SAFe 4.5 Reference Guide: Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises, Second edition

Train Executives, Managers, and Leaders

The questions is ‘Does the group include enough proven leaders to be able to drive the change process?’

—John Kotter

In the previous chapter, Training Lean-Agile Change Agents, we described the three steps needed to create a guiding coalition:

1. Train a number of Lean-Agile change agents as SAFe Program Consultants (SPCs)

2. Train executives, managers, and other leaders

3. Charter a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE)

We described how SPCs—acting as change agents—can ignite transformation within an enterprise. But they alone do not constitute a “sufficiently powerful guiding coalition” for change. To create ...