Agile HR with SAFe?
Fabiola Eyholzer
Board & Executive Advisor at JLS - Agile HR Transformation Experts
Lean-Agile development with SAFe reinvents the way we develop systems and helps build an engaged, talented, and vigorous workforce. But it also highlights the disconnect of traditional practices with the realities of 21st Century people and organizations. This short guidance article summary and downloadable whitepaper describes six basic themes on how to implement various aspects of more contemporary Lean-Agile People solutions with SAFe.
by Fabiola Eyholzer, CEO – Just Leading Solutions LLC
with Dean Leffingwell, Co-founder & Chief Methodologist – Scaled Agile Inc.
Enterprises across all industries are increasingly dependent on the software and systems they sell or operate. The Scaled Agile Framework ? (SAFe) has become the predominant approach to building and deploying the enterprise class software and systems needed to remain viable in an increasingly digital marketplace. In addition to extensive practice guidance, SAFe promotes and describes a comprehensive set of values and principles.
It is this new mindset that challenges Human Resources (HR) to realign their People approach to this new way of working. It imposes a far-reaching transformation to bring HR into the 21st Century by shifting from a process-oriented HR Management to an empowering Lean-Agile People Operations. It changes the face and significance of HR forever.
In this original whitepaper, we describe the following six basic themes that can guide Leaders and their HR Partners on how to address various aspects of more contemporary Lean-Agile People solutions in the Lean-Agile Enterprise:
#1 Embrace the New Talent Contract
#2 Foster Continuous Engagement
#3 Hire for Attitude and Cultural Fit
#4 Move to Iterative Performance Flow
#5 Take the Issue of Money off the Table
#6 Support Impactful Learning & Growth
No matter where you are in your transformation journey towards a modern responsive Enterprise, the time is right to embrace Lean-Agile People Operations and become equipped to deal with the challenges of today’s organizations and people. Investing in Lean-Agile People Operations is an investment in your people – in your future.
If you are interested in learning more about how to align your HR themes with the mindset and flow of your SAFe Lean-Agile enterprise, download and read the full whitepaper!
Click here to download the full whitepaper
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L&D Consulting | Products | Partnership | Customer Success
7 年Interesting !
Project Manager Scrum Master at ARMY & AIRFORCE EXCHANGE SERVICE - AAFES
7 年Fabiola Eyholzer, Good thoughts,But, what is the business that you targeting to? If it is IT, may be to certain extent we can accept the shift, but in any other industry, We can still implement Lean, Agile but not in HR. I still doubt on how you want to use your release train concepts of SAFe, can be introduced in HR.
Cybersecurity | Compliance | Artificial Intelligence | Military veteran
7 年Thank you for sharing your thoughts Fabiola. Something that people should keep in mind is that to realize the potential of Agile, all aspects of your operations need the Agile mindset. You have made the logical extension to HR. And this is appropriate as people are a firm's most important asset as they create and maintain the intellectual property.
Product Development Executive
7 年Looks like someone has been playing buzzword bingo. SAFe for HR = waste of team and money
Transformation and Org Design Leader
7 年The content in this whitepaper has very little to do with SAFe. They are agile principles applied to a re-design of HR departments, in an effort to make these departments more adaptive to create comparative advantage for hiring and retemtion in the labor market.