SAFe: An Introduction to the Scaled Agile Framework
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SAFe is a framework for scaling agile practices in large organizations. It provides templates for roles, workflows, and processes to help structure agile adoptions across multiple teams. While SAFe can help engage leadership and provide a starting point, it also risks becoming a "silver bullet" or just relabeling without changing mindsets. True agility ultimately depends on discipline, experience, and a focus on continuous delivery rather than just following a process.
SAFe: An Introduction to the Scaled Agile Framework
- 1. SAFe A Blueprint for Enterprise Agility by Jared Richardson Principal Consultant Agile Artisans, Inc. Who Am I? 2 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 4 Scaled Agile Framework®
- 2. What is it? Template for enterprise Agile adoptions 6 flickr.com/photos/34316967@N04/5959899467/ Best Face Ready made program Pour your organization Accelerator 7flickr.com/photos/armconprecast/9254928038/ Worst Face Feels Agile No thinking! Rename everything Agile in a can! 8flickr.com/photos/tambako/2361526167
- 3. flickr.com/photos/wwworks/2712985992 Big Picture Terms Roles Flows 9 Workflow 10 Team execution Business vision Themes Portfolio Backlog Stories Epics FeaturesProgram Backlog Team Backlog(s) Workflow Key Concepts Themes => Budget allocation Portfolio backlog (kanban) PSI (Potentially Shippable Increments) PSI => 10 weeks => 5 sprints Release Train Engineer 12
- 4. Story Terms Epics span PSIs Features fit in a PSI Stories fit in a sprint flickr.com/photos/davidyuweb/8051140898 Planning Meeting Sprint Iteration (ship event or usable product) Vision/ Initiatives/ Customers Retrospective Demo Product Owner Daily Meetings Daily Meetings 15 Iteration (ship event or usable product) Workflow Slow Feedback 16 Ship event (beta? alpha?) 6 to 24 month project
- 5. PSI 10 weeks 17 18 19 20
- 6. 21 In Other Words... Scrum of scrums 22 1 2 3 4 5 Scrum teams Scrum of scrums Scrum of scrums of scrums Scrum of Scrums (of scrums!) 24 ...there is nothing new under the sun... Ecclesiastes 1:9flickr.com/photos/drb62/4157075530
- 7. 25flickr.com/photos/gsfc/8705752000 That's okay Different point of view Pros Jump start Understanding -ish Sales tool 26 flickr.com/photos/dansdata/3477743862 27 No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem Gerald Weinberg Valuable Tool Engage upper management Capture imagination Start the process 28flickr.com/photos/jannem/3312115991
- 8. 29flickr.com/photos/spicuzza/4661202721 Cons We're Agile! 30flickr.com/photos/mbiskoping/5632534293 Cons One size doesn't fit all 31 flickr.com/photos/pfig/31265220 Cons Silver bullet syndrome 32flickr.com/photos/eschipul/4160817135
- 9. Agile's Hard Discipline Hard work Experience 33flickr.com/photos/tamaranai/514501365 agilemanifesto.org agilemanifesto.org 36
- 10. flickr.com/photos/npobre/2601582256/ flickr.com/photos/ladybeames/2896787167/ Two Choices Lead 38flickr.com/photos/gregoryjordan/4638164288 Follow Own the Message 39 SAFe Process Smells 40
- 11. Big Work Focus on PSI delivery Sprints lose meaning Small increments of work? 41flickr.com/photos/chris_gin/3160469422 Wrong Focus Metrics Velocity Team organization Working software? 42 Technical Practices AWOL Lots of organization No tests No continuous integration Regular delivery of crap? 43 Relabeling Change the labels Change the org chart Wallpapered waterfall Changed mindsets? 44
- 12. 45 Travel through, not to... flickr.com/photos/infomatique/6839570706 An Exercise for the Reader... Grab a pad paper Write 3 reasons SAFe could help you Write 3 impediments to SAFe use Move to someone you don't work with Brainstorm on each other's impediments 46