SAFe implementations fail when treated as a compliance exercise rather than a culture shift. We design and implement frameworks that match your organizational structure, govern delivery, and produce velocity that actually lasts.
Most SAFe implementations produce more ceremonies and fewer results. The organization goes through the motions of PI Planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives, but the underlying operating model, decision-making culture, and funding structure do not change. Agile becomes a layer on top of waterfall rather than a replacement for it.
PI Planning events, ARTs, and retrospectives are adopted as rituals without the leadership behaviors and governance changes that make them work. The result is expensive theater that frustrates both business and delivery teams.
Agile delivery requires value-stream-based funding, not project-based budgeting. Organizations that implement SAFe without changing how they fund work maintain the waterfall constraints that Agile was supposed to eliminate.
Most SAFe implementations are supported through ART launch and first PI. The second and third PI, when the organizational friction is highest and initial enthusiasm has faded, are when sustained coaching matters most. We stay.
Every engagement starts with your organizational context before we recommend framework design.
Honest evaluation of your organization's current delivery capability, culture, and leadership alignment before we design the framework. We would rather tell you it is not the right time for SAFe than implement it in an environment that is not ready.
Agile Release Train design tailored to your value streams and organizational boundaries, not copied from a case study. ART launch support through the first Program Increment, including team formation, backlog development, and PI Planning facilitation.
Agile leadership coaching for sponsors, senior managers, and the business stakeholders who interact with delivery teams. The cultural change has to start at the top and requires more than a one-day workshop.
Portfolio governance redesign from project-based to value-stream-based funding, Lean budgeting, and portfolio Kanban. This is the governance change that makes scaled agile stick at the enterprise level.
Individual teams are running sprints but there is no coherence across teams, portfolios, or business alignment. The program level is still waterfall.
SAFe is designed for organizations where Agile needs governance, structure, and predictability, not just speed. If you have hundreds of developers or multiple business units, ad-hoc Agile does not scale.
Programs with 50+ people across multiple teams, complex dependencies, and shared infrastructure need ART-level coordination. SAFe provides the framework, we provide implementation experience.
Recovery engagements are a significant part of our work. The patterns behind failed implementations are consistent and diagnosable, and most are recoverable with the right intervention.
We bring certification-backed knowledge but lead with practical experience. Siva has implemented SAFe at scale in environments where it had to work: regulated industries, large complex organizations, politically sensitive programs. Theory and practice are not always the same, and our value is in bridging that gap.