation, PI Planning support, and working effectively in a remote distributed environment.

Schedule time to talk about a Private Course

Align product management and architecture.

In the SAFe® for Architects course, you’ll gain the knowledge needed to align architecture with business value. You’ll understand how system, solution, and enterprise architects collaboratively deliver architectural solutions.

Schedule time to talk about a Private Course

SAFe Splash

Access webinars, blogs, tools, and more to learn more about sustainable SAFe.

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Webinars

Sustainable SAFe - What is Sustainable SAFe?

Process

Five Things I love about SAFe® 6.0

Webinars

The Key to Sustainable Success with SAFe®

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A SAFe Transformation is never truly complete. We partner with you to meet you where you are. Schedule a meeting today.

Introducing Horizon

What is Solution Profitability Management?

What is a Profit Stream?

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Sustainable Agility

From Value Streams to Profit Streams

Working with Applied Frameworks

Start SAFe Flowing

Improve your Scrum

Profitable Portfolios

We are SAFe Experts

Replace Legacy Infrastructure with Hadoop - in 6 months!