SAFe Framework
Program and Team Levels of SAFe
What is Essential SAFe?
Strategy and Investment Funding; Agile Portfolio Operations; Lean Governance
What is Lean Portfolio Management?
A description, a benefit hypothesis, acceptance criteria.
What is a Feature?
HiPPo, Squeaky Wheel, ROI
Non-economic-based approach to prioritizing work
OR
Anti-patterns for Prioritizing Work
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
What is the Agile Manifesto?
The SAFe Core Competency for the Program Level
Provides "Just the right amount" of analysis to support the definition of the Epic and request approval for investment
What is a Lean Business Case?
What is a Product Roadmap?
A visual representation of the flow of work
What is a Kanban?
We learn from our failures and we take the time to reflect and improve.
What is Commitment to Relentless Improvement (Pillar of the House of Lean)
What is Apply Systems Thinking (SAFe Principle #2)?
The person responsible for coordinating Epics through the Portfolio Kanban.
Who is the Epic Owner?
Responsible for prioritizing user stories in the team backlog and accepting work for the team.
Who is the Product Owner?
Business Value, Time Criticality, Risk Reduction/Opportunity Enablement
What is Cost of Delay?
Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
What is the Agile Manifesto (Principle #1).
Unlock the Intrinsic Motivation of knowledge workers
What is SAFe Principle #8.
A request for investment of a significant technical architecture initiative.
What is an Enabler Epic?
Responsible for aligning strategic vision with the Product Roadmap and prioritizing Features in the Program Backlog
Who is the Product Manager?
Cost of Delay / Job Size
What is the Weighted Shortest Job First or WSJF?
Respect for People and Culture, Flow, Innovation, and Relentless Improvement
What are the pillars of the SAFe House of Lean?
Continuous Exploration, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment.
What is the Continuous Delivery Pipeline?
Determining how much investment to put into various Value Streams, Strategic Themes, or Innovations.
What is Capacity Allocation? or
What is Lean Budgeting?
Benefit Hypothesis, Collaborative Design, Build MMF, and Evaluate
What are the steps in the Lean UX Process?
Recommended number of work items that should be in process at any given time in a specific stage of a Kanban.
What is a WIP Limit or WIP Constraint?
Autonomy, Mastery of Skill, and Purpose are ways to do this.
Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers (SAFe Principle #8)