Intro to SAFe Flashcards
What is SAFe for Lean Enterprises?
A knowledge base of proven, intergrated principles, practices, and compentencies for Lean, Agile, and DevOps.
Configurations of Framework
Full Configuration
Team; Program; Large Solution; Portfolio
Essential Configuration
Team; Program
Five Core Competencies
Lean Agile Leadership
Team and Technical Agility
DevOps and Relase on Demand
Business Solutions and Lean Systems Engineering
Lean Portfolio Management
Lean-Agile Leadership Responsibilities
Exemplify the core values
Embrace a Lean-Agile mindset
Apply the SAFe principles
Lead the transformation
Team and Technical Agility Responsibilities
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
DevOps and Release on Demand Responsibilities
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
Business Solutions & Lean Systems Engineering Responsibilities
Solution Trains coordinate multiple ARTs and suppliers
Manage frequent integration
Continuously address compliance concerns
Architect for scale, modularity, realse-ability, and serviceability
Lean Portfolio Management Responsibilities
Connects portfolio to enterprise strategy
Creates Lean budgets and investments guardrails
Manages portfolio operations
Provides Lean governance across value streams
SAFe House of Lean
Value on top
Leadership on bottom
Pillars:
Respect for people and culture
Flow
Innovation
Relentless improvement
Value
shortest lead time with:
best quality and value to people and society
high moral, safety, and customer delight
Leadership
Lead the change
Know the way
Develop people
Inspire & align with mission; minize contraints
Decentralize decision-making
Unlock motivation of knowledge workers
Respect for people and culture
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
Flow
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
Innovation
Producers innovate; customers validate
Get out of the office
Provide space and time for innovation
Apply innovation accounting
Pivot without mercy or guilt
Relentless Improvement
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