What’s Next for Business Agility? Find out at the 2025 SAFe® Summit
by Hannah Bink, Vice President Marketing, nVeris
The State of SAFe® Report offers an unfiltered look at the patterns, pain points, and progress shaping SAFe adoption. This year’s report surfaces a clear and persistent theme:
“Value stream identification remains a major gap. A significant number of organizations have struggled to organize around value, instead maintaining existing hierarchical and project-based structures. Without true value stream alignment, organizations may struggle with dependencies, prioritization, and flow.”
If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone.
Despite gains in delivery maturity and tooling, many SAFe enterprises are still stuck at the starting line when it comes to designing around flow. Value Stream and ART Identification Workshops are meant to help. But for many teams, these sessions can feel like more friction than fuel.
So what’s getting in the way—and how do we fix it?
Why Value Stream and ART Identification Workshops Often Stalls Before It Starts
Based on conversations with SAFe leaders across industries, a few patterns emerge:
- Most teams are still operating from project-era org charts, not from true value delivery paths.
- Sessions often get bogged down in politics, ambiguity, or endless sticky-note debates.
- Facilitators report spending weeks prepping, only to lose momentum in the first hour.
- And many teams—despite good intentions—walk away with a diagram, but not a decision.
The report highlights that many organizations are struggling to move beyond initial implementation, often falling into anti-patterns like adopting SAFe in name only or maintaining legacy structures. These gaps present a critical opportunity to equip internal leaders with better tools for enabling real alignment.
SAFe provides the structure. What many organizations need now is a better way to activate it in the room.
A Better Way to Run Value Stream and ART Identification Workshops
This year at SAFe® Summit Denver, a new Master Class is offering a hands-on way to close this critical capability gap.
Master Class: Running High-Impact Value Stream & ART Identification Workshops
Date: Monday, September 8, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Location: SAFe Summit Denver (Pre-conference training)
Cost: $595 (includes one-year access to nVeris)
This full-day experience is designed for anyone who’s ever led (or been asked to lead) a Value Stream and ART Identification Workshop and thought, “There’s got to be a better way to run this.” There is. And you’ll learn it in one day.
What You’ll Learn and Do
This is not a lecture. It’s a live simulation experience, designed to help Agile leaders:
- Simulate a value stream in real time—no weeks of prep required
- Defuse political tension with anonymized scoring and structured facilitation
- Model the financial impact of proposed improvements—in the room, not as a follow-up
- Align cross-functional teams fast by visualizing flow and friction together
- Build repeatable confidence to lead high-stakes sessions anywhere in the enterprise
Plus, you’ll leave with a toolkit to use immediately, backed by One-year access to nVeris, the AI-powered value stream mapping platform behind the session.
Who This Master Class Is For
If your role involves facilitation, transformation, or coaching inside a SAFe enterprise, this session was built for you:
- Agile Coaches & SPCs
- LACE, CoE, and Transformation Office leads
- PMO and VMO leaders
Whether you’ve run dozens of workshops or are about to lead your first, this class gives you the framework, language, and tools to show up with credibility and drive real change.
Turn Insight Into Action
The 2025 State of SAFe Report articulates a real problem. But the gap in value stream & ART identification does not have to be permanent.
With the right tools, structure, and simulation in hand, it’s possible to go from alignment theory to alignment reality in a single session.
Before the Summit begins, give yourself a powerful advantage.
Add the Master Class to your SAFe Summit registration today.
If you have already registered and want to add this session, you can go back to your registration and modify it, or you can email us at summit.registration@scaledagile.com, and we will be happy to help you.
About the Author:
Hannah Bink is a tenacious, energetic marketing professional with a strong B2B marketing and research background. She is currently the Vice President of Marketing at nVeris, a Scaled Agile Partner.