Turn your SAFe® transformation into a working operating model.
Introduce, evolve, and scale lean-agile ways of working across the organization while preserving the know-how that still adds value. PEDCO combines transformation expertise, structured assessments, process engineering experience, and the Applied SAFe® Platform to help move from framework adoption to sustained organizational change.
- Assess the current state
- Design the transformation
- Adapt the operating model
- Learn where resistance is
Transformation is more than adopting a framework.
A successful transformation has to connect the framework with the realities of the organization: existing processes, roles, engineering practices, quality and regulatory constraints, technology, culture, and the way work actually flows.
Transformation & Adoption services help organizations understand where they are today, define the target state, introduce SAFe® at scale, adapt supporting quality and engineering practices, and continuously learn where the change is working or meeting resistance.
The services can be used independently or combined as part of a broader transformation program.
Five services across the transformation.
Scaled Agile Fitness Check
With our Fitness Check we check and evaluate your current SAFe® implementation. In a first step we collect your special point of interests and analyse your landscape accordingly. The result is a detailed report that also includes any weaknesses or opportunities for improvement in your implementation.
Benefits- Understand any deficiencies in your current implementation.
- Ensure that your implementation, including processes, roles, work products, tailoring, diversity and also the handling of process information as a whole, are assessed in a structured and independent manner.
- Have the assurance that your company is at the cutting edge of the SAFe® implementation and that there is nothing more to be done.
Scaled Agility with SAFe®
To benefit from the full power of agile methods and a lean mindset those principles need to be scaled to higher levels or even the whole enterprise than just to the development team. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) is the most adopted agile scaling methodology globally. We enable you to achieve a successful transformation.
Benefits- Launch your first Agile Release Train (ART) successfully within weeks.
- Create a lean-agile working environment that scales smoothly from teams over programs, products and external suppliers up to portfolios.
- Collaborate easily with non-agile teams or suppliers via a common well-aligned hybrid development model.
Lean-Agile Quality Management
Quality assurance, assessments, process engineering and deployment including your governance system have to understand lean-agile principles and practices to serve your development organization efficiently while keeping compliant with internal and external regulatory requirements. The discipline and feedback cycles in an agile environment foster quality even better. We enable you to achieve a successful mindset change.
Benefits- Map agile delivery practices to given reference frameworks and regulatory requirements and stay compliant.
- Understand emergent design techniques to better challenge and define a minimal description and documentation requirements in relation to the product lifecycle.
- Integrate your quality management system and metrics into the feedback cycles of your agile product development.
Emergent Design & Agile Requirements
Keeping pace with client demand while keeping technical debt under control is a challenge for large-scale system development. In an agile setup, emergent design practices and intentional architecture combined with agreed capacity allocations for client, architecture and infrastructure features ensure to balance both sustainably. We enable you to achieve a successful transformation.
Benefits- Transparent, understood, and well-aligned decisions regarding client value delivery, complexity reduction, and operational cost.
- Effective application of epic, capability, feature and story splitting techniques in requirements engineering to achieve a constant flow and capacity utilization based on WIP limits.
- Close and constant collaboration between agile teams, architects and product management.
AI-Assisted Transformation Readiness & ResistanceNew with the platform
Transformation leaders can usually see adoption metrics, delivery activity, survey scores and retrospective output — but those signals rarely explain why teams are struggling. Adaptive AI-supported surveys and AI voice interviews listen across selected roles, teams and ARTs, identify recurring patterns, and connect them to the practices, roles, tailoring decisions and organizational constraints behind them. We enable you to tell an adoption problem from an operating-model problem.
Benefits- Understand where the transformation is gaining traction and where teams are working around the new process.
- Investigate the reasons behind resistance or friction with follow-up questions, concrete examples, and comparisons across roles, teams and ARTs.
- Turn evidence-backed findings into prioritized transformation actions instead of another communication campaign.
Not a fixed sequence — a set of services that complement one another.
- Understand the current stateScaled Agile Fitness Check
- Define & execute the transformationScaled Agility with SAFe®
- Adapt the supporting operating modelLean-Agile Quality ManagementEmergent Design & Agile Requirements
- Understand adoption & resistanceAI-Assisted Transformation Readiness & Resistance
Questions we get
Do we need to start with a Fitness Check?
No. Fitness Checks provide a structured starting point when an organization wants an independent baseline, but Transformation & Adoption services can also start from an existing transformation roadmap or a specific problem.
Do you replace our existing processes when introducing SAFe®?
No. Existing processes, practices, and organizational know-how are inputs to the transformation. The work preserves what still adds value, removes unnecessary duplication, and changes what no longer fits the target way of working.
Can these services support regulated engineering organizations?
Yes. Lean-Agile Quality Management and Reference Model to Agile Mappings specifically address the interaction between agile transformation, quality management, reference models, and regulatory obligations.
How do AI surveys and voice interviews fit with the existing Fitness Checks?
They complement the structured assessment methods. Fitness Checks establish a broad view of maturity and implementation quality; adaptive surveys and voice interviews can investigate why specific adoption issues or process problems exist.
Do we need Applied SAFe® Platform to use the existing services?
No. Existing PEDCO services can continue to be delivered independently. Applied SAFe® Platform adds a governed model in which transformation decisions, process changes, tailoring, compliance relationships, and improvement actions can be maintained and evolved.
Build the operating model the transformation needs.
Whether you are preparing to scale SAFe®, assessing an existing implementation, adapting quality and engineering practices, or trying to understand why adoption is stalling, start from your current situation and define the engagement around the transformation outcome you need.
