Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

• Workflow patterns to implement agile mindset at scale in an organization
• Framework that incorporates Lean, Agile, DevOps
• https://www.scaledagileframework.com/
• Benefits
• Faster time to market
• Increase in productivity
• Increased employee engagement
• Improvements in product quality

Configuration

• Essential SAFe
• Minimum set of roles, events and artifacts
• ART is the heart
• Large Solution SAFe
• Includes Essential SAFe
• Requires sync across multiple PIs
• Previously referred as value stream level
• Portfolio SAFe
• Includes Essencial SAFe
• Organize the flow of value through one or more value streams
• Full SAFe
• Includes Essencial SAFe
• Includes Large Solution SAFe
• Includes Portfolio SAFe

Core Values

1. Alignment: keep pace with the fast changes
2. Built-in-Quality: product quality standards
3. Architecture
4. Design
5. Code
6. System
7. Release
8. Transparency: trust-building behavior
9. Program Execution: continuously deliver value

Core Principles

1. Take an economic view
2. Economic impact of choices
3. Apply system thinking
4. Understand the big picture of the system
5. Assume variability; preserve options
6. Variability is inevitable, have a plan to overcome it and remain flexible
7. Build incrementally with fast with fast integrated learning cycles
8. Implement the iterations
9. Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
10. Every milestone (a increment of value) contains all the requirements (design, testing, etc)
11. Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
12. Achieve a continuous state of flow
13. Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning
14. Join your progress with the progress of other teams
15. Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
16. Promoting engagement
17. Decentralize decision-making
18. Reliable decision-making framework
19. Organize around value
20. Value increment is the focus

Core Competencies

1. Team and Technical Agility
2. Agile Team
3. Deploy value in the iterations
4. Agile Product Delivery
5. Customer centric & Design Thinking
6. Develop on cadence & Release on demand
7. DevOps & CI/CD
8. Enterprise Solution Delivery
9. Lean System & Solution Engineering
10. Coordinate ARTs and Suppliers
11. Continually evolve live systems
12. Lean Portfolio Management
13. Value Stream
14. Portfolio Vision
15. Strategic Themes
16. Allocate money to the most viable thing
17. Organizational Agility
18. Lean-thinking People & Agile Teams
19. Lean Business Operations
20. Strategy Agility
21. Continuous Learning Culture
22. Leaning Organization
23. Innovation Culture
24. Relentless Improvement
25. Lean-Agile Leadership
26. Foundation layer
27. SAFe Program Consultant (SPC): evangelize safe
28. Leading by Example
29. Mindset & Principles
30. Leading Change

Spanning Palette

• Plays at any level configuration!

• Vision

• Roadmap
• Milestones
• Shared Services
• CoP
• System Team
• Lean UX
• Metrics

House of lean

• Roof: value
• Pillars:
• Respect of people and culture
• Flow
• Innovation
• Relentless Improvement
• Base (foundation): Leadership

Value Stream

• It's everything involved to create a product
• It's the sequence of activities needed to convert hypothesis into solution
• Activities
• Define
• Build
• Validate
• Release

• The sum of times is the lead time

• Development Value Stream

• Operational Value Stream