Related webinar seriesRelated webinar sessionsWebinar descriptionSAFe® has been used successfully by many companies in many industries. Success depends upon properly configuring it to work within your organization. This requires a deep understanding of SAFe as well as experience in implementing it in multiple situations. This series begins with an explanation of the issues that must be managed when transforming to Agile at scale. Later sessions explore particular issues in configuring SAFe that go beyond what is provided in standard SAFe courses. Here are the sessions.
Going beyond SAFe Essentials: The rationale of SAFe®April 11, 2017 This talk discusses what must be attended to in order to transform to Agile at scale successfully as well as how SAFe attends to these issues. Agile at the team level is quite different from Agile at the program or higher levels. Forming effective Agile teams solves a different set of problems than those required to have teams work together effectively. This is why many companies who start with team-level Agile often do not achieve the results they were looking for. Program and portfolio level issues require more than effective Agile teams. This talk addresses the four key issues of effective Agile adoption at scale:
If your organization is starting at the program level with Essential SAFe, this talk will provide insights into how programs can better work together. If your organization has already adopted SAFe at either the program or portfolio level, this talk will provide insights into how to tune it for your organization to achieve even greater results. Resources mentioned in the webinarHere are resources mentioned during the webinar.
The importance of right-sized epicsApril 17, 2017 This might better be called, “How to achieve more value through the proper selection of the work to be done.” One of the key practices of SAFe is a portfolio backlog that limits the number of items hitting the programs. SAFe focuses on sequencing these items based on “Weighted Shortest Job First” (WSJF) which accounts for the size of the work and its value. This encourages having smaller chunks of value in the backlog. Right-sizing epics that are being considered for the program backlog is a key practice of SAFe. This talk discusses why this is so important as well as how to break epics up into right-sized pieces. It presents these practices from a business perspective and illustrates how this perspective can help align the development part of the value stream when an epic cuts across multiple programs in a portfolio. Resources mentioned in the webinarHere are resources mentioned during the webinar
Blending Kanban and ScrumMay 04, 2017 Respecting people is a foundational element of Agile. People are not interchangeable. It is not always possible to do cross-training or use generalists in order to achieve cross-functional teams. No matter how you cut it, you will always have a few people whose unique skills represent bottlenecks for multiple value streams. This does not fit well into standard Scrum or Kanban models. This talk describes how to blend Scrum and Kanban to provide an effective, efficient, method of optimizing around these constraints so that there is less of an impact to your value delivery. Resources mentioned in the webinarHere are resources mentioned during the webinar
Built-in Quality with Test-FirstMay 9, 2017 Unfortunately, few programs apply it to the extent they should because it looks like a huge investment in order to get a return. Test-First is often thought of as a combination of Acceptance Test-Driven Development providing functional tests and Test-Driven Development providing unit tests. However, the purpose of ATDD and TDD is not primarily testing, but rather:
The mechanics of Test-First are:
By considering both the true purpose of Test First as well as its processes, this talk also provides how staged adoption of Test First is possible, thereby enabling quick returns for relatively low investment This webinar is presented jointly with Richard Knaster of Scaled Agile Inc. Resources mentioned in the webinarHere are resources mentioned during the webinar.
Configuring and fine-tuning Agile Release TrainsMay 23, 2017 When first implementing SAFe, the creation of Agile Release Trains (ARTs) can almost never be optimal. This is not a short-coming of SAFe. Until there is a shift to Lean-flow, most organizations do not have sufficient visibility of the work going on to truly see the constraints embedded in the organization. This talk presents some refinements to creating Agile Release Trains that can be used in their initial formation. It then discusses how to continue these improvements after each program increment. Resources mentioned in the webinarHere are resources mentioned during the webinar
Managing value streams that cut across multiple programsJune 19, 2017 SAFe 4.0 introduced the value stream level. This made explicit what was already a reality for many organizations using SAFe. That is, that work flows across different programs and that teams are being directed to do work that comes from more than one business owner. Unfortunately, many people adopting SAFe have somewhat ignored this level. Although managing dependencies discovered in the program increment planning event is a good first cut at solving this problem, this talk discusses how the insights from the earlier sessions can be used to further eliminate delays in workflow – both lowering waste and quickening delivery of business value. Resources mentioned in the webinarHere are resources mentioned during the webinar
Leadership and management in SAFeJune 27, 2017 Lean-Leadership is a foundation of SAFe and is based on the belief that middle management is critical. SAFe quotes Deming: A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves, components become selfish, independent profit centers and thus destroy the system. The secret is cooperation between components toward the aim of the organization. This talk describes the purposes of leadership and management and how they create the environment within which teams can work autonomously and efficiently to manifest the strategy of the organization. Resources mentioned in the webinarHere are resources mentioned during the webinar
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