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SAFe® C ourse Attending this course gives students access to the SAFe® D evOps Practitioner exam and rel ated pr eparation materials.
Table of Contents
Privacy Notice.......................................................................... 1
Digital Workbook User Guide................................................... 2
Lesson 1: Introducing DevOps...................................................... 5
1.1 Recognize the problem to be solved.................................. 6
1.2 Explain DevOps and its benefits...................................... 12
1.3 Describe continuous security and testing ........................ 21
1.4 Describe core DevOps principles..................................... 23
Lesson 2: Mapping Your Value Stream ...................................... 33
2.1 Explain the purpose of mapping the Value Stream.......... 34
2.2 Evaluate the efficiency of your current Value Stream ...... 38
Lesson 3: Gaining Alignment with Continuous Exploration......... 49
3.1 Create Solution hypotheses............................................. 54
3.2 Collaborate and research Customer needs ..................... 59
3.3 Architect the Solution for continuous delivery .................. 62
3.4 Synthesize the Vision, the Roadmap, and the
Program Backlog ................................................................... 66
Lesson 4: Building Quality In with Continuous Integration .......... 73
4.1 Develop the Solution........................................................ 78
4.2 Build continuously............................................................ 83
4.3 Test end-to-end ............................................................... 87
4.4 Validate on a staging environment................................... 91
Lesson 5: Reducing Time-to-Market with Continuous
Deployment ................................................................ 97
5.1 Deploy to production...................................................... 102
5.2 Verify the Solution.......................................................... 107

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5.3 Monitor for problems ......................................................109
5.4 Respond and recover.....................................................113
Lesson 6: Delivering Business Value with Release on
Demand....................................................................125
6.1 Release on Demand ......................................................130
6.2 Stabilize the Solution......................................................132
6.3 Measure the business value ..........................................135
6.4 Learn and react..............................................................137
Lesson 7: Taking Action............................................................143
7.1 Share your DevOps action plan .....................................144
Lesson 8: Becoming a SAFe DevOps Practitioner....................155
8.1 Becoming a Certified SAFe Professional .......................156
Glossary ......................................................................................161

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Digital Workbook User Guide
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How can I take notes in my digital workbook?
A: After each lesson, there is a notes page that allows you to type notes directly into
the workbook. Remember to save your workbook to your personal computer to save
any content you may have added.
If you open the digital workbook with a product like Adobe Acrobat, there are
functions that allow you to add your own text boxes, add bookmarks, highlight text,
and add comments. Remember to save your workbook to your personal computer to
save any content you may have added.
Q: What other features are included in the digital workbook?
A: All videos have a hyperlink directly below the slide that will take you to the
correct URL. If you click on assets in the front matter, you will be taken to
ScaledAgileFramework.com resources like the Implementation Roadmap and
course certification pages.
Q: Is my digital workbook saved on the community platform?
A: The original digital workbook file will always be available to you in your Learning
Plan on the SAFe Community Platform. However, any text or content added to your
digital workbook must be saved on your personal computer. Remember to save your
workbook to your personal computer to save any content you may have added.
Q: Can I share my digital workbook with my coworkers?
A: No. You cannot share your digital workbook. It is for personal use only, so you
may not reproduce or distribute it.
Q: Can I print the digital workbook?
A: Yes. You may print the digital workbook for your personal use. The file is in full
color, so if you’d prefer to print the workbook in black and white only, make sure to
adjust your printing preferences.

Notes:
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Logistics
► Course meeting times
► Breaks
► Eliminate distractions
► Ask questions
► Be patient
► Working agreements
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Course goals
At the end of this course you should be able to:
► Describe what DevOps is and why it's
important
► Describe the importance of
continuous testing
► Describe the value of continuous
security
► Map your delivery pipeline
► Measure flow through the delivery
pipeline
► Identify gaps and delays in flow
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► Improve the process of exploring
Customer needs
► Improve the process of developing,
building, and integrating continuously
► Improve the process of deployment to
staging and production environments
continuously
► Improve the release process
► Build an action plan for a SAFe
DevOps transformation

Notes:
Course map
► Lesson 1: Introducing DevOps
► Lesson 2: Mapping Your Value Stream
► Lesson 3: Gaining Alignment with Continuous Exploration
► Lesson 4: Building Quality In with Continuous Integration
► Lesson 5: Reducing Time-to-Market with Continuous Deployment
► Lesson 6: Delivering Business Value with Release on Demand
► Lesson 7: Taking Action
► Lesson 8: Becoming a SAFe DevOps Practitioner
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Lesson 1
Introducing DevOps
Learning Objectives:
1.1 Recognize the problem to be solved
1.2 Explain DevOps and its benefits
1.3 Describe continuous security and testing
1.4 Describe core DevOps principles

1.1 R ecognize the problem to be solved
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Activity: The Beginning
► Step 1: Read the story, "The Beginning" in
your workbook
► Step 2: Summarize the challenges of the
current situation at DynotransX
► Step 3: Discuss as a team:
- What are some of the challenges you face at your
company?
- Do you agree with any of the solutions offered by
Travis and Tracy?
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Create a dedicated on-call team D
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D Find a replacement for Tracy

Welcome to DynotransX , Inc. , a company that specializes in Art lfic lal Intelligence and consumer robot ics. Once
a thriv ing IT organization , DynotransX is now struggling to respond to a rap idly chang ing competitive landscape .
The Deployment and release of new features was a disastrous exper ience for the Developers and IT Operat ions
teams. The Dev team had constant problems with test ing and deployment. The Ops team was too centralized and
struggled to maintain the database , and reconfigurat ions for servers every time a new feature was deployed.
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The Dev and Ops teams are exper renc lng catastroph ic deployments , issues wlth testing , and servers overload ing . As a
result , they are not ab le to del iver new features to the market fast enough .
Thls is Ben, one DynotransX 's business owners . Ben is concerned with the struggles of the company , try lng to
achieve business goals despite constant repr loritizat ion and escalat ion , poor deployment outcomes , and
functionally-or iented siloed teams .

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The problem to be solved
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Video: What is DevOps?
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DevOps defined
DevOps is the combination of cultural philosophies, practices, and
tools that increases an organization's ability to deliver applications
and services at high velocity: evolving and improving products at
a faster pace than organizations using traditional software
development and infrastructure management processes.
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Exploration Integration Deployment on Demand
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The DevOps Health Radar helps synchronize the pipeline
The DevOps Health Radar is the
divided into four quadrants
called aspects. They embody
alignment, quality, speed, and
value. Each aspect contains four
activities which can be used to
assess an organization's
maturity.
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Notes:
Notes:
'But wait, our problems are different'
We aren't building a website.
We aren't hosted in the cloud.
Our customers don't want continuous delivery.
Our technology isn't based on micro services.
We don't have just the one platform.
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Notes:
Video link: https://youtu.be/8s46nFCzbck
Video: DevOps in a legacy world
► As enterprises grow over time,
they inevitably add new
applications and services and
adopt new technology stacks.
Yet, these enterprises still have
to deal with legacy applications
and systems.
► DevOps in the legacy world is
not a mission impossible.
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1.3 D escribe continuous securit y and testing
Notes:
Notes:
1.3 Describecontinuoussecurityand testing
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The role of continuous security
► Information security is a key
concept in SAFe DevOps
► DevSecOps concepts present
key principles for value delivery
► Security affects every aspect of
the continuous delivery cycle
► Information security should be
part of every DevOps
transformation
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Monitoring
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Notes:
The role of continuous testing
► Testing is an ongoing activity
► We build quality in by
addressing testing and quality
throughout the continuous
delivery cycle
► Automated testing and quality
assurance should be part of
every DevOps transformation

