About Us
CoActivation launched in September 2017 with a team well known both in Australia and abroad for its prominence in the world of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). It was founded by Mark Richards, who has a long list of firsts when it comes to SAFe. He coached the first Australian implementation at Telstra and was one of the first class worldwide to be certified as SAFe Program Consultants when the framework launched in 2012. He went on to become the world’s first SAFe Program Consultant Trainer (SPCT) and co-found the SAFe consultancy Context Matters in 2014, then in 2017 was formally recognised as a SAFe Contributor and became one of the first 4 people outside Scaled Agile Inc to be recognised as a SAFe Fellow worldwide.
In that time, SAFe has become the dominant approach to scaling agile in the industry with over 40 published case studies from organisations such as Phillips, Sony, Cisco, Intel, Lego and John Deere internationally and Telstra, RMIT and Westpac locally.
As a boutique consultancy, CoActivation recognises that an enterprise-level implementation will require collaboration and support from multiple coaching and training providers and effective partnering with major systems integrators. Further, to be sustainable it must build an effective Lean Agile Centre of Excellence (LACE) and internal coaching capabilities. With a motto of “Collaboration over Competition”, our small team of experts contains no member with less than 5 years practical SAFe experience and a primary focus of strategic enablement and alignment of both the enterprise and the providers who support it.
