Deconstructing the scaled agile framework - Lunch and Learn series

Reedy Feggins presents on scaling agile practices. He has over 15 years of software development experience including certifications in SAFe, Scrum, and Project Management. Innovation is increasingly driven by software, but software development faces challenges like changing requirements, unpredictable delivery, and high costs. Agile frameworks aim to address these challenges but don't scale beyond the team level. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) provides a proven approach for applying agile practices at an enterprise scale through alignment, collaboration, and synchronized delivery across many teams. SAFe has helped other organizations increase productivity, speed time to market, and reduce defects.

The document introduces the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for helping organizations adopt agile practices at scale. It discusses how SAFe addresses the needs of large software enterprises by drawing from agile, lean principles and practices. SAFe provides a proven framework for synchronizing alignment, collaboration and delivery across multiple agile teams working on large programs and portfolios. It emphasizes values like continuous delivery of value, transparency, quality code and respect for individuals.

ACI, as a professional global body designs, prescribes, promulgates and promotes the "BEST" in the Global Agile Standards. ACI today offers four certification standards for individual professionals, Accredited ScrumMaster (ASM), Accredited Agile Practitioner (AAP), Accredited Product Owner (APO), and Accredited SAFe Agile Practitioner (ASAP). Two more certifications will be released from alpha testing on Dec 15, 2013. AAP is best suited for Suited for Project Managers transitioning from waterfall to Agile environments For more information visit: http://www.agilecertifications.org/asap.html http://www.agilecertifications.org/

Why Scale? When choose each scaling approach? SAFe? LeSS? Enterprise Kanban? Other? Scaling experts will compare the different approaches, share from their experience and answer questions from the audience This is the SAFe section presented by Roni Tamari

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has a special event that is held for every Program Increment (5 sprints-ish). This is a large scale, collaborative event including everyone from the Agile Release Train (50 people plus). This workshop will be a highly interactive event where all participants will be involved in one of many teams collaborating together to plan a single Program Increment for a single product. The schedule will roughly contain: Overview of SAFe Program Increment Planning (Fictional) Business Context Product / Solution Vision Architecture Vision And Development Practices Planning Session 1 Draft Plan Review Planning Session 2 Final Plan Review Risk ROAMing Confidence Vote Retrospective

Scaled Agile Framework in 10 minutes (SAFe 3.0) - Scaled: SAFe is designed for large-scale software development ecosystems of 50-125 people who need to resolve inter-dependencies - Agile: SAFe is based on 9 Lean-Agile principles - Framework: SAFe is a collection of a proven efficacy tools, and you only have to use what you need https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vysQQx7pQzg El objetivo de la Lightning Talk es dar una visión "light" pero completa de lo que propone Scaled Agile Framework 3.0 como marco de referencia para el escalado de Agile. Scaled Agile Framework es uno de los marcos de referencia para escalado de Agile que mayor aceptación está teniendo a día de hoy, sobre todo cuando hablamos de grandes organizaciones. El marco SAFe parte de las capas de abstracción clásicas de una organización para estructurar un cambio de perspectiva y de cultura basándose en los 4 valores y 9 principios Lean-Agile, apoyándose además en las prácticas Scrum-XP de desarrollo de productos. En la charla descubriremos de manera rápida los roles, artefactos y ceremonias que plantea el marco para conseguir un cambio de paradigma sostenible en las organizaciones. Unai Roldán UST Global

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is an agile framework for enterprise-scale organizations. It addresses challenges of architecture, integration, funding, and roles at scale. SAFe has three levels - portfolio, program, and team. At the portfolio level, investment themes drive budget allocations. The program level uses Agile Release Trains of 5-10 teams to deliver value in 10 week iterations. Teams use Scrum or Kanban with 2 week iterations. SAFe aims to apply lean-agile principles at an enterprise scale.