1.4 D escribe core D evOps principles
Notes:
Notes:
1.4 Describecore DevOpsprinciples
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► Culture - Establish a culture of shared
responsibility for development ,
deployment , and operations .
► A utomation - Automate the Continuous
Delivery Pipeline.
► !,_ean flow - Keep batch sizes small, limit
WIP,and provide extreme visibility.
► Measurement - Measure the flow through
the pipeline . Implement full-stack
telemetry.
► !3.ecovery -Architect and enable low-risk
releases. Establish fast recovery, fast
reversion, and fast fix-forward.
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Notes:
Notes:
DevOps is a cultural shift
► Adopt a culture of shared
responsibility for development
and deployment
► DevOps requires a tolerance
for failure and rapid recovery
and rewards risk taking
► Sharing discoveries,
practices, tools, and learning
across silos is encouraged
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Automate the deployment process
► Automation is a key concept in
DevOps.
► Automate as much as you can
from the Continuous Delivery
Pipeline; fewer manual steps
improves the flow of value.
► Build a comprehensive toolchain to
help teams release value more
frequently.
► Focus on automating healthy
processes. If the underlying
process is broken, fix it before
automating it.
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Notes:
Focus on continuous Lean flow of value
► Identify bottlenecks to the
flow of value
► Decrease the batch sizes of
the work
► Manage and reduce queue
lengths
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Notes:
Video link: https://youtu.be/JoLHKSE8sfU
Video: One piece flow versus batch
production
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Duration
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31

Notes:
Discussion: Flow
► Step 1: With your team,
considering the flow of work
represented on the diagram,
discuss:
- How do you think the PO for Team 3
feels? How do you think the PO for
Team 1 feels?
- What is a large batch in your context
and how can you improve flow?
► Step 2: Be prepared to share
with the class
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PO Team 1
PO Team 2
PO Team 3
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Notes:
Notes:
Measure everything
► Collect data on business,
application, infrastructure, and
client layers
► Collect data about the
deployment
pipeline itself
► Maintain different telemetry for
different stakeholders
► Broadcast measurements
► Continuously improve telemetry
during and after problem solving
Architect for releasability and recovery
► Adopt a stop-the-line
mentality
► Plan for and rehearse failures
► Build the environment for
both roll-back and fix-forward
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enables low
risk releases
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Notes:
Activity: CALMR
► Step 1: Revisit the CALM R
board
► Step 2: Discuss and
summarize:
- Which CALMR concepts are
strongly represented?
- Which ones are under
represented? Why?
Duration
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Notes:
Lesson review
In this lesson you:
► Recognized the problem to be solved
► Explained DevOps and its benefits
► Described continuous security and testing
► Described core DevOps principles
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Lesson 2
Mapping Your Value Stream
2.1 Explain the purpose of mapping the Value Stream
2.2 Evaluate the efficiency of your current Value Stream

Notes:
Notes:
2.1 Explainthe purposeof mappingthe ValueStream
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Why map the Value Stream?
► Understand how work flows through the organization from concept to cash
► Measure process quality and organizational efficiency
► Identify bottlenecks to the flow of value
► Understand how we can improve the flow of value
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Notes:
Value Stream
Consumer robotics
controllers
Current State
PRODUCTIONWEEKEND
DevOpsTransformationCanvas
Future State
PRODUCTIONWEEKEND
Boundanesand L1m1tations
1. Architect for testability
2. Lean Startup
Improvement Items
1. Feature toggles
2. Lean Startup
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Notes:
Video link: https://vimeo.com/325445925/59913369d4
Video: Value Stream Canvas
1~~
Consumer robotics
controllers
DevOps Transformat,on Canvas
Future State
Business Owners
1. Architectfortestability
2. lean Startup
1. Feature toggles
2. Lean Startup
3. Blue/Green deployment
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Notes:
Activity:Identifythe contextfor Value Stream
mapping
► Step 1: On a flip chart or a whiteboard ,
draw the DevOps Transformation Canvas.
► Step 2: Start filling out the canvas by
identifying which Value Stream to improve.
► Step 3: Identify the the following
components :
Trigger
First Step
Last Step
► Step 4: What is the demand rate?
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2.2 Ev aluate the efficiency of your current Value Stream
Notes:
Notes:
2.2 Evaluatethe efficiencyof yourcurrentValue
Stream
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Production Weekend

Notes:
Value Stream mapping - identify the steps: Customer example
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Notes:
Activity: Visualize the Value Stream
► Step 1: On the current state section of the canvas, model your
existing value stream using sticky notes. Start at the first step and
finish at the last step identified previously.
► Step 2: Identify the role or team responsible for each step.
Duration
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45

Notes:
Activity: Present your team's map ~i)~~
► Step 1: Walk around the room and review other people's maps
- Note: Make sure that at any point there is at least one person to represent
your team's map
► Step 2: Identify items from other maps that you might have missed
at your own map
► Step 3: As a team, adjust your current state map

Notes:
Notes:
Value Stream measurements
PROCESS TIME (PT)
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Actual value-added work
LEAD TIME (LT)
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Time from when work was
ready after the previous
station to completion Percent Complete and Accurate (%C&A) ~
Percent of work that the next station could
process as-is
Value Stream mapping: Measure the steps
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Notes:
Value Stream map: Calculate the total Metrics
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Notes:
Activity: Measure Value Stream efficiency
Duration
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► Step 1: Measure the lead time, process time, and % complete and
accurate for each step
- Hint: Ask people responsible for the next step about the % complete and
accurate of the current step
► Step 2: Calculate the total lead time, total process time, activity
ratio, and rolled % complete and accurate

Notes:
Discussion: Present your Value stream map
► Step 1: As a team, present your board
► Step 2: Address the following questions:
- What is the total lead time? Total process time?
- What is the activity ratio? Rolled % complete and accurate?
- Based on your metrics, where are the biggest bottlenecks?
Duration
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Notes:
Lesson review
In this lesson you:
► Evaluated the efficiency of your current Value Stream
► Explained the purpose of mapping the Value Stream

Lesson 2 notes

Lesson 3
Gaining Alignment with
Continuous Exploration
3.1 Create Solution hypotheses
3.2 Collaborate and research Customer needs
3.3 Architect the Solution for continuous delivery
3.4 Synthesize the Vision, the Roadmap, and the Program Backlog

Notes:
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I x
xao Activity: A Brilliant Idea
► Step 1: Read the story, "A Brilliant Idea"
► Step 2: Form pairs and assume the roles of
Ben (the Business Owner) and Travis (the
lead developer)
► Step 3: From the perspective of the role you
play, defend or challenge the outlined
assumptions
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From the perspective of the role you play, defend or challenge
the statements of your character :
When there is a great idea, it shou ld be D
prioritized immediately
On ly Business Owners decide what work D
needs to be done
D Working on a new feature must start
immediate ly, regardless if it is in the Back log
D There has to be an extensive up -front
definition of the featur e prior to starting work

In the late afternoon , as
Ben was looking at the
numbers on the screen , he
cou ldn't help but wish for one
th ing...
TRAVIS, GET THE TEAM! I HAVE
AN IDEA FOR A NEW FEATURE
FOR THE ROBOT AND WE ARE
READY TO INVEST $1 Mill.ION.
IT'S BRILLIANT AND OUR
CUSTOMERS Will. ABSOW TELY
LOVE IT! NO DOUBT! THE
ROBOT Will. NOT ONLY BE
ABLE TO PLAY TENNIS , BUT
DETECT PHYSICAL OBSTACLES
AND CALCULATE TRAJECTORIES
AND ....... , AND ALSO.... .
TARTING THE DEVE
ATURE FOR THE ROB
RECISION MOVEMEN
TO PLAY TENN IS. B
TENNIS! WE ARE
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Notes:
Continuous Exploration
► Business objective
- Alignment
► IT objective
- Continuous Exploration (CE)
► Activities
- Hypothesize
- Collaborate & Research
- Architect
- Synthesize
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3.1 Creat e Solution hypotheses
Notes:
Notes:
3.1 Create Solutionhypotheses
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Hypothesize
► Purpose: Define the
hypothesis to be validated
through the Continuous
Delivery Pipeline
► Skills:
- Lean startup
- Innovation accounting

