Mission Control
SAFe Harbor
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100

This core responsibility establishes guardrails around spending, epic approval, and WIP limits. It also helps maintain a balance between run-the-business and change-the-business investments.

What is lean portfolio governance?

100

This meeting is usually between 15 - 30 minutes long, and happens every day.

What is daily stand up?

100

It's important for epic owners to look our for these, which may cause some bumps in the road when not addressed.

What are cross-team dependencies or risks?

100

This role is accountable for defining and managing large initiatives from concept to implementation.

Who is the epic owner?

100

This team member recently hiked to the Mount Everest base camp, and lived to tell the tale.

Who is Anand Magadi?

200

This core responsibility supports the translation of strategic themes and business objectives into actionable epics.

What is strategy execution alignment?

200

SAFe recommends organizing around these to improve flow and value delivery?

What are value streams?

200

We ensure every strategic initiative starts here, in this key Jira Align artifact.

What is an epic?

200
Responsible for maximizing product value, this role bridges the gap between customer needs and the development teams.

Who is the Product Manager?

200

This team member played the bassoon in both high school and college. They have also played the piano, flute, clarinet, french horn, and tuba.

Who is Christina Pickard?

300

As a Lean Portfolio Management team, our goal is to deliver the highest possible value through this process in Jira Align.

What is prioritization of portfolio epics?

300

This SAFe event aligns teams on vision and priorities  every quarter.

What is PI planning?

300

Lean Portfolio Management is a liaison to this, or T-VMO for short.

What is the Technology Value Management Office?

300

This team member turns features into actionable stories and supports the team's day-to-day delivery.

Who is the Product Owner?

300

This CoHeart loves to go camping! They have explored campgrounds in over 20 US states, and last year completed an "epic" visit towing a travel trailer to the Badlands, Glacier, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons and Arches National Parks.

Who is Steve Reichenbach?

400

The lean portfolio management team promotes the use of lean-agile metrics and flow-based KPIs for portfolio health. We emphasize this to drive operational excellence, I&A sessions, and improvement backlogs at the portfolio level.

What is continuous improvement?

400

Portfolio-level epics in SAFe are commonly managed in this tool.

What is Jira Align?

400

Managing this is crucial for balancing demand and capacity across the portfolio.

What is the portfolio backlog?

400

Servant leader of the team, this role coaches agile practices and removes impediments.

Who is the Scrum Master?

400

This CoHeart had the opportunity to travel on Diplomat (a government official passport) to several countries for dance.

Who is Krithika Balakrishnan?

500

We foster lean governance and transparency by visualizing and managing portfolio flow with this key practice.

What is the portfolio kanban?

500

Southwest Airlines uses this version of the SAFe agile framework.

What is lean-agile?

500

The Lean Portfolio Management team aims to utilize these for better data management.

What are enterprise tools?

500
This role orchestrates ART events and ensures teams align and deliver value together.

Who is the Release Train Engineer?

500

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