Expanding the responsibility of an offshore team and sustainably increasing business value using SAFe

Abstract

The paper outlines a four-year journey of a software engineering team based in Bangalore, India, which transitioned from having the responsibility of different modules to complete engineering responsibility of the range of software products. The paper also talks about the proactive steps taken to transition to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) [1] successfully and discusses the challenges related to people and team culture. The paper also summarizes lessons learned from the journey.