Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) tool

IBM Targetprocess is key to adopting SAFe 6.0 for true business agility

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Overview

Turn enterprise agility into measurable business outcomes

Business challenge

As SAFe expands across portfolios, disconnected tools and manual reporting make it difficult to see whether investments are advancing strategy. Dependencies surface late, funding remains locked to outdated assumptions and leaders lack a reliable view of value delivery.

How IBM Targetprocess helps

Targetprocess gives executives a single view of strategy, investment and execution—revealing risks, dependencies and value delivery in real time. Leaders can make faster decisions, redirect funding to the highest priorities and scale SAFe with greater confidence and control.

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Full SAFe Ready

Full SAFe helps enterprises align strategy and execution across portfolios, programs and teams. Targetprocess supports every SAFe configuration with flexible planning, real-time visibility and connected investment decisions—enabling organizations to scale agility and deliver value faster.

Portfolio level

IBM Targetprocess connects strategy, budgets and portfolio execution. Leaders can prioritize epics, manage investment themes, track value streams and monitor progress against business goals—providing the visibility needed to redirect funding and improve outcomes.

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IBM Targetprocess view of SAFe-based portfolio epics, capabilities and features
A digital kanban board interface displays multiple columns for managing portfolio work. Each column contains color-coded cards representing tasks in different stages such as backlog, evaluation, and planning. The screen shows various icons, tags, and small numeric indicators on each card, suggesting priorities, statuses, or counts. The layout is clean and minimal, with a light background emphasizing the structured workflow.
Visualize and manage the flow of portfolio epics, from ideation through analysis, implementation and completion
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Guide your epic owners with customizable portfolio epic templates

Large solution level

IBM Targetprocess coordinates multiple agile release trains and suppliers around shared solutions. Roadmaps, capabilities, milestones, risks and dependencies provide a unified view, helping organizations manage complex delivery and keep solution development aligned.

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Easily manage your solution backlog and quickly see related features with all relevant details
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Break down solution trains into agile release trains and agile teams for quick and easy transparency to your STE and others

Essential level

IBM Targetprocess supports PI planning and agile release train execution by connecting objectives, features, capacity, dependencies and progress. Shared planning views help teams coordinate commitments, identify risks early and deliver value predictably.

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Rank features by WSJF and prioritize your program backlog with confidence
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Spot planning issues early with a detailed Program Board
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Easily align team iteration cadence with easy-to-use timelines
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Use PI objectives for goal setting and easy communication with business or management, and business value delivery tracking
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Plan your iterations in a PI with a view on capacity and dependencies to prevent overloads and resolve blockers
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Allow product management, release train engineers and others to quickly see important data of the program all in one place for maximum transparency
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Show where your ART is running behind schedule or where you’ve missed milestones with a roadmap

IBM Targetprocess for teams

Targetprocess gives teams flexible boards and backlogs to plan, prioritize and track daily work. Teams can manage stories, tasks, defects and iterations using agile, traditional or hybrid methods while keeping delivery connected to program and portfolio goals.

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Spot bottlenecks and optimize your value delivery flow by setting work-in-progress limits on your Team Kanban boards
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See cycle time and WIP changes per state over time with a cumulative flow diagram
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View your teams project completion times to maintain health of sprints
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Encourage quality and improved delivery performances by restricting work-in-progress to optimize work capacity
Use cases

More IBM Targetprocess use cases

Demand intake

Unify project intake for smarter portfolio decisions.

 Dependency management

Identify, visualize and monitor cross-portfolio dependencies.

 Strategic portfolio management

Align decision-making to strategic objectives across portfolios.

 Workforce management

Connect people, skills and capacity to strategic execution.

Resources

Insights and supporting materials

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The fast track guide to SAFe implementation
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Starmark’s shift from waterfall to agile drives growth with IBM Targetprocess

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Connect strategy to portfolio decisions

Manage work, resources and portfolios in one place—while keeping every team aligned to business strategy. Start your free trial and see how IBM Targetprocess can help you connect strategy to delivery, optimize investments and deliver value with maximum agility.
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