Product Development Flow

SAFe Assessments

The SAFe Product Development Flow (PDF) Assessment empowers organizations to evaluate their proficiency in delivering continuous, high-value product flow tailored to customer needs.

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Accelerating Product Flow

Organizing Teams and ARTs Around Value

Inspiring with Product Vision

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The SAFe Product Development Flow (PDF) Assessment

Each assessment below describes a set of knowledge, skills, and techniques required to achieve mastery in an area of Product Development Flow. They provide the necessary information, learning resources, and practical application guidance needed to support success. These competencies represent the most up-to-date understanding of the Product Development Flow Discipline. As new ways of working emerge, the competencies will evolve over time.

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Accelerating Product Flow

We are losing our competitive edge due to delays in delivering timely products and services that address customer needs.

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Organizing Teams and ARTs Around Value

We struggle to organize our workforce effectively around our products to optimize speed and agility.

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Inspiring with Product Vision

Teams lack alignment, which often results in wasteful feature development, duplicated effort, and failure to meet customer needs.

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Creating Responsive Roadmaps

Our product and roadmaps are poorly prioritized, inflexible, and quickly become out of date, making it difficult to adapt to changes.

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Designing Great Products

We do not prioritize product design, which leads to poor market reception, low adoption, and decreased customer satisfaction.

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Creating an Innovation Culture

Our organization does not make time and space for innovation, leading to outdated products and services.

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Sustainable Product Development

We lack clarity on developing products that are economically viable and environmentally and socially responsible throughout their lifecycle.

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Harnessing Customer Feedback

We do not capture and use customer feedback or share learnings across our organization, resulting in features no one wants.

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Measuring Product Performance

Inconsistent or missing metrics inhibit our ability to take data-driven decisions and effectively shape our product strategy.

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Sample Questions

Customer Centricity and Design Thinking

Our ART builds empathy with customers to understand their needs.

Customer Centricity and Design Thinking

We gather customer feedback and incorporate it into solution development.

Customer Centricity and Design Thinking

Our ART identifies personas to better represent and understand our customers.

Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand

All features have a benefit hypothesis that includes measurable benefits for end-users or the business.

Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand

During PI Planning, teams collaborate to identify dependencies and set achievable objectives.

Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand

Our ART releases value to customers on demand, supporting seamless customer adoption.

Measure and Learn

Our ART measures aspects of flow and addresses bottlenecks in the value stream.

Measure and Learn

Our ART implements improvements based on the Inspect and Adapt (I&A) process.

Measure and Learn

Outcome metrics are clearly defined, measuring both external and internal benefits.

Why Choose the SAFe PDF Assessment?

Customer-Centric Approach
Understand your organization's alignment with customer needs, building empathy, and driving solution development through insights into real-world usage.
Efficient Delivery on Cadence
Evaluate the efficiency of your Agile Release Trains (ARTs) in planning, executing, and adjusting work on a predictable cadence with on-demand releases.
Continuous Improvement and Learning
Ensure your ARTs incorporate metrics, feedback, and iterative improvements to deliver products that consistently meet evolving customer expectations.
Drive Customer-Centric Product Development
With its focus on customer needs and design thinking, the PDF Assessment helps teams stay aligned with real-world customer expectations.
Ensure Predictable and Adaptable Delivery
The PDF Assessment encourages ARTs to plan, execute, and adjust work efficiently, enhancing both predictability and responsiveness.
Data-Driven Continuous Improvement
By assessing flow and learning practices, organizations gain insights into how well they're adapting and improving based on metrics and feedback.

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Evaluate customer-centricity, efficient delivery, and continuous improvement to meet evolving customer needs.