SAFe:Scale Agile Framework
SAFe: The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) helps businesses address the significant challenges of developing and delivering enterprise-class software and systems in the shortest sustainable lead time.
SAFe synchronizes alignment, collaboration, and delivery for multiple Agile teams.
ART : Agile Release Trains
Shared Services – Represents the specialty roles that are necessary for the success of an ART or value stream, but that cannot be dedicated full time to any specific train.
Community of Practice (CoP) – A community of practice is an informal group of team members and other experts, acting within the context of a program or enterprise, that has a mission of sharing practical knowledge in one or more relevant domains.
Milestones – A milestone is used to track progress toward a specific goal or event. These include fixed-date, Program Increment (PI) and learning milestones.
Roadmap – The roadmap communicates planned ART and value stream deliverables and milestones over a timeline.
Vision – The vision describes a future view of the solution to be developed, reflecting customer and stakeholder needs, as well as Features and Capabilities, which are proposed to address those needs.
System Team – This is a special Agile team that provides assistance in building and using the Agile development environment, including Continuous Integration and test automation and automating the delivery pipeline.
Lean User Experience (UX) – Lean UX is the application of Lean principles to user experience design. It uses an iterative, hypothesis-driven approach to product development, through constant measurement and learning loops (build-measure-learn). In SAFe, Lean UX is applied at scale, with the right combination of centralized and decentralized UX design and implementation.
Metrics – The primary measure in SAFe is the objective measurement of working solutions. Moreover, SAFe defines some additional intermediate and long-term measures as well, metrics that teams, programs, and portfolios can use to measure progress.
SAFe Foundation: The Foundation contains the supporting principles, values, mindset, implementation guidance, and leadership roles needed to deliver value successfully at scale.
Lean-Agile Leaders – Management has the ultimate responsibility for business outcomes. Leaders must be trained, and then become trainers of, these leaner ways of thinking and operating. To this end, SAFe describes a new style of leadership exhibited by the enterprise’s leaders. Core Values – Four core values define the belief system for SAFe: Alignment, Built-In Quality, Transparency, and Program Execution.
Lean-Agile Mindset – Lean-Agile Leaders are lifelong learners and teachers. They understand and embrace Lean and Agile principles and practices.
SAFe Principles – SAFe practices are grounded in nine principles that synthesize Agile methods, Lean product development, systems thinking, and decades of field experience.
Implementation Roadmap – Implementing the changes necessary to become a Lean-Agile technology enterprise is a substantial change for most companies. SAFe provides an implementation roadmap to help guide organizations on this journey.
SAFe Program Consultants (SPCs) – SPCs are change agents who combine their technical knowledge of SAFe with an intrinsic motivation to improve their company’s software and systems development processes.
Planning:
SAFe synchronizes alignment, collaboration, and delivery for multiple Agile teams.
ART : Agile Release Trains
What: Agile Release Train (ART) is a long-lived
and cross-functional team-of-Agile-teams, which along with other stakeholders,
develops and delivers solutions incrementally, using a series of fixed-length
iterations within a Program Increment (PI) time box.
Why: To ensure teams are serving business
goals and technology mission, looking forward to next quarter's plan, based on
Business Strategy.
Shared Services – Represents the specialty roles that are necessary for the success of an ART or value stream, but that cannot be dedicated full time to any specific train.
Community of Practice (CoP) – A community of practice is an informal group of team members and other experts, acting within the context of a program or enterprise, that has a mission of sharing practical knowledge in one or more relevant domains.
Milestones – A milestone is used to track progress toward a specific goal or event. These include fixed-date, Program Increment (PI) and learning milestones.
Roadmap – The roadmap communicates planned ART and value stream deliverables and milestones over a timeline.
Vision – The vision describes a future view of the solution to be developed, reflecting customer and stakeholder needs, as well as Features and Capabilities, which are proposed to address those needs.
System Team – This is a special Agile team that provides assistance in building and using the Agile development environment, including Continuous Integration and test automation and automating the delivery pipeline.
Lean User Experience (UX) – Lean UX is the application of Lean principles to user experience design. It uses an iterative, hypothesis-driven approach to product development, through constant measurement and learning loops (build-measure-learn). In SAFe, Lean UX is applied at scale, with the right combination of centralized and decentralized UX design and implementation.
Metrics – The primary measure in SAFe is the objective measurement of working solutions. Moreover, SAFe defines some additional intermediate and long-term measures as well, metrics that teams, programs, and portfolios can use to measure progress.
SAFe Foundation: The Foundation contains the supporting principles, values, mindset, implementation guidance, and leadership roles needed to deliver value successfully at scale.
Lean-Agile Leaders – Management has the ultimate responsibility for business outcomes. Leaders must be trained, and then become trainers of, these leaner ways of thinking and operating. To this end, SAFe describes a new style of leadership exhibited by the enterprise’s leaders. Core Values – Four core values define the belief system for SAFe: Alignment, Built-In Quality, Transparency, and Program Execution.
Lean-Agile Mindset – Lean-Agile Leaders are lifelong learners and teachers. They understand and embrace Lean and Agile principles and practices.
SAFe Principles – SAFe practices are grounded in nine principles that synthesize Agile methods, Lean product development, systems thinking, and decades of field experience.
Implementation Roadmap – Implementing the changes necessary to become a Lean-Agile technology enterprise is a substantial change for most companies. SAFe provides an implementation roadmap to help guide organizations on this journey.
SAFe Program Consultants (SPCs) – SPCs are change agents who combine their technical knowledge of SAFe with an intrinsic motivation to improve their company’s software and systems development processes.
Planning:
- Breakdown prioritized epics into smaller working features by collaborating with the Release train support team
- Identify and manage ROI, sequencing, impacts, dependencies, risks and constraints
- Prepare and plan for the quarterly releases up to next quarter +1
- Facilitate discussions with the business on decisions and priorities
- ART Core team has the final vote
- Escalates impediments
- Manage risk
- Feature Progress Report
- Program Kanban Board
- Program Predictability Measure
- Performance Metrics
- PI Burn-Down Chart
- Cumulative Flow Diagram
- Agile Release Train Self-Assessment
- Continuous Delivery Pipeline
- Efficiency Deployments and Releases per Timebox
- Recovery over Time
- Hypotheses Tested over Time
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