Description

Duration

Two Full Days or Four Half Days

Overview

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is all about guiding enterprises in scaling lean and agile practices. It promotes alignment, collaboration, and delivery across large numbers of agile teams. Developed by practitioners, SAFe leverages three primary bodies of knowledge: agile software development, lean product development, and systems thinking.

The SAFe framework is designed to manage longer planning horizons. Whereas development teams typically work two to three iterations ahead, larger organisations need to plan much further. Often they work with a very high level, 12 months to 18 months roadmap, then plan collaboratively with the teams for three months of work.

During this two-day hands-on implementation engagement, attendees will learn to lead a Lean-Agile enterprise by leveraging the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®). They will also learn and practice supporting and executing PI Planning events and launching and coordinating multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs).

Agile Release Trains align teams to a common business and technology mission. Each virtual organisation (typically 50 – 125 people) plans, commits, develops, and deploys together. ARTs are organised around the enterprise’s significant Value Streams and exist solely to realise the promise of that value by building Solutions that benefit the end-user. ARTs are cross-functional and have all the capabilities—software, hardware, firmware, and others—needed to define, implement, test, deploy, release, and, where applicable, operate solutions. An ART delivers a continuous flow of value to the business.

Steps to Launching your First SAFe Agile Release Train include

• Train SAFe Program Consultants (SPCs)
• Train Lean-Agile Leaders
• Perform a Value Stream Workshop and Identify your FIRST Agile Release Train
• Define Value Streams 
• Define/Setup the Agile Release Train and Teams and its Best Practices 
• Fill important roles 
• Prepare and Refine the Agile Program Backlog
• Train the Teams; Set a date for the launch
• Conduct PI Planning – Launch Agile Release Train
• Execute the Program Increment
• Execute the Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration