Intro to SAFe Flashcards

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What is SAFe for Lean Enterprises?

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A knowledge base of proven, intergrated principles, practices, and compentencies for Lean, Agile, and DevOps.

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Configurations of Framework

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Full Configuration

Team; Program; Large Solution; Portfolio

Essential Configuration

Team; Program

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Five Core Competencies

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Lean Agile Leadership

Team and Technical Agility

DevOps and Relase on Demand

Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering

Lean Portfolio Management

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Lean-Agile Leadership Responsibilities

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Exemplify the core values

Embrace a Lean-Agile mindset

Apply the SAFe principles

Lead the transformation

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Team and Technical Agility Responsibilities

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Cross-functional, self organizing teams that define, build, test, and possibly deploy value.

Teams use Kanban and Scrum for team agility

Apply Built-in Quality for Technical Agility

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DevOps and Release on Demand Responsibilities

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Not ALL teams need continously delivery, but ALL need ability to Release on Demand

Provide Culture, Automation, Lean-flow, Measurement, and Recovery to support continuosly delivery

ARTs are teams of agile teams

ARTs are organized around Release on Demand through Continuous Delivery Pipeline; Multiple ARTs make up solution

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Business Solutions & Lean Systems Engineering Responsibilities

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Solution Trains coordinate multiple ARTs and suppliers

Manage frequent integration

Continuously address compliance concerns

Architect for scale, modularity, realse-ability, and serviceability

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Lean Portfolio Management Responsibilities

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Connects portfolio to enterprise strategy

Creates Lean budgets and investments guardrails

Manages portfolio operations

Provides Lean governance across value streams

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SAFe House of Lean

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Value on top

Leadership on bottom

Pillars:

Respect for people and culture

Flow

Innovation

Relentless improvement

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Value

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shortest lead time with:

best quality and value to people and society

high moral, safety, and customer delight

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Leadership

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Lead the change

Know the way

Develop people

Inspire & align with mission; minize contraints

Decentralize decision-making

Unlock motivation of knowledge workers

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Respect for people and culture

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People do all the work

Customer consumes work; don’t overload, make wait, cause wasteful work, impose wishful thining

Build partnerships based on trust

Cultural change comes last

To change culture, must change organization

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Flow

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Optimize continuous throughput of value

Avoid start-stop-start project delays

Build Quality In - Flow requires it

Understand, expolit, and manage variability

Integrate frequently

Informed decision-making via fast feedback

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Innovation

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Producers innovate; customers validate

Get out of the office

Provide space and time for innovation

Apply innovation accounting

Pivot without mercy or guilt

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Relentless Improvement

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A constant sense of danger

Optimize the whole

Consider facts carefully, then act quickley

Apply lean tools to identify and address root causes

Reflect at key milestones; identify shortcomings

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Agile Manifesto

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Individuals and interactions over processess and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan

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SAFe Lean-Agile Principles

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1. Economic view

2. Systems thinking

3. Assume variability; preserve options

4. Build incrementally w/ fast learning cycles

  1. Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
  2. Limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue

7. Cadence; Sync w/ cross-domain planning

8. Unlock motivation of knowledge workers

9. Decentralize decision making

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Learning Cycle

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Plan

Do

Check

Adjust

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Scrum Roles & Events

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Roles:

Development Team; Scrum Master; Product Owner

Events:

Iteration Planning; Daily Stand-up; Iteration Review; Iteration Retrospective

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Kanban

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Visualize work flow. Limit WIP. Improve Flow

21
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XP Practices

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Collective Ownership

Simple Design

Automated Testing

Continous Integration

Test-Driven Development

Coding Standards

Pair Programming

User Stories

Refactoring

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SAFe teams role in ART

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Plan together

Integrate and Demo together

Learn together

23
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Contrast Traditional Development and Agile

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Large groups working on all the requirements delivering value toward end development.

vs.

Small teams working on small batches of requirements delivering value in short timeboxes with frequent intergration and improvement cycles.

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