Notes:
Lean startup
► The lean startup cycle focuses on
identifying the viability of ideas
► It follows the plan-do-check-adjust cycle
(POCA)
►
►
MVP - establish a baseline to test
assumptions and gather objective data
Evaluate the hypothesis:
- If the benefit hypothesis has been proven
true , the Value Streams will implement more
Features
- If the hypothesis is proven false , then a
decision is made to either pivot with a new
hypothesis or to stop work on the Epic
SAFe Lean Startup Cycle
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Epic
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withadefinedMVPand
businessoutcomehypothesis
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evaluateMVP
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epicinput
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proven?
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Developmentcontinues
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untilWSJF
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Pivot?
No
-Developmentstops
Epicstate:Done

Notes:
Video link: https://vimeo.com/332677950/751f8b51dd
Video: Innovation Accounting
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Notes:
Notes:
Innovationaccounting
► New productsand new Featuresare hardto
measure bytraditionalaccountingstandards
► When definingan MVP, it is importantto use
Metricsthat willvalidateitssuccessor failure
► It is importantto focuson Metricsthat
demonstratereal customerengagementand
noton vanity Metrics
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Duration
Self-assessment:Hypothesizeactivity ~
~
Ideas are vague or not defined.
Ideas are defined (e.g., as Epics) but do not include
hypothesis statements.
Some ideas are expressed as hypothesis statements with
measurable outcomes.
Most ideas are expressed as hypothesis statements with
measurable outcomes and include MVPs.
All ideas are expressed as hypothesis statements with
measurable outcomes and include MVPs.
Read the table and place a dot
on your DevOps Radar.
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3.2 Collaborat e and research Customer needs
Notes:
Notes:
3.2 Collaborateand researchCustomerneeds
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Collaborate & Research
► Purpose: Work with multiple
stakeholders to understand
Customer needs
► Skills:
- Lean UX
- Research

Notes:
Notes:
Lean UX
► Lean User Experience (Lean UX) is a mindset, culture, and process that
implements functionality in minimum viable increments and determines
success by measuring results against a benefit hypothesis
► Features must be broken into minimal marketable features-the
minimum functionality that the teams can build to learn whether the
benefit hypothesis is valid or not
Research
► Design Thinking - Explore the problem and solution
spaces using personas, journey maps , empathy maps, and
other Agile Product Management techniques .
► Customer visits and Gemba walks -A Gemba walk
('Gemba ' is the place where the work is performed) can be
used by developers to observe how internal stakeholders
execute the steps and specific activities in their operational
Value Streams .
► Elicitation - There are a variety of structured elicitation
techniques that can be used, such as interviews , surveys,
competitive analyses, requirements workshops , and use-
case modeling .
► Trade studies - Teams engage in trade studies to
determine the most practical characteristics of a Solution.
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Notes:
Self-assessment: Research activity
Product Management roles and responsibilities are not defined
or followed .
-
Product Management creates requirements in large batches with
little Customer or development collaboration .
-
Product Management collaborates with business or development
experts, but not both, when defining requirements .
Product Management regularly collaborates with business ,
development , and operation experts but does not define
minimum marketable features .
Product Management always collaborates with business-side ,
development-side , and operation-side experts and defines
minimum marketable features .
Duration
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3.3 Archit ect the Solution for continuous delivery
Notes:
Notes:
3.3 Architectthe Solutionfor continuousdelivery
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Architect
► Purpose: Architect for
continuous delivery and
DevOps
► Skills:
- Architect for testability
- Separate deploy and release
- Decouple release elements
- Architect for operations
- Threat modeling
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Notes:
Notes:
Architect for testability
► Systems that can't readily be tested can't readily be
changed
► In a system that is designed for testability, all jobs
require less time
► Patterns that can accelerate value flow:
- Domain Driven Design (ODD)
- Loose coupling and APl-driven architecture
-Cloud-native architecture
- Microservices and containerization
- Serverless architecture
- Strangler pattern
Separate deploy from release
► Separate deploy to production from release
► Hide all new functionality under feature toggles
► Enable the ability to deploy and verify in
production and Release on Demand
Test I
•System
Arch/Eng
Deploy
Release
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Notes:
Notes:
Decouple release elements
► Different parts of the Solution require different release strategies
► Architect the Solution to enable the various strategies and to shift them
over time based on business demand
End-user functionality
(released every 2 weeks)
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(released on demand)J-----t-- Streamlet2 -~-- 4ilfo----- Gl-ot--_.,1.,;;;;;;;=--..
Streamlet 3 --+--- ---4~ - -V - ----lif- - 0- ~ Back-office functionality
Streamlet 4 (released every month)
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Architect for operations
► Take the operational needs into account
► Build telemetry and logging Capabilities into
every application and into the Solution as a
whole
► Allow services to be downgraded or even
removed in times of high loads or in response
to incidents
► Build Capabilities for fast recovery and for fix-
forward
(major release
every quarter)
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Notes:
Notes:
Threat modeling
► Informationsecurityconsiderationsshould
startearly
► Identifypotentialsecuritythreatsand attack
vectors
► Architectto addresssecurityconcerns
► Ensurebacklogsreflectimportantsecurity
requirements
Self-assessment:Architectactivity
Architecture is monolithic and fragile ; it is difficult to change and
involves managing complex dependencies across many
components and systems .
-
Architecture is predominantly monolithic but some
applications /systems are loosely coupled .
-
Architecture is mostly decoupled but doesn't allow Release on
Demand .
-
Architecture is aligned around value delivery with few
dependencies across components and systems .
- Architecture is built for Release on Demand and operability .
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3.4 Synthesize the Vision, the Roadmap, and the Program B acklog
Notes:
Notes:
3.4 Synthesize the Vision, the Roadmap, and the
Program Backlog
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Synthesize
► Purpose: Synthesize the
hypotheses, research,
collaboration, and architecture
into a Vision, Roadmap, and
backlog. Gain alignment with Pl
Planning.
► Skills:
- Feature writing
- Behavior-driven development
(BOD)
- Economic prioritization
- Pl Planning

Notes:
Notes:
Feature writing
► Feature is an industry-standard term
familiar to marketing and Product
Management
► Benefit hypothesis justifies feature
implementation cost and provides
business perspective when making
scope decisions
► Acceptance criteria are typically
defined during program backlog
refinement
► Reflects functional and nonfunctional
requirements (NFRs)
► Fits in one Program Increment
Behavior-driven development (BOD)
SSO example:
Cruise Control
& Speed Finder
~
Benefit hypothesis
Cruise control and speed finder will
allow us to sell 50% more cars
Acceptance criteria
Given Vehicle is traveling with cruise control
at the posted speed limit
When a new speed limit is detected
Then vehicle automatically adjusts to the
new speed limit
► Behavior-driven development is a test-first
approach to writing requirements
► Gherkin syntax (Given-When-Then) is
commonly used
► Permits building executable specifications
► Acceptance criteria become executable
tests
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When ___ _
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Notes:
Notes:
Economic prioritization
► In a flow system, job sequencing is the key to economic outcomes.
► Give preference to jobs with shorter duration and higher cost of delay (CoD)
using weighted shortest job first (WSJF)
► WSJF provides a way of understanding the cost of delay and focusing on
items that provide the best cost of delay reduction in the shortest time
Pl Planning
WSJF
Cost of Delay
Job Duration
(Job size)
Program Increment (Pl) Planning is a cadence-based, face-to-face
event that serves as the heartbeat of the Agile Release Train (ART),
aligning all the teams on the ART to a shared mission and Vision.
Pl Planning
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Notes:
Self-assessment: Synthesize
The Program Backlog does not exist or is not shared .
The Program Backlog exists, but the Features are
incomplete and prioritization is an afterthought.
The Program Backlog contains fully defined Features but
are not prioritized using WSJF.
Features in the Program Backlog are complete , prioritized
using WSJF and matched to the delivery capacity of the
ART.
The Program Backlog is a collection of minimum
marketable features created using BOD and prioritized
using WSJF.
Duration
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Notes:
Activity: Apply Continuous Exploration to
your Value Stream
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► Step 1: Identify the skills in this lesson
that would improve flow in your Value
Stream between idea capture and
ready to code. Write each on a star-
shaped sticky note.
► Step 2: Construct a new view of this
part of the Value Stream in the Future
State portion of the DevOps
Transformation Canvas. (Reuse,
reorder, or replace steps as desired.)
► Step 3: Place the stars on the steps
they would enable and provide new
process time, lead time , and %C&A for
each step.
Example
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LT: 4h LT. 700h LT: 8h
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Notes:
Lesson review
In this lesson you:
► Explored how to create Solution hypotheses
► Discussed how to collaborate and research Customer needs
► Explored how to architect the Solution for continuous delivery
► Explored how to synthesize the Vision, the Roadmap, and the
Program Backlog

Lesson 3 notes

Lesson 4
Building Quality In with
Continuous Integration
4.1 Develop the Solution
4.2 Build continuously
4.3 Test end-to-end
4.4 Validate on a staging environment

Notes:
Activity: Continuous Problems
► Step 1: Read the story, "Continuous
Problems."
► Step 2: In your group, discuss common
challenges with Continuous Integration (Cl).
► Step 3: In one statement, summarize the
biggest challenge with Cl in your own context.
- Do you share similar Cl challenges with other
members in your group?
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Summarize the biggest challenge with Cl in your own context:
Do you share similar Cl challenges with other members in your group?
Are any of the options below, possible solutions towards Cl?
D Frequent code commits, larger batch sizes
D Less frequent code commits, small batches
D Establish gated commits
D Adopt trunk-based deve lopmen t to predic t
higher throug hput

As Travis was walking to work this morning, he was feeling unusuallyexcited . For months, he had been coding
the feature that wouldallow precision movementsfor the top-sell ing robot. Today, he wasabout to commit all
the code changes into the mainline, anticipating zero errors. There wasonly one gray cloud hanging over him -
the prospects of gett ing another call from Tracy...
Developers on Travis's team have a
tradition of spending long hours working
in isolation in their branches. That made
it more difficult to integrate and merge
everyone's changes back into the
trunk.
Ben was troubled too. Develop ing on
several branc::hesin parallel c::aused
c::ont inuous demand for support and bug
f ixes. The release of the new feat ure
enabling the robot to play ten nis kept
gett ing postpo ned...
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Notes:
Continuous Integration
- Built-in quality
► IT objective
- Continuous Integration (Cl)
► Activities
- Develop
- Build
- Test end-to-end
- Stage
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4.1 D evelop the Solution
Notes:
Notes:
4.1 Developthe Solution
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Develop
► Purpose: Implement a Story or a
part of a Story and commit the
code
► Skills:
- Break Features into Stories
- Test-driven development
- Version control
- Engineering practices
- Pair work
- Application telemetry
- Threat modeling (covered in Architect)
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Notes:
Notes:
Break Features into Stories within their boundaries
Techniques for splitting Features and Stories, Pl and Iteration respectively.
1. Workflow steps 6. Data methods
2. Business rule variations 7. Defer system qualities
3. Major effort 8. Operations
4. Simple/complex 9. Use-case scenarios
5. Variations in data 1o.Break out a spike
Test-driven development (TDD)
i@IMITest passes
Write Test
Test fails
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Notes:
Notes:
Version control
► Maintain all assets under version control
from requirements, to code, to
configuration, to tests, and test data
► Establish clear check-in and check-out
procedures
► Version control improves traceability for
automating compliance
Agile Software Engineering
► Modern engineering practices boost speed
and quality. They include:
- Test-first mindset
- Agile modeling
- Emergent design
- Pattern-based coding
- Code reviews
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Notes:
Notes:
Pair work
► Pair work improves system quality,
design decisions, knowledge
sharing, and team velocity.
► Pair work:
- Is a collaborative effort of any two team
members : dev/dev, dev/PO , dev/tester,
etc.
- Is broader and less constraining than
pair programming
- Typically represents 20% to 80% of
any given team member 's time
- Can be spontaneous , scheduled , or
performed on rotation
Application telemetry
:.
Implement the
interfaces . Try to
integrate.
Code the logic.
Try to integrate .
Define any
interfaces
Resolve integration
conflicts . Plan for first
cut of logic.
Example user story implementation flow
Enables faster identification of problems from production incidents:
► Telemetry should cover all levels of the code from methods, to
components, to services, to the entire application
► Application design must take into account operational health
telemetry
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► Features must include the ability to measure the benefit hypothesis
against both leading and trailing indicators
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Notes:
Self-assessment: Develop
-
The Team Backlog does not exist or is not used to manage daily
work .
-
Stories are either incomplete or too verbose ; unit tests are
generally not written ; peer reviews are not conducted .
-
Stories are complete ;most changes have unit tests ; peer
reviews are usually conducted .
-
Code is checked in daily ; unit test coverage is 80+% ; peer
reviews are always conducted .
Code is checked in multiple times per day; tests are written
before code (TDD); pair work and other Built-in Quality
practices are the norm .
Duration
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Notes:
Notes:
4.2 Buildcontinuously
SCALED AGILE ·
Build activity
► Purpose: Compile source files
into deployable binaries, verify
that code functions as the
developer(s) intended, and
merge dev branches to trunk
► Skills:
- Continuous code integration
- Build and test automation
- Trunk-based development
- Gated comm it
- Application security

Notes:
Notes:
Continuous code integration
Develop Commit
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Build and test automation
► Initiate a build often, preferably on every
commit
► Run unit tests as part of the build
► Run static code analysis as part of the build
► Visualize and monitor the build and test
process
► Report failures immediately
► Broken builds are the highest priority
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Notes:
Notes:
Trunk-based development
► Single trunk/main
for all teams
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► Avoid multiple
open branches
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Gated commit
► Gated commits ensure that broken code
doesn't block the rest of the developers or
the pipeline
► Only changes that have passed all build
and quality checks are committed to
version control
► Alert the code author immediately upon
rejection
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Notes:
Notes:
Applicationsecurity
► Applytoolsto automaticallyidentify
securityvulnerabilitiesinthe code during
the buildprocess
► Assessopen sourcelibrariescontinuously
for knownvulnerabilitiesto identifyrisks
duringdevelopmentor buildprocesses
Self-assessment:Build
-
Builds are run fewer than once per Iteration and/or are
completely manual.
• Builds are run once per Iteration and are partially automated ;
dev branches are open for a month or more ; builds break often .
Automated builds run once a day; broken builds are corrected in
2 - 4 hours ; manual unit tests are run against each build ; dev
branches are open for 2 - 4 weeks .
Builds run automatically upon code commit ; broken builds are
corrected within 1 hour; automated unit tests are run against
each build ; dev branches are merged to trunk every iteration .
Builds run on every commit ; builds include static code analysis
and security testing ; gated commits prevent defects from
entering the version control ; dev branches are merged to trunk
on every commit.
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Duration
~
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101

4.3 Test end-to-end
4.3 Test end-to-end
Notes:
Notes:
4.3 Testend-to-end
SCALED AGILE ·
Test End-to-End
► Purpose: To validate changes
against acceptance criteria in an
integrated, production-simulated
environment
► Skills:
- Test and production environment
congruity
- Test automation
- Test data management
- Service virtualization
- Nonfunctional requirements

4.3 Test end-to-end
Notes:
Notes:
Test and production environment congruity
At Telstra, only 50% of the source code in their development and test
environments matched what was running in production.
-Em Campbell-Pretty, Tribal Unity
► Make sure the test environments match production as much as
possible
► Maintain all configuration changes under version control
► Service virtualization helps alleviate some cost considerations
► Invest in higher fidelity for more accurate testing
Test automation
► Many types of testing need to be
run:
- Functional testing
- Integration testing
- Regression testing
- Performance testing
- Security testing
- Exploratory testing
- Penetration testing
► Not all tests should be automated
- A/B Tests
- Story Tests
(written first)
- UX (User Experience)
- Prototypes
- Simulations
• - Unit Tests
- Component Tests
(code level)
- Testing Connectivity
- Exploratory Testing
- Workflows
- System Integration
(business oriented)
- Usability Testing
- UAT (User Acceptance
Testing)
- Performance Testing
- Load Testing
- Security Testing
- Quality Attributes
(...ilities)
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4.3 Test end-to-end
Notes:
Notes:
Test data management
► Data for all types of tests
must be managed
► Store data in a repository for
consistent testing
► Emulate production data to
ensure tests reflect realistic
situations
Service virtualization
► Ability to spawn environments
which match production to
test
► Environments that support
different types of testing
► Maintain environment data in
source control
Test I Test
data
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4.3 Test end-to-end
Notes:
Notes:
Nonfunctional requirements (NFRs)
► Nonfunctional requirements are
system qualities that support
end-user functionality and
system goals.
► Sometimes known as the
'ilities'-reliability, usability,
scalability, availability, etc.
I INFRs
Audit and Control
► NFRs are constraints on
backlog items
Efficiency Scalab ity
Sup~ort . l~iy Usability
Rehab1hty Testability
Robustness Deployment
Backup Certification
► NFRs are not backlog items
themselves
Self-assessment: Test End-to-End
Availability
Testing is performed manually in environments that do not mimic
production ; testing occurs in large batches during a scheduled
testing phase .
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Testing is mostly manual in non-production-like environments ;
Stories are implemented and tested independently within a
single Pl.
-
Half of the testing is automated and performed in production-like
or production-simulated environments every Pl.
The majority of tests are automated and run in production-like
environments ; Stories are implemented and fully tested every
Iteration.
Successful builds trigger automatic deployment to production-
like test environments ; all tests are automated ;tests run in
parallel and changes are fully validated after every commit
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Duration
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4.4 Validat e on a st aging environment
Notes:
Notes:
4.4 Validateon a stagingenvironment
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Stage
► Purpose: Host fully-validated
systems in a production-
grade environment from
which they can be deployed
to production
► Skills:
- Maintain a staging environment
- Blue/green deployment
- System demo

Notes:
Notes:
Maintain a staging environment
► Maintain a staging environment that matches
production to prepare for moving to production
► Deploy to staging at least every Iteration and
run your System Demos from there
► Ideally, deploy to staging automatically after all
build and end-to-end tests have passed
Blue/green deployment
► Maintain two identical environments: idle and live.
► New Features are deployed to the idle environment on
a continuous basis. While staged, the Features can be
tested and showcased in preparation for release.
► New code is released to the idle environment where it
is thoroughly tested. When the code is ready to be
released, the team makes the idle environment active.
► If problems are discovered after the switch, the active
environment is switched back to idle, restoring the
previously active environment.
► Switching between environments is typically done by
redirecting traffic at the load balancer.
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Notes:
System Demo
► Demo working integrated
systems every two weeks
► New Features work together
and with existing functionality
► Demo from a staging
environment that resembles
production as much as
possible
► Program stakeholders
provide feedback
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Notes:
Notes:
Self-assessment: Stage
No staging environment exists or we use a test environment
for staging.
Features are deployed manually to a staging environment
once every Pl.
Features are deployed to a staging environment once per
month and demonstrated to Product Management.
Features and infrastructure are auto-deployed to a staging
environment every Iteration and accepted by Product
Management.
Stories , changes , and infrastructure are auto-deployed to a
staging environment , and deployment is validated .
Duration
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Activity: Apply Continuous Integration to your
Value Stream
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► Step 1: Identify the skills in this lesson that would
improve flow in your Value Stream between ready
to code and ready to deploy. Write each on a
star-shaped sticky note.
► Step 2: Construct a new view of this part of the
Value Stream in the Future State portion of the
DevOps Transformation Canvas. (Reuse, reorder,
or replace steps as desired.)
► Step 3: Place the stars on the steps they would
enable and provide new process time, lead time,
and %C&A for each step.
Example
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Notes:
Lesson review
In this lesson you:
► Explored how to develop the Solution
► Discussed building continuously
► Analyzed testing end-to-end
► Explored how to validate on a staging environment

Lesson 4 notes

Lesson 5
Reducing Time-to-Market with
Continuous Deployment
5.1 Deploy to production
5.2 Verify the Solution
5.3 Monitor for problems
5.4 Respond and recover

Notes:
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xao Activity: Deployment Gone Wrong
► Step 1: Read the story, "Deployment Gone
Wrong."
► Step 2: Form pairs and assume the roles of
Tracy and Travis.
► Step 3: Consider some of the immediate
solutions suggested by your character. Could any
of them be the right course of action?
► Step 4: Explain to your partner the reasons why
the option you chose may or may not be an
appropriate solution.
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Considering some of the immediate solutions suggested by your
character, could any of them be the right course of action?
Build imutable infrastructure D
Recovery issues are not real issues D
Add more servers D
Resolve production issues before they cause D
business disruption
D Deploy to select production environments
D Create two databases: blue and orange
D Match the stag ing and prod environments
D Decouple database changes from app
changes

On his way to work , Trav is was dream ing of one
th ing...
After months of coding,
Travis and his team were
about to deploy a
configurat ion change to the
feature allowing the robot
to maKe pr ecise
movements ( hoping that
th is would enable it to play
tenn is) .
Dep loyment s at Dynotra nsX, Inc . were dreadf ul, not only fo r Travis's team , but also fo r Operat ions, Testers, and GlA.
Dep loyments to product ion were manual, t ime-consuming, painful and ted ious. The deployment steps lived in a 150-
page document. Tweaks to code were communicated only on an as-broKen basis, and hand-offs and f ile shares
occurred in emails.
The manual deployment pract ices were error prone . The lacK of roll bac k plans, handoffs between teams , and
differences between staging environment and what was running in product ion made the deployment catastroph ic!
Travis's dream of the "deploy button" was fading away....

Notes:
Deployment
- Time-to-market
► IT objective
- Continuous Deployment (CD)
► Activities
- Deploy
- Verify
- Monitor
- Respond

5.1 D eploy to product ion
Notes:
Notes:
5.1 Deployto production
SCALED AGILE ·
Deploy
► Purpose : Deploy changes into production
with high frequency and low risk
► Skills:
- Dark launches
- Feature toggles
- Infrastructure as code
- Deployment automat ion
- Self-service deployment
- Selective deployment
- Version control (see Build)
- Blue/green deployment (see Stage )
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Notes:
Notes:
Dark launches
► Separate deploy (to
production) from release (to
end users)
► Enables testing and
monitoring system behavior in
the actual production
environment before exposing
new functionality to users
Feature toggles
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► Dynamically show and hide Features in
production
► Enables separation of deploy and release
► Enables rapid rollback of problem
Features
► Test toggles in both on and off position
► Be careful of toggle overload and testing
complexity
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Be careful of toggle overload
and testing comple xity
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Notes:
Notes:
Infrastructure as code
► Automates environment setup
and teardown
► Manages all infrastructure
assets and configurations in
version control
► Accelerates and de-risks
deployment by provisioning
standard/gold environments on
demand
► Enables infrastructure to always
be in a deployable state just like
application code
Deployment automation
► Automate all steps from code commit to production deployment
► Store all environment and package information in version control
► Test the deployment process itself
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Notes:
Notes:
Self service deployment
► If complete automation from code commit
to deployment to production is not
possible, automate the deployment of the
package to production
► Enable anyone to safely deploy validated
packages
► Provide simple controls to facilitate what
gets deployed
Selective deployment
► Deploy to select production
targets or environments
► This can be differentiated by
data center, geography, or
Customers
► Enables more flexible and
sophisticated release
strategies
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Notes:
Self-assessment: Deploy
Features are deployed to production every 3+ months ;
deployments are manual and painful ; deployed means
released .
Features are deployed to production at Pl boundaries ;
deployments are mostly manual ; deployed means released .
Features are deployed to production every Iteration ;
deployments are mostly automated ; some Features can be
deployed without being released .
Features are deployed to production every Iteration and fully
automated through the Continuous Delivery Pipeline ; dark
releases are common .
Features are deployed continuously throughout each
Iteration; Agile Teams initiate deployments directly via
Continuous Delivery Pipeline tools ; release is completely
decoupled from deployment ; dark releases are the norm .
Assess
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5.2 Verif ythe Solution
Notes:
Notes:
5.2 Verifythe Solution
SCALED AGILE ·
Verify
► Purpose: Assure that
deployment Solutions behave
as expected in production
before they are released to end
users
► Skills:
- Production testing
- Test automation (see build)
- Test data management
(see test end-to-end)
(see test end-to-end)

Notes:
Notes:
Productiontesting
► Testingof Features in the live
environment
► This includesfunctionaland
nonfunctionaltesting
► Runningsynthetic
transactionsthroughthe
servicesto verifyfitnessfor
purpose(utility)and fitness
for use (warranty)
Self-assessment:Verify
Deployments are not verified in production before being
released to end users .
Deployments are verified with manual smoke tests and/or
UAT; we address deployment issues within a stated
grace/warranty period ; recovery is painful or impossible ;we
often correct issues directly in production .
Deployments are verified with manual tests prior to releasing
to end users ; recovery is painful ; we do not make changes
directly in production .
Deployments are verified using automated production tests ,
synthetic transactions ,and secu rity tests prior to release ; we
can easily roll back or fix forward to recover from failed
deployments .
Automated production tests run on an ongoing basis and
feed monitoring systems ;failed deployments can be rolled
back instantly or fixed forward through the entire Continuous
Delivery Pipeline .
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Notes:
Notes:
5.3 Monitorfor problems
SCALED AGILE ·
Monitor
► Purpose: Quantitatively
measure system and user
behavior in real time
► Skills:
- Full-stack telemetry
- Visual displays
- Federated monitoring
- AIOps

Notes:
Notes:
Full-stack telemetry
► We need proper data to
monitor activities:
- Applications should clearly log
and report meaningful activities
and events
- Architect applications and
infrastructure to support
telemetry
- Monitor both technical data and
business data
Visual displays
► Visualize telemetry to the entire
organization
► Big visible information radiators
should project the health of the
applications and systems at all
times
► Information about key DevOps
Metrics should also be visible
(e.g., time since last deploy,
time since last outage, average
lead time, etc.)
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Notes:
Notes:
Federated monitoring
► Aggregate data from various
sources into a collection point
Network
► Build big visual information
radiators to display the
aggregated data I~ I l~fi1Jol► Provide accessibility and
ways to drill down into
individual application and
infrastructure telemetry
Artificial Intelligence for Operations (AIOps)
► The monitoring required for effective
DevOps produces a flurry of data, events,
and alerts
► AIOps uses machine learning and big data
techniques to quickly:
- Aggregate, correlate, and analyze events
- Separate meaningful events from the 'noise'
- Identify and predict root causes of issues
- Significantly reduce mean time to Restore
(MTTR)
Infra structure
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Notes:
Self-assessment:Monitor
No Feature-level production monitoring exists; only
infrastructure monitoring is in place .
Features only log faults and exceptions ; analyzing events
involves manually correlating logs from multiple systems .
Features log faults , user activity, and other events; data is
analyzed manually to investigate incidents and measure
business value of Features .
Full-stack monitoring is in place ; events can be correlated
throughout the architecture ; data is presented through
system-specific dashboards .
Federated monitoring platform provides one-stop access to
full-stack insights ;data is used to gauge system
performance and business value .
Assess
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5.4 R espond and recover
Notes:
Notes:
5.4 Respondand recover
SCALED AGILE ·
Respond
► Purpose: Proactively detect and
resolve production issues before
they cause business disruption
► Skills:
-Chaos engineering
- Proactive detection
-Cross-team collaboration
- Session replay
- Rollback and fix forward
- Immutable infrastructure
- Version control (see Build)

Notes:
Discussion: Chaos engineering
► Step 1: Read the blog post in your workbook
- How did Netflix prepare for the AWS outage?
- Would your systems be prepared for a similar
event?
- How might your organization apply chaos
engineering?
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The Netflix Simian Army
Source: Netfli x Technology Blog, Jul 19, 2011
The cloud is all about redundancy and fault-tolerance .Since no single component
can guarantee 100% uptime (and even the most expensive hardware eventually
fails), we have to design a cloud architecture where individual components can
fail without affecting the availability of the entire system. In effect, we have to be
stronger than our weakest link . We can use techniques like graceful degradation
on dependency failures, as well as node- , rack-, datacenter-/availability-zone-,
and even regionally-redundant deployments . But just designing a fault tolerant
architecture is not enough. We have to constantly test our ability to actually
survive these "once in a blue moon" failures.
Imagine getting a flat tire. Even if you have a spare tire in your trunk, do you know
if it is inflated? Do you have the tools to change it? And, most importantly, do you
remember how to do it right? One way to make sure you can deal with a flat tire
on the freeway, in the rain, in the middle of the night is to poke a hole in your tire
once a week in your driveway on a Sunday afternoon and go through the drill of
replacing it. This is expensive and time-consuming in the real world, but can be
(almost) free and automated in the cloud.
This was our philosophy when we built Chaos Monkey, a tool that randomly
disables our production instances to make sure we can survive this common
type of failure without any customer impact . The name comes from the idea of
unleashing a wild monkey with a weapon in your data center (or cloud region)
to randomly shoot down instances and chew through cables-all the while we
continue serving our customers without interruption.

By runn ing Chaos M onkey in the middle of a business day, in a careful ly monitored
environment with engineers standing by to address any prob lems , we can stil l
learn the lessons about the weaknesses of our system, and build automatic
recovery mechanisms to deal wi th them . So next time an instance fai ls at 3 am on
a Sunday, we won't even notice .
Inspired by the success of the Chaos Monkey, we've started creating new simians
t hat induce various kinds of failures , o r detect abnorma l condit ions, and test our
ab ility to survive them; a virtual Simian Army to keep our cloud safe, secure, and
high ly ava ilable.
Latency Monkey induces art ificia l de lays in our RESTful client-server
communication layer to simu late service degradat ion and measures if upstream
services respond appropriate ly. In addition, by making very large delays , we can
simulate a node or even an ent ire service downtime (and test our ability to survive
it) w ithout physically bring ing t hese instances down . This can be particularly
useful when testing the fault -tole rance of a new service by simulating the fa ilure
of its dependenc ies, without making these dependencies unava ilab le to the rest
of the system .
Conformity Monkey finds instances that don't adhere to best-practices and shuts
them down. For example, we know that if we find instances that don 't belong to
an auto-sca ling group , that's troub le waiting to happen . We shut them down to
give the serv ice owner the opportunity to re-launch them properly .
Doctor Monkey taps into healt h checks that run o n each instance as wel l as
monitors ot her external signs of health (e.g. C PU load) to detect un hea lthy
instances . Once unhea lthy instances are detected , they are removed from
service and after giving t he service owners t ime to root -cause the prob lem, are
eventual ly terminated .
Janitor Monkey ensures that our cloud environment is running free of clutte r and
waste . It searches for unused resources and disposes of them .

Security Monkey is an extension of Conformity Monkey. It finds security violations
or vulnerabilities, such as improperly configured AWS security groups , and
terminates the offending instances . It also ensures that all our SSL and DRM
certificates are valid and are not coming up for renewal.
10-18 Monkey (short for Localization -Internationalization, or 110n-i1Sn) detects
configuration and run time problems in instances serving customers in multiple
geographic regions , using different languages and character sets.
Chaos Gorilla is similar to Chaos Monkey, but simulates an outage of an entire
Amazon availability zone. We want to verify that our services automatically re-
balance to the functional availability zones without user-visible impact or manual
intervention.
With the ever -growing Netflix Simian Army by our side, constantly testing our
resilience to all sorts of failures, we feel much more confident about our ability to
deal with the inevitable failures that we'll encounter in production and to minimize
or eliminate their impact to our subscribers. The cloud model is quite new for us
(and the rest of the industry); fault-tolerance is a work in progress and we have
ways to go to fully realize its benefits. Parts of the Simian Army have already been
built, but much remains an aspiration-waiting for talented engineers to join the
effort and make it a reality .
Ideas for new simians are coming in faster than we can keep up and if you have
ideas, we'd love to hear them! The Simian Army is one of many initiatives we've
launched to put the spotlight on increasing the reliability of our service and
delivering to our customers an uninterrupted stream of entertainment .
Yury lzrailevsky, Director of Cloud & Systems Infrastructure
Ariel Tseitlin, Director of Cloud Solutions

Notes:
Notes:
Proactive detection
► Decoupling deployment from release allows
problem detection before problems are
exposed to Customers
► Proactively look for problems and practice
disaster and recovery situations
► Self sabotage, like chaos monkey, helps build
resilience
► These should be coordinated practices in
high-assurance environments, along with
failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA)
during architecture and design
Cross-team collaboration
► Dealing with production issues is
everyone 's responsibility
► Having a team that can develop and
support is preferred
► Teams from across the Value Stream
should collaborate on solving production
issues and identifying root causes
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Notes:
Notes:
Immutable infrastructure
Production
► Making changes directly in the
production environment creates
configuration drifts and has
inherent risks
► In an immutable infrastructure
environment, all changes are
deployed through the
► Make no changes directly in
production
Session replay
► Record customer sessions and replay
them to test problems
► Make session replay available in
production, testing, and development
environments
► Consider security and privacy when
implementing this Capability
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Notes:
Self-assessment: Respond
Customers find issues before we do; resolving high priority
issues is time consuming and reactive; Customers have low
confidence in our ability to recover from production issues .
Operations owns production issues ; development
involvement requires significant escalation ;teams blame
each other in times of crisis .
Our monitoring systems detect most issues before our
Customers do; Dev and Ops work proactively to recover
from major incidents .
Our monitoring systems detect most issues before our
Custome rs do; Dev and Ops work proactively to recover
from major incidents .
Our monitoring systems alert us to dangerous conditions
based on carefully designed tolerance thresholds ;
developers are responsible for supporting their own code
and proactively issue fixes through the pipeline before users
are affected .
Duration
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Notes:
Activity: Apply Continuous Deployment to
your Value Stream
that would improve flow in your Value
Stream between ready to deploy and
ready to release. Write each on a star-
shaped sticky note.
process time , lead time, and %C&A for
each step.
Example
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Notes:
Lesson review
In this lesson you:
► Explored how to deploy to production
► Discussed how to verify the Solution
► Analyzed how to monitor for problems
► Discussed how to respond and recover

Lesson 5 notes

Lesson 6
Delivering Business Value with
Release on Demand
6.1 Release on Demand
6.2 Stabilize the Solution
6.3 Measure the business value
6.4 Learn and react

Notes:
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I x
xao Activity: What did we release?
► Step 1: Read the story, "What did we
release?"
► Step 2: Review the clues provided by the
characters.
► Step 3: Considering your own context,
discuss:
- What are some actions you could take to prevent
situations like the one at DynotransX from
occurring so often?
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What could you do in your company to prevent situations like the one at
DynotransX from occurring so often?
In your group, share what is your disaster recovery plan.
Create a plan for disaster recovery D
Tight ly coup le the system architectu re to D
avoid production instability
D Define clear measu rements for success
D Instead of measur ing system performance, fix
the tec hnica l debt

The new feature of the consumer robot
was almost read y for a release. A s Trav is
was testing the code for the precis ion
movements , he discovered that someth i ng
was wrong wlth the database . And , there
was a lso a need for an upgrade .
later .... the release
was finally out ...
At the conference
DynotransX, Ben w
good mood either .
was out but more

Notes:
Release on Demand
- Business value
► IT objective
- Release on Demand
► Activities
- Release
- Stabilize
- Measure
- Learn

6.1 R elease on D emand
Notes:
Notes:
SCALED AGILE ·
Release
► Purpose: Release value to
Customers all at once or
incrementally
► Skills:
- Canary releases
- Feature toggles (see Deploy)
- Decouple release elements (see
Architect)
- Dark launches (see Deploy)

Notes:
Notes:
Canary releases
► Providethe abilityto release
value to partof the user
population,be it internalor
external
► Add or remove user segments
based on businessdecisions
► Combinewith selective
deploymentsto enable
incrementaldeploymentand roll
out
1. Sit
2. Crawl
3. Walk
4. Run
5. Fly
Self-assessment: Release activity
Releases are tightly coupled to deployments ,and
Customers are extremely dissatisfied with the frequency of
releases.
Releases are tightly coupled to deployments , but
Customers are somewhat dissatisfied with the frequency
of releases.
Release and deployment are coupled but both occur
continuously or on demand .
Release is decoupled from deployment ; deployed
Features are released to the end user population based
on business readiness .
Deployed Features can be released to individual
segments of the user population ; Feature toggles are
refactored when no longer used.
SCALED AGILE • Cl Scaled Agile.Inc.
154
Duration
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155

6.2 St abilize the Solution
Notes:
Notes:
6.2 Stabilizethe Solution
SCALED AGILE ·
Stabilize
► Purpose: Assure sustainably high
levels of business continuity,
application service levels, and data
protection
► Skills:
- Site reliability engineering (SRE)
- Failover/disaster recovery
- Continuous security monitoring
- Architect for operations
(See Architect)
(See Test End-to-End)

Notes:
Notes:
Site reliability engineering (SRE)
Ensure large systems are highly reliable and
scalable via:
► Shared ownership of system stability between
Dev and Ops
► T-shaped engineers with deep development
and operations expertise
► Approaching all operational activities as a
software concern
► Closely managing Service Level Indicators
(Slls) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
Failover/disaster recovery
Failures will occur. Develop the ability to recover quickly.
► Failover mechanism allows
service to resume quickly or
even avoid service
interruption
► Disaster recovery must be
planned, architected into the
service, and practiced
Disaster
158
Recovery Site
159

Notes:
Notes:
Continuous security monitoring
► Detect intrusions and attacks on production
services and infrastructure (detective controls)
► Security as code and penetration testing focus
on preventing known vulnerabilities from
getting to production (preventive controls)
► Test services continuously for newly
discovered and reported vulnerabilities
► Most breach studies show time to detect a
breach is over 200 days, and typically
breaches are detected by external parties
rather than internal processes or monitoring
Self-assessment: Stabilize activity
-
We experience frequent unplanned outages and/or security
breaches with long recovery times .
-
We experience occasional unplanned outages but recover within
our service level agreements .
-
We have very few unplanned outages ; availability , security, and
disaster recovery measures are effective .
-
We have no unplanned outages ; we plan and rehearse failure
and recovery.
-
We maximize resiliency by deliberately injecting faults into our
production environment and rehearsing recovery procedures .
160
Duration
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161

6.3 Measure the business v alue
Notes:
Notes:
6.3 Measurethe businessvalue
SCALED AGILE ·
Measure
► Purpose: Determine actual
business value delivered
through feedback collected
from production
► Skills:
- Innovation accounting
(see Hypothesize)
- Evaluate hypothesis

