Workshops
How to save SAFe — in Action
For organisations that implemented SAFe and changed nothing underneath: the events are in the calendar, the roles have new names, business as usual carries on. We find where that happens in your system and fix it at the level where it leaks — governance, funding, decision rights, measurement.
The offer
Start with the health check
It tells you which level leaks most; the matching day fixes it.
01Health check — How to save SAFe
½ day · Leadership, VMO, RTEs, Product Management
You leave with: Your organisation placed on the 25-part map: which parts are business as usual in disguise, your 3 biggest leaks, and the decision behind each.
02Portfolio day — strategy to epics
1 day · Portfolio leadership, VMO, Epic Owners
You leave with: The portfolio as a portfolio of strategic investments: epics as a strategy to win. Strategic themes as chosen shifts, a portfolio vision, epics as business hypotheses with measurable outcomes, a QBR that stops things.
03ART day — the ART Triangle
1 day · Product Management, System Architect, RTE
You leave with: Features as benefit hypotheses, a PI Planning that commits to outcomes, a System Demo that changes the backlog the same week.
04Team day — Scrum and flow, hands-on
1 day · Teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners
You leave with: Experienced the difference between Scrum as a calendar and Scrum as a feedback loop; WIP limits felt, not explained.
05Scaled Agile Experience day
1 day · Mixed group across the three levels
You leave with: One epic built through portfolio, ART and team in a day: impact map, features, PI plan, demo.
06Follow-on coaching
Per month · Whoever owns the leak
You leave with: The change made and measured in your own events.
The health check
Half a day, your own map
Half a day with the people who own governance, funding and the calendar. No slides about SAFe; the map on the wall.
- Symptoms — the room names what it recognises: everything is a priority, reviews are status meetings, teams wait for decisions.
- Place yourselves on the map — per part: what it is for, what it has turned into here, how you notice.
- Three leaks — the room picks the three that cost most and names the decision behind each: who decides, on what evidence, how late.
You leave with your own map, the three decisions, and a recommendation on which level to work on first. Nothing is sold in the room.
Book a call
Talk it through first
Pick a time for a short call: which symptoms you see, and whether the health check is the right start.
Practical
- In-house on your site, or hosted off-site at a venue we arrange, in Dutch, French or English. Groups of 8 to 16; the Experience day up to 24.
- Delivered by Martijn Oost, Beyond Agile — 25+ years of Lean and agile work, scaled transformations with more than a hundred teams.
- Independent work, not SAFe® certification training.
- Read first: start with your problem.