Sans doute vous identifiez vous dans une ou plusieurs des situations suivantes: - plusieurs équipes Scrum travaillent dans votre entreprise, parfois sur un même projet ou des projets connexes - la coordination entre équipes Scrum n'est pas optimale - vous-même, ou certains stakeholders, ont besoin d'une vue plus long terme sur vos projets Agile, plus que "juste le prochain sprint" - sur base du succès de Scrum dans votre entreprise, vous voulez allez plus loin et vous voulez rendre plus agile l'entièreté de votre entreprise Si c'est le cas, venez découvrir le framework SAFe. Après une présentation du framework et de ses fondements, vous serez en mesure de mieux le comprendre, et de voir ce qu'il peut apporter ou non à votre entreprise.

I was invited by two product groups at Amdocs, Pune office to deliver a session on the overview of SAFe. This is the deck from the talk.

Today’s successful companies are recognizing that software is increasingly a competitive advantage for their business. Real, tangible software development value occurs only when end-users are successfully operating the software in their environment. To ensure a faster flow of value to the business, the Scaled Agile Framework helps teams successfully deliver a differentiated and engaging customer experience, achieve quicker time to value, and gain increased capacity to innovate. The process of deploying software builds to production is no less important than developing and testing the new functionality. As an industry, we are currently mastering more Agile, better and faster methods for incrementally developing potential user value. In practice, however, these achievements are jeopardized by poorly managed deployments that happen too late in the lifecycle and delays value delivery. Bringing deployment operations (DevOps) onboard the Agile Release Train, engaging them in the PSI planning and other program level events, and establishing environments, practices and disciplined procedures in support of a continuous deployment pipeline helps the enterprise enable faster feedback and a more predictable value delivery rhythm. Join Michael Stump (Principal Contributor to SAFe), Thought Leader from Scaled Agile Inc. and software industry veteran to get an in-depth overview of how SAFe together with DevOps can provide the most customer value and quality in the sustainable shortest lead time.

Interested in finding out how to scale agile faster, easier and smarter using the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe)? If so, make sure you watch this two-part webinar series! Scrum, XP, Kanban and related methods have been proven to provide step changes in productivity and quality for software teams. However, these methods do not have the native constructs necessary to scale across the enterprise. What the industry desperately needs is a solution that moves from a set of simplistic, disparate, development-centric methods, to a scalable, unified approach that addresses the complex constructs and additional stakeholders in the organization – and accelerates the realization of enterprise-class product or service initiatives via aligned and cooperative solution development. Part I: Join Dean Leffingwell, software industry veteran and Lean Systems Society Fellow, for an overview of SAFe, a publicly–accessible knowledge base of proven lean and agile practices for enterprise-class software development. Dean Leffingwell, software industry veteran and Lean Systems Society Fellow, has spent his career helping software teams achieve their goals. A renowned methodologist, author, coach, entrepreneur and executive, Dean's most recent project is the Scaled Agile Framework (scaledagileframework.com), a public-facing website which describes a comprehensive system for scaling lean and agile practices to the largest software enterprises. Andy Powell is Product Evangelist for VersionOne and Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant. During his 12-year career in the software development industry, Andy has assisted in numerous 500+ person agile tool rollouts with companies such as Siemens, Adobe, EMC and Sabre, giving him considerable experience in leading major projects. Andy received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and graduated magna cum laude. Lee Cunningham is an Enterprise Agile Coach for VersionOne focused on agile program and portfolio management. Lee has trained and consulted with hundreds of teams in organizations of all sizes in the US, Canada and the UK. Lee served in the United States Air Force and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of North Florida.

Many organizations have achieved agility at the team level only to be unable to achieve it across teams. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) provides both a vision and method for how to achieve this. SAFe is the first documented framework that can be used to scale agile throughout an organization. It is a combination of lean, kanban, and Scrum—lean to provide a context for an organization, kanban to manage the flow of projects, and Scrum to provide agile at the team level. Beginning with an introduction to lean and kanban, Ken Pugh explains why they are required for agile at scale. Ken then describes the framework of SAFe—specifically how it creates a structure to manifest the behaviors required for agile at scale. In particular, learn how to coordinate your organization’s portfolio, programs, and projects. Ken concludes by discussing when it is advisable to use the framework and when a more emergent method is preferable.

Do you have highly functional scrum teams but are wondering how to get them to work in sync with each other, or wondering how get "start-up" efficiency in a large enterprise? Or maybe you just heard that the Scaled Agile Framework for the Enterprise (SAFe®) is gaining traction and you want to find out more about it. Before the year is out, we want to give you a primer on SAFe, so you can decide if it should be on your list of resolutions for the new year! We continue to see that Agile and Scrum deliver value and are catching the eyes of leadership individuals. But how does a large enterprise thrive with a Scrum framework that was made for 5-9 individuals? SAFe has garnered a lot of attention as a potential framework for enterprises with large product teams (5 or more scrum teams on a product line). It calls for the overall alignment throughout the organization so that the Scrum teams making up a large product development team can deliver valuable, high quality product increments with transparency and technical excellence. The program execution is achieved by leveraging the existing Scrum Team practices and interfacing with the higher Program and Portfolio layers in the organization. cPrime SAFe coach, Sri will provide an overview of the SAFe framework and show why it appeals not only to the engineers and architects, but also to the product management, customer support and the executive team.

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Abstract: More and more organizations are realizing that in order to achieve business agility they need to go beyond implementing agile in specific teams/projects. Real agility requires scaling agile to the program/portfolio/enterprise level. In this session we will explore the options organizations have when looking to scale agile, with an emphasis on SAFe(tm) - the Scaled Agile Framework - one of the most popular options these days. Learning Objectives: • When does it make sense to Scale Agile • What are the leading scaling approaches • An introduction to SAFe's Big Picture and implementation configurations • How to implement SAFe - The Implementation Roadmap • Typical Results of implementing SAFe • Key risks/red flags to be aware of when implementing SAFe

How Scaled Agile Training (SAFe) can help unemployed folks standout during their interview with prospective employers.

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a proven framework for implementing agile practices at enterprise scale. Implementing Agile, for example SCRUM, for 1 team is already a significant challenge but scaling Agile to multiple teams, across the enterprise can be particularly daunting. Seeking business agility, SAFe aims to provide a solution for scaling agile. This session is designed those who wish to better understand the purpose and foundations of the framework as well as the business benefits that it can deliver. Finally, As a Microsoft ALM Partner with certified SAFe consultants, InCycle will present how Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) can be used to support the framework.

Understand the benefits of Scrum. Remember what support you have in the framework. Be wary of the pitfalls. Apply change facilitators to your practice to get out of scrum-but. Link to download worksheets: https://goo.gl/id73Pu

Just when companies seems to be warming up to agile, here comes SCALED agile. But how is SAFe really different than agile? Does using the SAFe framework undermine the scrum teams? Isn’t SAFe just a glorified version of waterfall that companies adopt when they can’t handle “real” agile? I decided the best solution was to go through the training and spend some time practicing it in the field. What I found was that SAFe leverages the best of Lean, Kanban, and scrum. SAFe is intended for large, enterprise customers delivering extremely complex and interdependent systems, but that doesn’t mean it offers nothing to smaller teams. Since becoming a Safe program consultant, I have coached a number of my smaller customers on improving their software development and delivery processes leveraging techniques from SAFe. In this interactive session, I plan to quickly walk through the tenets of SAFe, share some of my learnings with you, and help you to understand when and how SAFe can benefit your team!

Delivered at the QAI Quest conference as a 90 minute workshop - With so many software delivery process frameworks and methodologies out there, it’s hard to know where to begin. And just when the industry seems to be warming up to agile, here comes SCALED agile with frameworks like SAFe, LESS, and a host of others. Should we all just be SAFe? But then maybe SAFe is just a glorified waterfall process for companies that “can’t handle real Agile”. SAFe, the Scaled Agile Framework, leverages the best of several well-established frameworks, including Lean, Kanban, and scrum. While SAFe is certainly intended for large, enterprise organizations delivering extremely complex and interdependent systems, many SAFe principles and practices can be used to improve much smaller teams. Join Angela in this workshop to gain a better understanding of the SAFe, and how teams can adopt SAFe principles and practices to improve the development, testing, and delivery of products.