Notes:
Notes:
Evaluate hypothesis
► Applicationtelemetrycreates
a way to evaluate the
businessresultsof a
hypothesis
► Measure bothleadingand
laggingindicators
► Buildthe abilityto identifythe
correlationbetween business
resultsand the hypothesis
beingtested
Self-assessment:Measure activity
We don't define or measure the value of Features.
We 've defined what 'value' is but don't know how to
measure it.
We capture qualitative feedback from the business about
the value of our Features.
We capture qualitative and quantitative feedback from the
business and our monitoring systems about the value of our
Features .
We aggregate the quantitative and qualitative feedback to
objectively validate the original hypothesis and inform pivot-
or-persevere decisions .
164
Duration
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165

6.4 Learn and react
6.4 Learn and react
Notes:
Notes:
6.4 Learn and react
SCALED AGILE ·
Learn
► Purpose: Learn from the
hypothesis on whether to
pivot or persevere as well as
how to improve the flow of
value
► Skills:
- Lean startup (see Hypothesize)
- Relentless improvement
- Value Stream mapping

6.4 Learn and react
Notes:
Notes:
Relentless improvement
► In order to improve the ability to
test hypotheses, the Continuous
Delivery Pipeline must be
constantly maintained
► Team-level retrospectives and
program- and solution-level
Inspect and Adapt events are
crucial to improve the flow
► Focus on the root cause of
bottlenecks and research
incidents to identify the most
important place to improve
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6.4 Learn and react
Notes:
Self-assessment: Learn
Features are never evaluated post-release .
Features are sometimes evaluated using subjective
information .
Hypotheses are evaluated using objective measures , but
actions are heavily influenced by corporate politics .
Hypotheses are objectively evaluated ; pivot or persevere
decisions are made without mercy or guilt.
Continuous learning and experimentation are ingrained in the
DNA of the organization .
SCALED AGILE · Cl Scaled Agile . Inc.
Duration
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170

6.4 Learn and react
Notes:
Activity:Apply Release on Demand to your
Value Stream
that would improve your Value Stream
between ready to release and
hypothesis tested. Write each on a star-
shaped sticky note.
process time, lead time , and %C&A for
each step.
Example
...1'1.EMETIIY
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171

6.4 Learn and react
Notes:
Lesson review
In this lesson you:
► Explored how to release on demand
► Discussed how to stabilize the Solution
► Explored how to measure the business value
► Discussed how to evaluate a hypothesis and make a decision

Lesson 6 notes

Lesson 7
Taking Action
7.1 Share your DevOps action plan

7.1 Share your Dev Ops action plan
Notes:
SCALED AGILE .

Notes:
Taking action: Prioritize your DevOps
backlog (Part 1)
► Step 1: Write down all the improvement items from your board in
your workbook.
► Step 2: Identify items that are outside the scope of things you can
change, and document them in the "Boundaries and Limitations"
section of the DevOps transformation canvas.
Duration
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► Step 3: Identify the item that offers the least overall improvement
based on the changes to lead time, process time, or percent
complete and accurate. Mark that as 1 in the cost of delay column.
Improvement Item
Cost
of
delay
Job
size
WSJF
174

Notes:
Duration
Taking action: Prioritize your DevOps
backlog (Part 2)
~
~
► Step 1: Estimate the cost of delay for all other items relative to the
1, using the numbers 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, and 20
► Step 2: Estimate the job size of the items in a similar fashion; again,
assign the smallest job size a 1
► Step 3: Calculate WSJF
► Step 4: Document the three highest priorities in the "Improvement
Items" section of the DevOps transformation canvas

Notes:
Taking action: DevOps transformation
canvas
► Step 1: Review other teams' DevOps transformation canvases.
Duration
~
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- Note: Each team should have a person by their canvas to answer questions.
Make sure the people who present the canvases rotate and get the chance
to walk the gallery.
► Step 2: Share some observations with the class.

Notes:
Activity: The End
► Step 1: Read the story, "The
End."
- What are some of the future
challenges you foresee for you and
your team while on the DevOps
transformation journey?
- What are some of your takeaways
from the story about Travis and Tracy
and the DynotransX, Inc.
transformation?
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Future challenges:
Key takeaways:
Be SAFe on YOU R DevOps
journey !

Tracy has been d iscuss ing serve r tssues with Trav is and
his team ever since the re lease of t he late s t fea t ure . It
t urn s out that the servers have been over load ing for
quite some t ime.
WE NEED TO ADD
ANOTHER PHYSICAL
SERVER. TtiE FIREWAU.
NEEOS TO SE CtiANGED
TOO!!
WE ARE GOING TO NEED OS SET UP,
SOFTWARE PAO:AGES, LICENSE KEYS,
ACCOUNTS, IP ADDRESSES, ROUTER
PORTS, CAEIUNG.... ANO THE FIRENAU..?!
LAST TIME rT TOOi( MONTHS MAKING THE
CHANGES TO THE FI REWALL.
TRAVIS, WE NEED TO SOLVE THfS
PR09l.E.M . WE NEED TO FINO A WAY
TO PREVENT DISASTERS UICETHAT
EVER HAPPENING AGAIN! LET'S GET
THE TEAMS TOGETHER//
WAIT, TRACV!I WHAT 00 YOU
MEAN? FIREWAU..CHANGES
SHOLI.D ON..Y TAKE A FE.W
MINUTES . WHY IS TAKING
MOHTHS OF WORK?!?t?I

Oneyearlater,DynotransXwasbecoming moreandmore
successful. However,theworkwasn'tquite doneyet.With the
plansfor scaling, growingandexploringglobalmarkets, new
challengeswerepresentedto theteams. Therewasstill the
needto Fully adoptpracticesfor defining theMinimumViable
Productinthe contextoftheLeanStartupcycle. TheBacklog
neededpreparation, andworkhadto beprioritized. Butthis is
thenatureof challenges- theyneverstop. Thekeyis to
continueFindingthebestsolutionspossible...
Tracyno longerhadto
worryaboutthe downtime
of serversand endless
support tickets...
....andTravis no
longerreceived2AM
phone callsfrom
Tracy...

Notes:
Take action after the class
► Share the DevOps transformation canvas and
your insights with your peers
► Refine the Value Stream map with your
stakeholders
► Enter your top three improvements into your
Program Backlog
► Enhance your software engineering practices
with Agile Software Engineering
► Explore the architect role with SAFe for
Architects

Notes:
Lesson review
In this lesson you:
► Shared your DevOps action plan

Lesson 7 notes

Lesson 8
Becoming a SAFe DevOps
Practitioner
8.1 Becoming a Certified SAFe Professional

8.1 B ecoming a C ertif ied SAFe Professional
Notes:
Make the most of your learning
Access the SAFe Community Platform
Manage your member profile, continue your learning with toolkits and videos,
and access communities of practice and the member directory
Prepare Yourself
Extend your SAFe knowledge and prepare for certification with your learning
plan, course workbook, study materials, and practice test before your exam
Become a Certified SAFe Professional
Demonstrate your validated knowledge, skills, and mindset to participate in
SAFe methods
Showcase Your SAFe Credentials
Use your digital badge to view global insights, track market labor data, and
see where your skills are in demand

Notes:
Video link: https://vimeo.com/307578726
About SAFe certification: https://www.scaledagile.com/certifications/about-safe-
certification/
Video: Become a Certified SAFe
Professional
Continue to build on the foundation
of SAFe learning you began in class
by studying and taking the
certification exam.
Earning this certification
demonstrates and establishes your
new knowledge.
Certification details at:
https://www.scaledagile.com/certifica
tion/about-safe-certification/
Ir-vi~
https ://vimeo .com /307578726
Duration
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181

Notes:
Video link: https://vimeo.com/201877314
Video: Welcome to the SAFe Community
Platform
Want to learn more about the next
steps on your SAFe Journey?
Access the SAFe Community
Platform and discover all the
SAFe resources available for your
use!
1~~
https ://vimeo .com /20187731 4
Duration
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182

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Lesson 8 notes

Appendix 1
Glossary
Glossary
SAFe Glossary:
Visit the Scaled Agile Framework site (scaledagileframework.com/glossary) to
download glossaries translated into other languages
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