Essence and SAFe - Pieces of the Puzzle?

SAFe is the most successful Agile engineering management framework ever created: more than one million professionals and 20,000 enterprises worldwide trust SAFe. Furthermore, 70% of Fortune 100 companies and a growing number of Global 200 have certified SAFe professionals and consultants on site.

But historically, all successful frameworks end up being thrown out and companies start over again with a new generation of frameworks. In the 1970s it was JSP (Jackson Structured Programming), in the 1980s we loved SADT (Structured Analysis and Design Technique), in the 1990s it was RUP (Rational Unified Process), in the 2000s it was CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration), and in the 2010’s we loved SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) - and still do!

Over the last decade, SAFe has amassed a huge body of knowledge around how to manage Lean/Agile Development at scale but as the body of knowledge grows bigger, organisations attempt to do absolutely everything rather than focus on the essentials, and end up doing it badly. The fate of past frameworks is that they’ve grown to the point where there is too much to comprehend and they’ve imploded; valuable knowledge is lost and has to be re-learnt by subsequent frameworks.

The industry has a responsibility to the people within it, people that have invested their time and effort in learning a methodology, to make sure that the knowledge they’ve acquired doesn't become waste.

Essence provides a formal but lightweight language for describing processes to allow them to combine to create frameworks. Its focus on describing the individual practices promotes reuse, the knowledge need never become waste even if the framework evolves or new frameworks appear. Its visual representation on playing cards promotes interactive learning and encourages use beyond the classroom when process is being used.

SAFe and Essence are not competitors, they are complimentary, and this webinar explores how Essence can improve people's understanding of SAFe and their learning experience.

Featuring:
Ivar Jacobson: Founder, Chairman and CEO of IJI
Brian Tucker: Principal Consultant, SAFe Fellow, SPCT
Keith de Mendonca: Principal Consultant, SPCT

AGENDA
18:00-18:05: Joining the call and settling in
18:05-18:10: Introductions
18:10-19:15: The Talk + Q&A

IMPORTANT NOTES

• I will begin admitting people into the call at 18:00.
  Before that, you will be on a waitlist to enter
• Please ensure you're muted at all times to minimise disturbance.
• If you would like to ask a question during the talk, use the Chat system.

You can find the recording of this event and all other Essence for Agility events on this LinkedIn article: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/essence-agility-ivar-jacobson-1e/