SAFe Flashcards
Principles of Lean Thinking
- Precisely specify value by product
- Identify the value stream for each product
- Make value flow without interruptions
- Let the customer pull value from the producer
- Pursue perfection
7 core competencies of business agility
- Enterprise solution delivery
- Agile product delivery
- Teams and technical agility
- Lean portfolio management
- Organisational agility
- Continuous learning culture
- Lean-agile leadership
SAFe Core Values
- Transparency
- Alignment
- Relentless improvement
- Respect for people
SAFe Lean-Agile Principles
- Take an economic view
- Apply Systems thinking
- Assume variability, preserve options
- Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles*
- Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems*
- Make value flow without interruptions*
- Apply cadence, synchronise with cross-domain planning*
- Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
- Decentralise decision-making
- Organise around value*
Scrum Master / Team Coach duties
- Facilitates PI Planning
- Supports Interation Execution
- Improves Flow
- Builds a high-performing team
- Improves ART performance
Product owner duties
- Connects with customer
- Contributes to the vision and roadmap
- Manages and prioritises the Team Backlog
- Supports the team in Delivering Values
- Gets and applies Fast Feedback
SAFe Scrum benefits
- Great for new technology Solution teams
- Provides known methods for team alignment via scrum events
- Creates shared team commitment to timeboxed goals
SAFe Team Kanban benefits
- Great for new business Solutions teams
- Provides daily ability to react to changing demands
- Creates priority alignment and next to pull backlog
Agile Release Train (ART)
- A virtual organisation of 5-12 teams (50-125+ individuals)
- Synchronised on a common cadence, a Planning Interval (PI)
- Aligned to a common mission via a single ART Backlog
SM/TC responsibilities
- Facilitating PI Planning
- Supporting Interation Execution
- Improving Flow
- Building High-Performing Teams
- Improving ART performance
Agile Release Train (ART):
Continuous Delivery Pipeline
- Continuous Exploration (deliver value in line with business requirements, emphasizes understading the needs of the customer)
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Deployment
Release on Demand
Roles on the ART
- Release Train Engineer (RTE) (chief coach for the train)
- System Architect (provides architectural guidenace)
- Business Owner (Key stakeholders)
- Product Management (owns, defines and prioritises ART backlog)
- System team (provides processes and tools to integrate and evaluate assets early and often)
Reponsibilities of the ART
- Connecting with customer
- Planning the work
- Delivering value
- Getting Feedback
- Improving relentlessly
PO responsibilities
- Connecting with the customer
- Contributing to the value and roadmap
- Managing and Priortising the team backlog
- Supporting the Team in delivering value
- Getting and applying feedback
Design thinking
A customer-centic development process
- Problem Space > understand the problem
- Solution space > design the right solution
Leads to outcome which is:
* Desirable
* Viable
* Feasible
* Sustainable
Roadmaps
- Daily plan - 1 day
- Iteration plan - 1-2 weeks
- Current plan - 8-12 weeks
- PI roadmap - 1-3 PIs
- Solution roadmap - typically 1-3+ years
INVEST
User story
I - independant
N- negotiable
V- valuable
E- estimable
S- small
T - testable
Backlog refinement
- Helps the team turn new hypotheses into User Stories
- Allows teams to consider recent learning before Iteration Planning or in preparation for PI planning
- May occur daily throughout the interaction or at a longer event on a cadence
- Improves stories, adds acceptance criteria, and identifies missing information
- Leverages the teams collective knowledge and creativity
- Creates joint buy-in and ownership
Benefits of PI planning
- Establishes personal communication across all team members and stakeholders
- Aligns development of business goals with the business context, Vision and Team/ART PI objectives
- Identifies dependancies and fosters cross-team and cross-ART collaboration
- Provides opportunity for right amount of architecture and LEAN UX guidance
- Matches demand to capacity, eliminating excess work in process (WIP)
- Allows for faster decision-making
Acronyms
IP = Innovation & Planning
PI = Planning Interval
I&A = Inspect & Adapt
ART PI risk - ROAM
Resolved
Owned
Accepted
Mitigated
Final Plan Review Agenda
- Changes to capacity and load
- Final PI objectives and business value
- PI Risks and impediments
- Q&A session