SAFe Assessment Collection
Agile Product Delivery
by SAFe
The SAFe Agile Product Delivery (APD) Assessment empowers organizations to evaluate their proficiency in delivering continuous, high-value product flow tailored to customer needs. Built on customer-centricity and design thinking, the APD assessment measures an organization's ability to define, build, and release a steady stream of impactful products and services.
Andrew Sales
Chief Methodologist and SAFe Fellow,
Scaled Agility, Inc.
Dean Leffingwell
Co-founder and Chief Methodologist
Scaled Agility, Inc.
How Does It Work?
The assessment uses targeted statements with an accessible rating scale to gauge alignment with Agile Product Delivery principles. This structured approach reveals areas of strength and opportunities for improvement across customer-centricity, cadence-based delivery, and continuous improvement practices.
Core Benefits of the SAFe APD Assessment
Why Choose the SAFe APD Assessment?
Customer-Centric Approach
Understand your organization's alignment with customer needs, building empathy, and driving solution development through insights into real-world usage.
Drive Customer-Centric Product Development
With its focus on customer needs and design thinking, the APD Assessment helps teams stay aligned with real-world customer expectations.
Efficient Delivery on Cadence
Evaluate the efficiency of your Agile Release Trains (ARTs) in planning, executing, and adjusting work on a predictable cadence with on-demand releases.
Ensure Predictable and Adaptable Delivery
The APD Assessment encourages ARTs to plan, execute, and adjust work efficiently, enhancing both predictability and responsiveness.
Continuous Improvement and Learning
Ensure your ARTs incorporate metrics, feedback, and iterative improvements to deliver products that consistently meet evolving customer expectations.
Data-Driven Continuous Improvement
By assessing flow and learning practices, organizations gain insights into how well they're adapting and improving based on metrics and feedback.
Sample Questions
Customer Centricity and Design Thinking
Our ART builds empathy with customers to understand their needs.
Customer Centricity and Design Thinking
We gather customer feedback and incorporate it into solution development.
Customer Centricity and Design Thinking
Our ART identifies personas to better represent and understand our customers.
Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand
All features have a benefit hypothesis that includes measurable benefits for end-users or the business.
Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand
During PI Planning, teams collaborate to identify dependencies and set achievable objectives.
Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand
Our ART releases value to customers on demand, supporting seamless customer adoption.
Measure and Learn
Our ART measures aspects of flow and addresses bottlenecks in the value stream.
Measure and Learn
Our ART implements improvements based on the Inspect and Adapt (I&A) process.
Measure and Learn
Outcome metrics are clearly defined, measuring both external and internal benefits.