Leading SAFe Glossary Flashcards
Agile product delivery
Agile product delivery is a customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users.
Agile release train (ART)
The agile release train (ART) is a long-lived team of Agile teams, which, along with other stakeholders, incrementally develops, delivers, and where applicable operates one or more solutions in a value stream.
Agile teams
In SAFe, an agile team is a cross functional group of 5-11 individuals who define, build, test and deliver an increment of value in a short time box.
Architectural runway
The architectural runway consists of the existing code, components, and technical infrastructure needed to implement near term features without excessive redesign and delays.
Built in quality
Built-in quality practices ensure that each solution element, at every increment, meets appropriate quality standards throughout development.
Business agility
Business agility is the ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative business solutions.
Business owners
Business owners are a small group of stakeholders who have the primary business and technical responsibility for governance, compliance, and return on investment (ROI) for a solution developed by an agile release train (ART). They are key stakeholders on the ART who must evaluate fitness for use and actively participate in certain ART events.
Capabilities
A capability is a higher-level solution behavior that typically spans multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs). Capabilities are sized and split into multiple features to facilitate their implementation in a single Program increment (PI).
Communities of practices (CoPs)
Communities of practices (CoPs) are organized groups of people who have a common interest in a specific technical or business domain. They collaborate regularly to share information, improve their skills, and actively work on advancing the general knowledge of the domain.
Compliance
Compliance refers to a strategy and a set of activities and artifacts that allow teams to apply Lean-Agile development methods to build systems that have the highest possible quality, while simultaneously ensuring they meet any regulatory, industry, or other relevant standards.
Continuous delivery pipeline (CDP)
Continuous delivery pipeline (CDP) represents the workflows, activities, and automation needed to shepherd a new piece of functionality from ideation to an on-demand release of value to the end user.
Continuous deployment (CD)
Continuous deployment (CD) is the process that takes validated features in a staging environment and deploys them into the production environment, where they are readied for release.
Continuous exploration (CE)
Continuous exploration (CE) is the process that drives innovation and fosters alignment on what should be built by continually exploring market and customer needs, and defining a vision, roadmap, and a set of features for a solution that addresses those needs.
Continuous integration (CI)
Continuous integration (CI) is the process of taking features from the program backlog and developing, testing, integrating, and validating them in a staging environment where they are ready for deployment and release.
Continuous learning culture
The continuous learning culture competency describes a set of values and practices that encourage individuals-and the enterprise as a whole-to continually increase knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation.
