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6 Common Challenges RTEs Face and How to Solve Them
Release Train Engineers (RTEs) have tremendous responsibility in a scaled Agile environment. After all Agile Release Trains (ARTs) can’t steer…
A Leading Pharmaceutical Company Works With Cprime to Nearly Double Speed and Efficiency, Saving Billions
One of the company’s software development teams had been exploring better ways of working for some time in conjunction with…
SAFe® Organizational Change — Achieving 70% Predictability at an International Lifestyle and Beauty Pioneer
Faced with information silos between its international offices and a sprawling collection of over 350 unstandardized, underperforming, and difficult-to-manage brand…
A Leading Pharmaceutical Company Pursues Scaled Agile Excellence with the Help of Cprime
The life sciences leader’s R&D division had already been applying Agile principles to their workflow for some time, and had…
SAFe® for Business Agility—A Cprime and Silicon Valley Transformation Partnership
This client was struggling with a history of siloed work, where everyone worked on everything. This worked as a startup,…
Whitepaper: ART Metrics
Baseline ART-Level Metrics That Actually Prove Success Are you struggling with determining how well your ART is performing using concrete…
SAFe® Transformation with Cprime: Tools to Consider Before You Start
How to embrace the disruption that SAFe® Transformation brings to your teams and create a sustainable enterprise-wide value? The decision…
Utility Company’s Agile Transformation Results in 30% Improvement and Reduced Overhead
Long cycle times and waterfall methodology hindered this utility company’s efforts to respond to change in the market and produce…
Let’s Talk About _____ with the Cprime SAFe Fellows – Panel Series Episode 1: Participatory Budgeting
Let's Talk About _____ with the Cprime SAFe Fellows is an ongoing global webinar panel series with Cprime’s SAFe Fellows…
Getting SAFe© off the Ground at a Major Global Airline Group
With over 58,000 employees, multiple airlines, and several operating companies to oversee, this air transportation giant turned to Cprime to…
Using Lean-Agile Principles to Execute Organizational Transformations
As the speed of business increases exponentially, many organizations find themselves in an awkward position: knowing they need to fundamentally…
SAFe® Capabilities Guide
Scale your organization’s Agile practice with the proven Scaling Agile Framework (SAFe®) You’re looking at this guide because you’re feeling…
A SAFe Vision — A Cprime Lean Agile Transformation with an Optical Imaging Innovator
As newer, low-cost competitors enter the medical optical imaging sector, this leading retinal scanning manufacturer partnered with Cprime to increase…
Insuring Agile: A SAFe Transformation at a Global Commercial P&C Solutions Provider
The commercial casualty and property insurance sector is highly dynamic. Influenced by external factors, including strict domestic and international regulation,…
Agile Transformation under Regulation: Reducing Development Cycles in Big Pharma with Cprime
In a highly controlled industry with glacial development cycles, the company sought to align its process and make incremental improvements…
Global Aerospace Leader Nails Huge Agile Transformation
Case Study Details Industry: Aerospace Highlights the power of Cprime’s Agile and SAFe® training and coaching programs: In highly regulated…
Agile Business Teams: Simple Isn’t Easy
This presentation was part of SAFe Summit 2020. Join Dan Weikart, SAFe Program Consultant Trainer & Delivery Director of Cprime's…
Lean Agile London: Why You Should Care About the New SAFe Business Agility Assessment
Business agility should always be a focus for organizations, now more than ever with the recent disruption we have seen…
Lean Portfolio Strategy Part 4: Picking the Right Tool for the Job
For implementing successful Lean Portfolio Management, you need the right tool. A tool that allows you to connect epics to…
Lean Portfolio Strategy Part 3: Epic Management – Take the Exits
Organizations might have set up all the process steps for portfolio flow: the monthly strategic portfolio review, the portfolio kanban,…
Supporting an Urgent Migration to Cloud and Agile Transformation
