SAFeA Blueprint for Enterprise Agility

by Jared RichardsonPrincipal ConsultantAgile Artisans, Inc.

Who Am I?

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Jared Richardson

CoAuthored Ship It! and Career 2.0

Screencast editor for PragProg.com

Started AgileRTP in 2007

2nd public signatory of the Agile Manifesto

Agile coach

AgileArtisans.com

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Scaled Agile Framework®

What is it?

Template for enterprise

Agile adoptions

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Best Face

Ready made programPour your organizationAccelerator

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Worst Face

Feels AgileNo thinking!

Rename everythingAgile in a can!

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Big Picture

Terms Roles Flows

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Workflow

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Team execution

Business vision

Themes

PortfolioBacklog

Stories

Epics

FeaturesProgramBacklog

TeamBacklog(s)

Workflow Key ConceptsThemes => Budget allocationPortfolio backlog (kanban)PSI (Potentially Shippable Increments)PSI => 10 weeks => 5 sprints Release Train Engineer

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Story Terms

Epics span PSIsFeatures fit in a PSIStories fit in a sprint

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Planning Meeting

Sprint

Iteration(ship eventor usableproduct)

Vision/Initiatives/Customers

Retrospective

Demo

ProductOwner

DailyMeetings Daily

Meetings

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Iteration(ship eventor usableproduct)

Workflow Slow Feedback

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Ship event(beta? alpha?)

6 to 24 month project

PSI

10 weeks

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In Other Words...

Scrum of scrums

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Scrum teams

Scrum of scrums

Scrum of scrums of scrums

Scrum of Scrums (of scrums!)

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      ...there is nothing new under the sun...

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That's okay

Different point of view

Pros

Jump startUnderstanding-ishSales tool

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No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people

problem

Gerald Weinberg

Valuable Tool

Engage upper managementCapture imaginationStart the process

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Cons

We're Agile!

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Cons

One size doesn't fit all

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Cons

Silver bullet syndrome

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Agile's Hard

DisciplineHard workExperience

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Two Choices

Lead

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Follow

Own the Message

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SAFe Process Smells

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Big Work

Focus on PSI deliverySprints lose meaning

Small increments of work?

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Wrong Focus

MetricsVelocity

Team organizationWorking software?

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Technical Practices

AWOLLots of organization

No testsNo continuous integrationRegular delivery of crap?

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Relabeling

Change the labelsChange the org chartWallpapered waterfallChanged mindsets?

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Travel through,not to...

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An Exercise for the Reader...

Grab a pad paperWrite 3 reasons SAFe could help youWrite 3 impediments to SAFe useMove to someone you don't work withBrainstorm on each other's impediments

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