Please join us on Wednesday January 27 in Burlington MA starting at 6:30 pm as senior enterprise agility coach Yuval Yeret describes several techniques that can be used to produce a lasting and productive adoption of the Scaled Agile Framework. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a powerful and popular framework for implementing agile at large scale across the enterprise. However many organizations see their implementation of SAFe stall and even backfire since the adoption is mandated from its organizational leaders, instead of engaged teams participating and choosing their SAFe. In this talk we will examine some dangerous implementation anti-patterns as well as healthier alternatives. You will learn some concrete techniques that help live up to the Lean/SAFe principles of respecting and engaging people. We will discuss field-proven ideas such as pull-based crossing the chasm approach to implementation, use of open space as part of the different SAFe ceremonies, and how Open Space Agility can combine with SAFe.

This document summarizes a webinar on introducing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). It discusses scaling agile from the team, program, and portfolio levels. It introduces SAFe values and how it draws from agile, lean, and product development flow principles. It also outlines the SAFe framework at each level including elements like Agile Release Trains, program increments, and upcoming SAFe training events.

Discover the foundations of the Scaled Agile Framework® Values, Principles, Practices and Implementation. For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe

This document provides an overview of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAF), which is a proven knowledge base for implementing agile practices at an enterprise scale. The SAF combines agile methodologies like Lean, Scrum, and Kanban. It has been successfully applied in programs with 50-100 people and in large enterprises with thousands of developers. The document discusses SAF roles, responsibilities, artifacts, and the Jira workflow used. It provides various resources for learning more about the SAF methodology.

Understanding and visualizing the flow of value in your organization is one of the first steps for implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) successfully. We align Agile Release Trains (ARTs) around value streams. In this webinar we will look at understanding what a value stream is, why it is important and how to align agile release trains to value streams.

The adoption of Agile is spreading across various industries, in organizations of all sizes. However, most experts agree that scaling Agile for enterprise use is a challenge. SAFe®, the Scaled Agile Framework, was created to resolve this problem. SAFe® provides a fully controlled way to adopt and scale Agile across large companies, and to align Agile processes to business strategy. The Scaled Agile Framework's latest edition 4.0 introduces the optional Value Stream level to synchronize all the Agile Release Trains, as well as other updates compared to SAFe® 3.0. Our webinar helps you to learn more about implementing enterprise Agile with the Scaled Agile Framework, and the differences between SAFe®'s previous versions and its recently released 4.0.

This is a brief introduction to Scaled Agile Framework - covers about some of the other Scaling approaches

Presentation given at Dallas Agile Leadership Network Meetup on 24th October 2013. http://www.meetup.com/Dallas-ALN/events/144390642/

To compete in today’s application economy, organizations have adopted agile execution techniques. But is that enough? Learn about SAFe and how to leverage this methodology to elevate your agile teams to deliver quality outcomes and align at the enterprise level. For more information, please visit http://cainc.to/Nv2VOe

The document discusses the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for implementing agile practices in complex enterprise projects. It presents SAFe as an option for organizations that have multiple Scrum teams or one team with independent threads. The core values and principles of SAFe are described, including the release train, program increment planning, and that it focuses on Lean-Agile leadership. Some limitations are that SAFe requires Scrum practices within teams and training for both teams and management to understand and apply the framework effectively.

Salesforce DevOps: Streamlining Development Processes

DevOps gained entry in the software development domain, where the focus is to synergize development and operations teams and thus make the development process streamlined and efficient. The productivity levels are increased and superior products are delivered. In this article, you will get to know what are the differences between DevOps and Agile.

