Deutsche Telekom: Mission Possible – Story of SAFe The Ongoing Story of SAFe at a Major European Telco Share: Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies, with some 242 million mobile customers, 27 million fixed-network lines, and 22 million broadband lines. Deutsche Telekom IT has moved from 0 to 130 ARTs in less than three years. Now a new phase is beginning. Here, alignment, consolidation, and relentless improvement take center stage. In this session, Agile coaches Richard Butler and Manfred Becking take you on this journey of highs and lows, what helped or hindered them, and what they learned along the way. Topics include: The results to date around collaboration, speed, transparency, and focusGoing forward: fusing and consolidatingTransformation learnings:Understanding and CognitionGrowing realization of things that need to be done RelativityNo speed fits all Need for KnowYou can’t travel to the stars SAFely unless you know how It’s a complex and unique universe – things don’t fit together by chance. Mindset – Agile behavior doesn’t just happenBlack Holes:Methodology Disconnects“Resilofication” will occur without alignmentNo Value-Stream, No AgilityIf it’s not E2E there won’t be smooth flowInertia – Where the inertia is the highest, so is the gravityMirage – You might call it SAFe but it doesn’t mean that it is SAFeIt’s the MindsetLinear solutions don’t solve dynamically complex problems Presented at the 2021 Global SAFe Summit, October 2021 by: Manfred Becking, Agile Coach, SAFe Consultant /Deutsche TelekomRichard Butler, Agile Coach, SAFe Consultant /Deutsche Telekom Back to: Customer Stories Explore more Customer Stories Next: Porsche Customer Story Learn more about Porsche