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Scaled Agile Framework
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a set of principles, practices, and competencies for scaling Agile methodologies to large enterprises. It provides a framework for organizing and coordinating the work of multiple Agile teams and aligning their efforts with the larger goals of the organization.
Implementing the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) requires a comprehensive approach that involves several steps. Here is a general outline of the steps involved in implementing SAFe:
- Assessment and Planning: The first step is to assess the current state of your organization's processes, culture, and capabilities. This will help you identify the areas where SAFe can be implemented and the specific challenges that need to be addressed. Based on the assessment, you should develop a roadmap for SAFe implementation, identifying the teams that will be involved, the timelines, and the milestones.
- Education and Training: Once you have a roadmap in place, the next step is to educate your teams and stakeholders about SAFe. This can include training on SAFe principles, practices, and tools. It is important to ensure that everyone understands the benefits of SAFe and how it can help your organization achieve its goals.
- Pilot Project: Before implementing SAFe across your entire organization, it is advisable to run a pilot project. This can help you identify any potential issues or challenges that may arise during implementation. It is important to select a pilot project that is representative of the work done across your organization and involve a cross-functional team.
- Rollout: Once you have successfully completed the pilot project, you can start rolling out SAFe across your organization. This can be done in a phased approach, starting with the teams that are most ready for SAFe adoption. It is important to provide ongoing support and training to ensure that the teams are following SAFe practices correctly.
- Continuous Improvement: SAFe is a continuous improvement framework, so it is important to continuously monitor and evaluate the implementation. This can include regular retrospectives, tracking key metrics, and making adjustments to the SAFe implementation as needed.
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Continuous Improvement: SAFe is a continuous improvement framework, so it is important to continuously monitor and evaluate the implementation. This can include regular retrospectives, tracking key metrics, and making adjustments to the SAFe implementation as needed.
What is value stream?
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“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a value stream, you don’t know what you’re doing.”
- KAREN MARTIN AND MIKE OSTERLING
A Value Stream is simply the sequence of all of the activities that an organization takes to deliver on a customer need — and all of the people, systems, and resources required to do those activities.
The term Value Stream originated in the Lean manufacturing movement to describe and optimize how material and information flows. Customers may be external or internal, and are whoever receives the value created by the Value Stream. The concept of Value Streams is foundational to the Project to Product movement and SAFe, as well as essential to any Agile and DevOps transformation. So how is this seemingly simple concept different from a traditional approach to business process and organization? Most organizations today are not organized around the flow of value and are instead organized into functional silos, each working on different slices of value in an asynchronous fashion. The way work is delivered may be known and documented, but the organization isn’t aligned to it or focused on optimizing that value flow.
Value Stream Management (VSM) transforms the organization by moving beyond siloed, isolated departments and temporal project teams, to high-performing Agile and DevOps teams and teams-of-teams, working together, minimizing hand-offs and dependencies, and focused on relentless improvement across the organization.
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