This financial company wanted to improve the coordination of their work, help employees manage and release code in an organized…
Achieving Agile 2.0: The Cprime Dojo Experience
Consulting in partnership with senior leaders, the Cprime training team tailored and conducted a highly successful bespoke Dojo program focusing…
Visibility into Velocity: A Unifying Transformation
A marketing tech leader needed increased visibility and a common Agile framework. Cprime provided careful guidance, helping establish product agility…
Agile Transformation – Global P&C Insurance Leader
This global P&C insurance leader always believed in continuous innovation, but due to the speed of business change, they found…
Where’s the Value? An Introduction to Value Streams
Value Streams are tools that enable the responsiveness to embrace change. Value Stream Identification, Value Stream Mapping, and Value Stream…
How to Align your Investments with Future Strategic Outcomes using Participatory Budgeting
Participatory Budgeting is the Lean Portfolio Management process of allocating the total portfolio budgets to its value streams. It offers…
Lean Portfolio Strategy Part 2: Shifting from Imitation to Real LPM – The Move to True Value Streams
Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) is touted as a world-changing paradigm. A shift that promises to boost productivity, time to market,…
Lean Portfolio Strategy Part 1: Visualizing your Strategy Flow for Transparent Outcomes
How can you adopt lean portfolio management in a way that's not disruptive to current operations? What are the minimum…
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: Learnings from Ken France’s Personal Agility Journey
In celebration of the 20th year of the signing of the Agile Manifesto, Ken France, Agility Practice Leader and SAFe…
3rd Annual Agile at Scale Report 2020
The 2020 Agile at Scale Survey provided us, once again, some valuable and interesting insights into the state of our…
How to Get Real-Time and Actionable Visibility Into Your Value Streams
Tasktop Viz™ implements the Flow Framework® to enable organizations to measure business value and results, instead of projects and costs.…
NCR: Scaled Agile Transformation with Atlassian and Cprime
NCR, a banking and commerce solutions leader, was looking for help scaling their agile practices. Atlassian called on Cprime to…
Where Do Business Analysts Fit into the Scaled Agile Framework?
For many years, the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe) has been a leading scaling methodology for large enterprises wanting to apply…
Getting Started with Continuous Delivery using SAFe®
Software has become critical to almost every organization’s success. In order to stay relevant and useful, your software development teams…
SAFe® vs. DevOps
On the surface, comparing a productized program management framework like SAFe® and an open community-driven movement like DevOps may seem like…
Addressing Disengagement: How to Run a Value-Driven Virtual SAFe Problem-Solving Workshop
The importance of the Inspect & Adapt ceremony In SAFe™ cannot be understated. It enables every Agile Release Train (ART)…
Agile DevOps Transformation at Alegeus
When this leading benefits administration management organization recognized the need for an Agile/DevOps transformation at scale, they committed fully to…
Laying a Jira Foundation to Support Scaled Transformation
In this session from Aperture 2020 with Solutions Architect Lisa Barton, uncover the necessary bases to support a successful SAFe…
How to Maximize Design Thinking and Customer Centricity with SAFe 5.0 and Atlassian Jira Align
A common question when looking at the SAFe Big Picture has been “Where’s the Customer?” and until now, the Customer…
How to Leverage SAFe 5.0 for Your Enterprise Cloud Strategy
Have you incorporated Cloud strategy into your SAFe transformation yet? Does your organization truly have a strategy to integrate Cloud…
Remote Working in a SAFe Environment: Collaborative Online Meetings and Fully Distributed PI Planning
While both the Agile Manifesto and SAFe highlight the benefits of face-to-face communication, it has often been the case that…
The RTE’S Guide to Remote Delivery
What do Release Train Engineers need to do to adapt to a remote, virtual environment and remain high functioning? Stay…
Virtual PI Planning in 4 Days
Have you suddenly found yourself in a 100% remote organization? Not to fear, Cprime has forged a fool-proof virtual strategy…
Achieving Better Regulatory Compliance and Governance with Scaled Agility (SAFe)
Engineering tomorrow’s products mean staying ahead and relevant in a constantly changing environment. A core characteristic of regulated environments is…
Real Life Agile Product Delivery Using Design Thinking in SAFe 5.0
In this webinar Dean Leffingwell, SAFe creator and Chief Methodologist, and Anne Steiner, Cprime's VP of Product Agility, take a…
How to Define your Strategy for Enterprise Alignment with Jira Align
Are you starting your strategic planning for next year and beyond? How did your team meet their objectives last year?…
2nd Annual Agile at Scale Report 2019
The Agile at Scale Survey for 2018 includes a number of new and exciting insights as well as confirmations for…
Scaling Architecture, Requirements and Design – The Mystery of the 11th Principle
The Principles outlined in the Agile Manifesto provide us with guidance and direction on how to adopt an Agile mindset…
The ART of Value Streams: Determining Paths of Value Through Value Streams Workshop
The concept of a Value Stream is fundamental to SAFe and how to optimally organize your Teams, ARTs, and Solution…
The “ART” of Value Streams – Ken France Presents at SAFe Summit 2018
The concept of a Value Stream is fundamental to SAFe and how to optimally organize your Teams, ARTs, and Solution…
Are you safe with SAFe®?
Is SAFe the right framework for my organization? After all, there are numerous other frameworks (Disciplined Agile, Nexus, LeSS, S@S,…
Mixing Agile and other Life Cycles in Large Scale Complex Environments
Building large-scale software and cyber-physical systems are one of the most complex and challenging endeavors in the industry today. Lean…
Lean Leadership at the Portfolio Level
“It is not enough that management commit themselves to quality and productivity, they must know what it is they must…
Applying Organizational Change and Leadership to Agile Transformations
It is no secret that when an organization chooses to transition to Agile methodologies, it requires an enormous commitment to…
Taking Enterprise Agile to the next level with SAFe 4.0
In this webinar, Director and Chief Methodologist at Scaled Agile, Inc, Dean Leffingwell walks us through the new elements in…
10 SAFe Essential Elements to Achieve the Benefits of SAFe
In this webinar we explore what could happen as the Agile Release Train progresses with each later Program Increment. You…
Live Virtual Panel Discussion on DevOps in SAFe 4.5
Presenters discussing DevOps in SAFe 4.5 in this Virtual Panel: Zubin Irani, CEO of Cprime. Brandon Cipes, VP of DevOps…
Cprime’s Atlassian SAFe 4.5 Jira Solution
In this presentation you will learn about Cprime’s approach to supporting SAFe® 4.5 with the Atlassian suite. Cprime’s Atlassian Certified…
Value Streams and SAFe
Understanding and visualizing the flow of value in your organization is one of the first steps for implementing the Scaled…
Implementing SAFe in Jira
Here is a quick overview of our approach for implementing SAFe in Jira. Cprime’s Jira SAFe product blends Atlassian’s ALM…
BlueKit: A Collection of Tools and Templates to Amplify Agile adoption!
As the organization began to implement agile at scale, several challenges emerged, chief amongst them was knowledge management. With the…
Scaling Agile with Atlassian and SAFe®
Together, with Atlassian, we are proud to release the “Scaling Agile with Atlassian and SAFe®” white paper This solution…
Scaling Agile Survey 2017
Scaling Agile Report 2017” surveys professionals interested in Agile practices to see how companies view the importance of scaling their…
SAFe® Implementation for Global, Diversified Technology Company
Healthcare is big business, always changing, and rapidly accelerating. Technological advancements will continue to change how patient care is delivered…
Value Stream Optimization: SAFe® Case Study with SK Hynix
SK Hynix wanted to optimize their Value Streams by empowering people to self organize. They needed to improve product delivery…
SAFe Framework Overview
Scaled Agile Framework® Overview Do you have highly functional scrum teams but are wondering how to get them to work…