Episode 8: Dean Leffingwell on Measuring the Business Impact of SAFe® - a podcast by Dr. Mik Kersten: Author of Project to Product and Founder & CEO of Tasktop

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In the eighth episode of Mik + One, the official Project to Product podcast, Mik’s guest is Dean Leffingwell, Co-founder and Chief Methodologist at Scaled Agile.



In this episode, Mik and Dean cover:



  • SAFe 5.0 and the importance of having business agility in addition to technical agility


  • The different types of customers and understanding why internal customers are just as valuable and important as external ones


  • Abandoning organizational hierarchies to become more agile and survive digital disruption, as well as other paths for organizations to take to achieve business agility


  • Why teams must have autonomy but not be autonomous to successfully work within an organization that is scaling


  • Why establishing a common taxonomy is critical to get people to think in terms of outcomes and delivering business value


  • Advice to help organizations ensure a successful SAFe transformation by focusing on outcome-based metrics and an end-to-end feedback loop



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For more information about Dean Leffingwell, to view the full list of episodes featured in this episode, and to download the episode transcript, visit:
https://projecttoproduct.org/podcast/dean-leffingwell/


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