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Foster Systematic Agile Transitions with SAFe® and efiS® Oriented Team Evaluations

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Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2023)

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Agile transitions are complex changes within organizations and their employees. Typically, established frameworks are used as a kind of implementation target picture for the first milestones of transitions. To evaluate the progress of the adoption of the target frameworks the organizations with their teams need feedback. The proposed approach address these feedback for transitions with a SAFe® and efiS® framework focus. This includes Scrum with the SAFe® Scrum derivation. The approach was designed to facilitate the transition journey of product teams and organizations in large enterprises. The presented case study of the Volkswagen Group IT shows the facilitation of the journey in direction to a more agile and product oriented organization.

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    Alexander Poth, Mario Kottke & Mourine Schardt

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Poth, A., Kottke, M., Schardt, M. (2023). Foster Systematic Agile Transitions with SAFe® and efiS® Oriented Team Evaluations. In: Yilmaz, M., Clarke, P., Riel, A., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1891. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42310-9_4

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