Frank Frambach presented on DevOps and testing. Some key points: 1. DevOps is driven by digital business models that require faster development and delivery of new features. 2. The DevOps Agile Skills Association (DASA) provides a competence model and certification program to develop high-performing IT professionals in DevOps. 3. Testing is an important part of DevOps and is integrated into several areas of the DASA competence model, including test specification, programming, and infrastructure engineering. 4. Bob, a tester, is shown undertaking a journey through the DASA model, first learning about DevOps and then developing his skills in related areas to transition into a DevOps

Implementing Azure DevOps With Your Testing Project Are you challenged with different teams working on different platforms making it difficult to get insight into another team’s work? Is your team seeking ways to automate the code deployments so you can spend more time developing new features and writing more tests, and spend less time deploying and running manual tests? RTTS, a Microsoft Gold DevOps Partner, will take you through solving these challenges with Azure DevOps. Tuesday, June 16th 2020 @11am ET Session Overview ------------------------------------ During the webinar, we will walk you through the following process of utilizing Azure DevOps: - The challenges that inspired the Azure DevOps solution that you may experience as well - The strategy for implementing Azure Devops - Solutions in our every day processes to increase our times efficiency and save time - A demo of an Azure DevOps environment for testing teams The see a recording of the webinar, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vIic3wxaS4 To learn more about RTTS, please visit: https://www.rttsweb.com

Organizations can achieve astounding results when they successfully combine Agile and DevOps. Even though these are two very different things, using a DevOps team and the Agile approach together can help to develop a strong market for software products. These approaches can guarantee no software downtime or discrepancies, as well as a quicker SDLC when they are properly combined.

Scaling Agile is easily misunderstood. Scaling is the term we often hear used to describe using Agile methods with large enterprises. Larger enterprises often deal with bigger and more complex problems than small ones. They have more employees, subcontracting companies, different business units, more processes and a strong culture that defines how things are done. At the same time, they need to be able to deliver results in an ever-changing business environment. They need to be Agile but the bigger the company, the bigger the challenges are for scaling Agile. Scaling frameworks available in the market today are maturing quickly and provide a variety of choices. Like the Agile Manifesto, these frameworks are based on principles, and they vary widely in the specificity of the recommended approach. In this session, we will compare how two scaling frameworks, LeSS and SAFe, address the challenges of agility at scale. We will talk about how these two frameworks align, coordinate, and manage dependencies across multiple teams to maintain consistency and agility at scale.

DevOps is a CULTURAL and OPERATIONAL model that fosters COLLABORATION to ENABLE high-performance IT to ACHIEVE business goals.

Software refers to a set of instructions given to a computer for it to work. The process of creating, designing, deploying and supporting the software through a set of activities or strategic themes is called Software Development. This process involves a number of methodologies/frameworks/sub-process that helps to simplify the complex activities involved in creating a product.

DevOps is introduced to make the process of continuous delivery possible for large enterprises. It is a mindset developed to overcome the constant digital disruption occurred in companies that desire to maintain continuous delivery systems for their customers. Implementing SAFe became possible with DevOps work culture and navigating complexities prevailed in enterprises.

Presentation from SAFE@Space conference on 2018.11.06. Some differences between SAFe and LeSS framework. Some difficult questions.

If you're considering moving to Team Foundation Server or Visual Studio Team Services, this deck will walk you through the highlights, of which there are a TON!

This document discusses enabling teams to adopt new skills like DevOps, Agile, and CX through communities of practice. It recommends identifying change agents to evangelize skills, piloting with a delivery team, and designing reusable toolkits. An enablement team would embed with existing stable teams to provide coaching and training using templates, tools, and best practices. Success is measured by teams learning and applying the new skills. The document then provides an example presentation from a DevOps enablement team, outlining what DevOps is, what it looks like, and how organizations can get there through assessments, backlogs, enablement teams, and rolling it out to delivery teams over time with reassessments.