Fit the organization
Processes should reflect the organization's context, products, delivery model, and governance needs.
Process Design & Development
Design the process your organization actually needs.
Specialist capacity for designing processes, work-product structures, practice libraries, roles, and relationships — starting from your existing processes, standard models, Applied SAFe®, or a combination.
Process architecture
ActivitiesWork productsRolesPracticesLifecycleInterfaces
Organizational customization & integration with existing assetsOverview
New processes without building a process-engineering team for every initiative.
Organizations frequently need to create new processes or extend existing ones without building a large internal process-engineering team for every initiative.
Process Design & Development provides specialist capacity for designing processes, work-product structures, practice libraries, roles, and relationships. The work can start from existing organizational processes, standard models, Applied SAFe®, or a combination of these inputs.
Objective
Create lightweight, usable process structures that fit the organization rather than forcing the organization into a generic process model.
Design principles
Four rules the design follows.
Keep work products coherent
Work-product models should make ownership, relationships, and interfaces clear while avoiding unnecessary duplication.
Separate different artifact lifecycles
Long-lived product or application artifacts may need to be treated differently from transient project artifacts.
Remain tool-independent
The process design should be driven by the operating model rather than by limitations of a particular process tool.
The engagement can include
Process architectureProcess and activity designWork-product modelingRole definitionsPractice librariesLifecycle structureProcess interfacesOrganizational customizationIntegration with existing process assets
Deliverables — depending on scope
- Process model
- Work-product model
- Role model
- Practice library
- Process diagrams
- Process relationships
- Governance structure
- Implementation recommendations
Benefits
- Add process-engineering capacity without building everything internally.
- Avoid starting process design from a blank page.
- Create processes tailored to organizational needs.
- Apply proven process-design patterns.
- Keep the process design independent of a particular tooling approach.