dual operating system
We need a ______________________ for Business Agility.
Full Configuration
represents the most comprehensive configuration.
... [Show More] It supports building large, integrated solutions that typically require hundreds of people or more to develop and maintain. Focus on lean budgeting. Portfolio + Large Solution + Essential
Large Solution Configuration
for enterprises that are building large and complex solutions, which do not require the constructs of the portfolio level. + Essential
Portfolio Configuration
provides portfolio strategy and investment funding. Agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance. Usually used by C-Suite and CEO level. + Essential
Essential Configuration
the most basic configuration of the framework and it provides the minimal elements necessary to be successful with SAFe.
Seven Core Competencies of Business Agilty
1. Enterprise Solution Delivery
2. Agile Product Delivery
3. Team and Technical Agility
4. Lean Portfolio Management
5. Organizational Agility
6. Continuous Learning Culture
7. Lean-Agile Leadership
Definition of Done
Acceptance criteria; part of working agreement.
"Everything our team goes through from beginning to releasable."
Three Aspects of Team and Technical Agility
1. Agile Teams
2. Built-In Quality
3. Teams of Agile Teams
Team and Technical Agility
describes the critical skills and lean-agile principles and practices that high-performing agile teams and teams of agile teams use to create high-quality solutions for their customers
3 aspects of Agile Product Delivery
1. Customer Centricity
2. Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand
3. DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
Agile product delivery
customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users
3 aspects of enterprise solution delivery
1. Lean System and Solution Engineering
2. Coordinating Trains and Suppliers
3. Continually Evolve Live Systems
Enterprise Solution Delivery
describes how to apply lean-agile principles and practices to specification, development, deployment, operation, and evolution of the world's largest most sophisticated software applications, networks, and cyber-physical systems.
Takes place at the Large Solution layer.
Lean Portfolio Management
aligns strategy and execution by applying Lean- and systems- thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding Agile portfolio operations, and governance.
3 aspects of lean portfolio management
1. lean governance
2. strategy and investment funding
3. agile portfolio operations
Organizational Agility
describes how lean-thinking people and agile teams optimize their business process, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on new opportunities
3 aspects of organizational agility
1. lean thinking people and agile teams
2. strategy agility
3. lean business operations
Continuous learning culture
describes a set of values and practices that encourage individuals, and the enterprise as a whole, to continually increase knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation
3 aspects of continuous learning culture
1. learning organization
2. relentless improvement
3. innovation culture
ways to develop learning organizations
1. personal mastery
2. shared vision
3. systems thinking
4. team learning
5. mental models
ways to help relentless improvement
1. constant state of danger
2. optimize the whole
3. problem solving culture
4. reflect key milestones
5. fact-based improvement
ways to create an innovation culture
1. innovative people
2. time and space
3. go see
4. experimentation and feedback
5. pivot without mercy or guilt
6. innovation riptides
Lean-Agile leadership
describes how lean-agile leaders drive and sustain organizational change and operational excellence by empowering individuals and teams to reach their highest potential
3 aspects of lean agile leadership
1. mindset and principles
2. leading by example
3. leading change
leading by example
1. authenticity
2. decentralized decision making
3. emotional intelligence
4. lifelong learning
5. growing others
leading change
1. change vision
2. change leadership
3. condition for change
4. psychological safety
5. training
psychological safety
most important aspect of leading change
measure and grow
the way portfolios evaluate their progress towards Business Agility and determine their next improvement steps
SAFe core values
what is the whole point of SAFe?
4 SAFe Core Values
1. Alignment
2. Transparency
3. Built-In Quality
4. Program Execution
SAFe House of Lean
Leadership
What is the basis of the house of Lean?
Value
(House of Lean)
Achieve the shortest sustainable lead time
best quality and value to people and society
high morale, safety, and customer delight
Respect for People and Culture
(House of Lean)
Your customer is whoever consumes your work
generative culture
people do all the work
build long term partnerships based on trust
to change the culture, you have to change the organization
Flow
(House of Lean)
getting feedback/reviews faster & sooner
Build-In Quality
Move from projects to products
optimize sustainable value delivery
understand, exploit, and manage variability
Innovation
(House of Lean)
experimentation and feedback
innovative people
provide time and space for innovation
go see
innovation riptides
pivot w/o mercy or guilt
Relentless improvement
(House of Lean)
optimize the whole
constant sense of danger
problem-solving culture
base improvements on facts
reflect at key milestones
Leadership
(House of Lean)
adopt a growth mindset
lead by example
exemplify the values and principles of Lean-Agile and SAFe
develop people
lead the change
foster psychological safety
2001
when was the agile manifesto created?
Individuals and interactions
(Agile Manifesto)
_________________ over processes and tools
Working software
(Agile Manifesto)
_____________________ over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration
(Agile Manifesto)
_________________ over contract negotiation
Responding to change
(Agile Manifesto)
____________________ over following a plan
Parallel delivery
Which delivery accelerates value delivery? Serial or Parallel?
sunk cost
a cost that has already been paid and cannot be recovered. money already spent
Solution Economic Trade-Offs
"If it's going to cost you more to delay, do it now" (cost does not always have to be money)
if you only quantify one thing, quantify the cost of delay
do not consider money already spent
make economic choices continuously
sequence jobs for maximum benefit
ex: COVID-19. Remote workers needing VPNs to access the network, but company did not establish VPNs for everyone while they were in the office.
attributes of systems thinking
optimizing a component does not optimize the system
a system can evolve no faster than its slowest integration point
the value of a system passes through its interconnections
for a system to behave well as a system, a higher-level understanding of behavior and architecture is required
set based design
a practice that keeps requirements and design options flexible for as long as possible during the development process.
Instead of choosing a single point solution upfront, this identifies and simultaneously explores multiple options, eliminating poorer choices over time.
It enhances flexibility in the design process by committing to technical solutions only after validating assumptions, which produces better economic results. [Show Less]