Andrew Sales Chief Methodologist, SAFe Fellow and SPCT

About Andrew Sales

Andrew Sales has successfully guided numerous organisations through SAFe® transformations across various industries, drawing on his many years of Lean and Agile experience. As Chief Methodologist, Andrew is passionate about helping SAFe enterprises identify better ways of working by applying Lean, Agile, and DevOps at scale. In addition, he fulfils the role of Framework product manager, ensuring that Scaled Agile, Inc. has a clear vision, roadmap, and set of priorities for how SAFe will meet the needs of our customers. As a member of Scaled Agile’s leadership team, Andrew is responsible for defining the strategy for evolving the SAFe to support enterprises in achieving business agility.

He previously led the Agile Services Practice across EMEA for CA Technologies (formerly Rally) and is a regular keynote speaker at Agile conferences. Andrew is a lifelong learner and recently completed research exploring how organisational structure impacts organisational performance.

Organisations worldwide are embracing Lean and Agile as a foundation for a new way of working to accelerate value delivery. Many organisations are seeing great results in improved productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction. However, for some, these outcomes remain out of reach or not commensurate with the investment made.

In this talk, SAFe Chief Methodologist Andrew Sales shares insights from over 10 years of SAFe implementations, identifying 3 critical moves that help ensure success and the steps needed to implement each. The first move requires connecting the desired outcomes to real business results, the second, a relentless commitment to improving flow, and the third, recognising the need for an integrated set of Lean product and portfolio practices.