Events
A critical, regular event where integrated work of an entire ART is showcased to stakeholders.
What is System Demo?
Tracks the amount of work remaining against time to show progress towards a goal.
What is a Burndown Chart?
This role is tactical and execution-oriented focusing on the what and how for a single Agile team.
Who is the Product Owner?
Openly sharing progress and failures to allow for rapid course correction.
What is Transparency?
Further the exploration, infrastructure, and architecture development activities needed to support business functionality.
What are Enablers?
A weekly or bi-weekly meeting to coordinate dependencies, adjust backlog priorities, and address risks.
What is Product Owner/Product Manager Sync?
A user-centric methodology using Empathy and Customer Journey Maps to define desirable and feasible solutions.
What is Design Thinking?
The technical leader at the program level who balances the need for immediate feature delivery with the long-term health of the system.
Who is the System Architect?
A set of values and practices that encourages individuals to continually increase knowledge, competence, performance, and innovation.
What is Continuous Learning Culture (CLC)?
A service provided by the system that fulfills stakeholder needs and can be delivered by a single Agile Release Train (ART).
What is a feature?
Purpose is to align the ART's progress with the broader strategic objectives of the organization.
What is Portfolio Sync?
Tools like Ishikawa or Five Whys are used for this purpose.
What is Root Cause Analysis?
This role is strategic and market-oriented focusing on content and value acting as the "voice of the customer".
Who is the Product Manager?
List of ten immutable, fundamental truths that drive the roles and practices that make SAFe effective such as organizing around value.
What are SAFe Principles?
Method used to visualize and manage the analysis, prioritization, and flow of program epics and features for a single ART.
What is a Program Kanban?
This event includes three activities consisting of the System Demo, Quantitative & Qualitative Measurement, and the Retrospective & Problem-Solving Workshop which are held at the end of every PI?
What is Inspect & Adapt (I&A)?
Aligns scope, timelines, and capacity across multiple teams during PI Planning.
What are Roadmaps or Gantt Charts?
Senior leader or executive who has the primary responsibility for Return of Investment (ROI), governance, and compliance for an Agile Release Train (ART).
Who is the Business Owner?
Mindset that fosters collaboration, speeds up delivery, and improves quality by uniting teams, reducing risks, and establishing fast feedback loops.
What is CALMR (Culture, Automation, Lean Flow, Measurement, and Recovery)?
A significant initiative that affects multiple value streams and ARTs that may be classified as business or enabler.
What is an Epic?
Weekly or Bi-weekly event that consists of Product Owner Sync and Scrum of Scrums.
What is the ART Sync?
A bar graph showing frequency or cost in descending order, often combined with a cumulative line used to prioritize problems by identifying 80% of outcomes that results from 20% of the causes.
A servant leader and coach who operates at the program level to ensure multiple teams work together harmoniously to deliver value.
Who is the Agile Release Train Engineer (RTE)?
A set of eight practices designed to identify and eliminate impediments, ensuring continuous value to the customer like addressing bottlenecks.
What are Flow Accelerators?
A powerful, flexible search language used to create advanced, custom queries for issues that can also be saved as a filter.
What is Jira's Query's Language (JQL)?