SAFe Assessments

Organizational Agility

by SAFe

The Organizational Agility competency describes how Lean-thinking people and Agile teams optimize their business processes, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on new opportunities.

Dean Leffingwell

Cofounder and Chief Methodologist,
Scaled Agile Inc

Assessments

The SAFe Business Agility Assessment helps enterprises measure their overall progress
          towards the goal of business agility. It provides a high-level summary of proficiency
          across all of SAFe’s seven core competencies.<br><br>

          This updated version of the Business Agility Assessment has reduced the number of
          assessment statements, simplified their construction, and removed SAFe-specific
          terminology. These changes make it more accessible and easier to understand. We
          recommend moving to this updated version of the Business Agility Assessment.

Business Agility

The SAFe Business Agility Assessment helps enterprises measure their overall progress towards the goal of business agility. It provides a high-level summary of proficiency across all of SAFe’s seven core competencies.

This updated version of the Business Agility Assessment has reduced the number of assessment statements, simplified their construction, and removed SAFe-specific terminology. These changes make it more accessible and easier to understand. We recommend moving to this updated version of the Business Agility Assessment.

The Lean Portfolio Management competency aligns strategy and execution by applying
          Lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile
          portfolio operations, and governance.<br><br>

          It is one of SAFe’s seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is
          essential to achieving Business Agility. The Lean Portfolio Management Assessment
          enables the enterprise to assess their proficiency in this core competency.

Lean Portfolio Management

The Lean Portfolio Management competency aligns strategy and execution by applying Lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance.

It is one of SAFe’s seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is essential to achieving Business Agility. The Lean Portfolio Management Assessment enables the enterprise to assess their proficiency in this core competency.

The Enterprise Solution Delivery competency describes how to apply Lean-Agile
          principles and practices to the specification, development, deployment, operation, and
          evolution of the world’s largest and most sophisticated software applications, networks,
          and cyber-physical systems.<br><br>
          It is one of SAFe’s seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is
          essential to achieving Business Agility. The Enterprise Solution Delivery Assessment
          enables the enterprise to assess their proficiency in this core competency.

Enterprise Solution Delivery Assessment

The Enterprise Solution Delivery competency describes how to apply Lean-Agile principles and practices to the specification, development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the world’s largest and most sophisticated software applications, networks, and cyber-physical systems.

It is one of SAFe’s seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is essential to achieving Business Agility. The Enterprise Solution Delivery Assessment enables the enterprise to assess their proficiency in this core competency.

Agile Product Delivery is a customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing
          a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users.<br><br>

          It is one of SAFe’s seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is
          essential to achieving Business Agility. The Agile Product Delivery Assessment enables
          the enterprise to assess their proficiency in this core competency.

Agile Product Delivery

Agile Product Delivery is a customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users.

It is one of SAFe’s seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is essential to achieving Business Agility. The Agile Product Delivery Assessment enables the enterprise to assess their proficiency in this core competency.

The Continuous Learning Culture competency describes a set of values and practices
          that encourage individuals—and the enterprise as a whole—to continually increase
          knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation. This is achieved by becoming a
          learning organization, committing to relentless improvement, and promoting a culture of
          innovation.<br><br>

          It is one of SAFe’s seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is
          essential to achieving Business Agility. The Continuous Learning Culture Assessment
          enables the enterprise to assess their proficiency in this core competency.

Continuous Learning Culture Assessment

The Continuous Learning Culture competency describes a set of values and practices that encourage individuals—and the enterprise as a whole—to continually increase knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation. This is achieved by becoming a learning organization, committing to relentless improvement, and promoting a culture of innovation.

It is one of SAFe’s seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is essential to achieving Business Agility. The Continuous Learning Culture Assessment enables the enterprise to assess their proficiency in this core competency.

The Lean-Agile Leadership competency describes how Lean-Agile Leaders drive and
          sustain organizational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals
          and teams to reach their highest potential. They do this through leading by example;
          learning and modelling SAFe’s Lean-Agile mindset, values, principles, and practices;
          and leading the change to a new way of working.<br><br>

          It is one of SAFe’s seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is
          essential to achieving Business Agility. The Lean Agile Leadership Assessment enables
          the enterprise to assess their proficiency in this core competency.

Lean-Agile Leadership Assessment

The Lean-Agile Leadership competency describes how Lean-Agile Leaders drive and sustain organizational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals and teams to reach their highest potential. They do this through leading by example; learning and modelling SAFe’s Lean-Agile mindset, values, principles, and practices; and leading the change to a new way of working.

It is one of SAFe’s seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is essential to achieving Business Agility. The Lean Agile Leadership Assessment enables the enterprise to assess their proficiency in this core competency.

The Team and Technical Agility competency describes the critical skills, and Lean-Agile
          principles and practices that high-performing Agile teams and Teams of Agile teams use
          to create high-quality solutions for their customers.<br><br>

          It is one of SAFe’s seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is
          essential to achieving Business Agility. The Team and Technical Agility Assessment
          enables the enterprise to assess their proficiency in this core competency.

Team and Technical Assessment

The Team and Technical Agility competency describes the critical skills, and Lean-Agile principles and practices that high-performing Agile teams and Teams of Agile teams use to create high-quality solutions for their customers.

It is one of SAFe’s seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is essential to achieving Business Agility. The Team and Technical Agility Assessment enables the enterprise to assess their proficiency in this core competency.

The Organizational Agility competency describes how Lean-thinking people and Agile
          teams optimize their business processes, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new
          commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on new
          opportunities.<br><br>

          It is one of SAFe’s seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is
          essential to achieving Business Agility. The Organizational Agility Assessment enables
          the enterprise to assess their proficiency in this core competency.

Organizational Agility

The Organizational Agility competency describes how Lean-thinking people and Agile teams optimize their business processes, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on new opportunities.

It is one of SAFe’s seven core competencies of the Lean Enterprise, each of which is essential to achieving Business Agility. The Organizational Agility Assessment enables the enterprise to assess their proficiency in this core competency.


          The SAFe DevOps Assessment is a tool that helps ARTs and Solution Trains optimize their value stream performance. It provides a holistic DevOps status by assessing the maturity of the four aspects and 16 activities of the continuous delivery pipeline.
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          The DevOps SAFe Assessment is used to measure baseline maturity at any point in a DevOps transformation and guide fast, incremental progress thereafter.

SAFe DevOps Assessment

The SAFe DevOps Assessment is a tool that helps ARTs and Solution Trains optimize their value stream performance. It provides a holistic DevOps status by assessing the maturity of the four aspects and 16 activities of the continuous delivery pipeline.

The DevOps SAFe Assessment is used to measure baseline maturity at any point in a DevOps transformation and guide fast, incremental progress thereafter.

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