Sustainable SAFe®

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

From Value Streams to Profit Streams

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

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

Sustainable SAFe focuses on the unique relationship between your value streams, your solutions, and profit.

A Profit Stream is a value stream designed to create a sustainable business. Profit Streams quantify the economic value of the solutions they create and ensure the revenue generated from these solutions exceed the costs required to serve customers. Not just once, but throughout the entire solution lifecycle.

Talk to a SAFe Fellow

SAFe 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 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.

Talk to a SAFe Fellow

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.

Talk to a Safe Fellow

Reinvigorate SAFe

Adoption of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an exciting business initiative that generates a burst of innovation and a variety of improvements. Sustaining SAFe over the solution lifecycle can be hard because there is more involved in the skillful execution of SAFe than simply forming teams and engaging in PI Planning.

We help you achieve the benefits of SAFe by reinvigorating your SAFe implementation so you can maximize the return on your investment. From conducting a SAFe Health Check to introducing new frameworks that complement and supplement SAFe, we work with your leaders, LACE, Agile Release Trains, and portfolios to keep your profits flowing.

Learn More

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.

Talk to a SAFe Fellow

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.

Talk to a SAFe Fellow

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.

Top 10 U.S. Bank

SAFe 6.0 Training

Applied Frameworks’ trainers are lifelong learners with real-world chops. Our classes use engaging discussions, stories, and examples to foster the 'AHA!' moment of learning, and hands-on activities lock in the insight. We customize the learning experience through a Lean Coffee, often with guest SPCs, SPCT Candidates, and SPCTs, who provide a variety of perspectives and examples while answering the most pressing questions.

View Upcoming SAFe Training Courses

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

SAFe Splash

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

View Splash

Webinars