SAFe as an Operating System for Business Agility

Question 1

What is business agility?

Answer 1

The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative, digitally-enabled business solutions.

Question 2

What is the business agility value stream?

Answer 2

It’s the steps needed to quickly produce a solution to take advantage of an emerging business opportunity.

Question 3

What are the steps of the BAVS?

Answer 3

1) Sense Opportunity
2) Fund MVP
3) Organize around value
4) Connect to the customer
5) Deliver MVP
6) Pivot or Persevere
7) Deliver value continuously
8) Learn and adapt

Question 4

What core competency is needed in order to sense a business opportunity?

Answer 4

Organizational Agility

Question 5

What core competency is needed in order to Fund the MVP?

Answer 5

Lean Portfolio Management

Question 6

What core competencies are needed to Organize Around Value?

Answer 6

Team and Technical Agility

Question 7

What core competency is needed to Connect to the Customer?

Answer 7

Agile Product Delivery

Question 8

What core competency is needed to Deliver MVP?

Answer 8

Agile Product Delivery or Enterprise Solution Delivery depending on the scope.

Question 9

What core competency is needed to Pivot or Persevere

Answer 9

Lean Portfolio Management

Question 10

What core competency is needed to Deliver Value Continuously?

Answer 10

Agile Product Delivery or Enterprise Solution Delivery depending on scope.

Question 11

What core competency is needed to Learn and Adapt?

Answer 11

Continuous Learning Culture

Question 12

How is the BAVS enabled?

Answer 12

Lean-Agile Leadership

Question 13

How do you measure the BAVS?

Answer 13

1) Flow metrics
2) Outcomes metrics
3) Competency measures

Question 14

What are flow metrics?

Answer 14

They help determine how fast the value stream creates and delivers value represented by flow distribution, velocity, time, load, efficiency, and predictability.

Question 15

What are Outcome metrics?

Answer 15

They help ensure the solution delivered benefits the customer and the business using Value Stream KPIs.

Question 16

What are competency metrics?

Answer 16

Evaluate organizational proficiency on two levels:

1) The SAFe Business Agility Assessment offers business and portfolio stakeholders a way to assess their overall progress.

2) The individual SAFe Core Competency Assessments help teams and ARTs improve their technical and business practices to achieve the portfolio’s goal.