Time flies - the SAFe & AI Summit took place four weeks ago, and we at Team Scagilize are still looking back fondly on the wonderful encounters and conversations we had in Amsterdam. We have a lot of news to share - here’s an overview:

The SAFe & AI Summit took place in Amsterdam from March 22 to 25. Scagilize was represented by Managing Director Gerd Wessling, SAFe Fellows Brian Tucker and Ian Spence, and Tjardt Möller – and we also brought along representatives from our current SAFe and AI-Native consulting clients.

What stood out to us: 
The overall (optimistic) atmosphere was fantastic, the AI-Native (course) concept is becoming increasingly “mature”, “Customizing SAFe” was a major topic – as was the steadily growing realization that becoming AI-Native and already being lean/agile (hopefully 😀) creates particularly high synergies within companies.

The two-part course has become a three-part series:
The one-day course/workshop “Leading the AI-Native Organization” is designed for executives who want to integrate internal AI experiences and ideas into a comprehensive, actionable AI strategy - and achieve very concrete results even during the course itself.
This course/workshop is also ideally suited for in-house delivery (on-site or remotely) – please feel free to contact us!

We’re proud to announce our international AI-Native course offerings — currently featuring Brian Tucker in London and Tjardt Möller in Vienna and Stockholm . More dates, cities, and countries to come.

Upcoming courses (more can be found online ):

We’ve also added new dates for our AI-Native courses in Germany. Stephanie Fischer, Jörg Nitschmann, Anja Wickert, Gerd Wessling, and Tjardt Möller are ready to kick off the next phase of our AI-Native training initiative. The feedback we’ve received so far—for example, from Berlin and Frankfurt—has been outstanding!

To book our AI-Native courses, please click here.

Of course, we’d also be happy to organize these AI-Native courses in-house at your company. We look forward to hearing from you!

How can a company successfully and quickly overcome the “AI-Native gap” (see image above)?

On this topic — and the five success patterns that almost always help, regardless of the business context — there are highly interesting, up-to-date PDFs and white papers from the AI-Native core team available for free download on our website.

Since early March, Scagilize has been the exclusive partner of the Swedish company Nooga in the DACH region. The experts in scaled lean/agile tooling solutions are now introducing two new products: Nooga Risk and Nooga Portfolio.

Nooga Risk revolutionizes risk management through seamless integration into existing development workflows in MS Azure DevOps. No context switching, no separate GRC tools—just efficient, AI-powered risk management that works right where your teams are working. 

Nooga Portfolio adds a layer of strategic planning to MS Azure DevOps and links OKRs and epics to the teams implementing them, allowing leaders and executors to focus on what matters most. 

Learn more about this exciting partnership here

And one last tip for all SPCs reading this: Brian Tucker is speaking today ( April 21, starting at 5 p.m.) at the SPC Circle, which is covering the topic “Customizing SAFe: Why, Why, Why, Why???”.

The SPC Circle is a bimonthly online meeting specifically for active SPCs to network and share experiences

And that’s all from us for this month. If you have any questions, suggestions, or comments about the newsletter or our offerings, we’d love to hear from you. 

Best regards,

Gerd Wessling, Tjardt Möller, Brian Tucker, Ian Spence, Jörg Nitschmann, Stephanie Fischer, Peter Klausmann, and the entire Team Scagilize