Mission Impossible: Banking on a SAFe QuickStart

Em Campbell-PrettyPartner, Context Matters

@PrettyAgile www.prettyagile.comau.linkedin.com/in/ejcampbellpretty/em@contextmatters.com.au

Banking on a SAFe QuickStart

Welcome to

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Who will be the RTE?

How will we get to teams of 7 +/- 2?

Who is in the System Team? Who is the System

Architect?

How will Product Management work?

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Top 10 features

Vision

Pro

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klog

Capacity Allocation for this PI

New Features

Architecture

Capacity Allocation

Product Owner

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SAFeScrumMaster

Orientation

SAFe Product Owner

Orientation

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4 Train everyone at the same time

4 Same instructor, same method

4 Most cost effective

4 Align all teams to common objectives

4 Commitment

4 Continue training during planning

4 Orientation for specialty roles

4 Open spaces

4 Tool training for teams

Tool training

Go.SAFe.Now.

Training: SAFe for Teams

Prepare

PI Planning

THE QUICKSTART – A ONE WEEK LAUNCH

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SAFeScrumMaster

Orientation

SAFe Product Owner

Orientation

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Tool training

Training: SAFe for Teams

PI Planning

ADAPTING THE PLAN

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60 people8 teams2 days

2 trainers1 room

1 Agile Release Train

When you turned up and sat through the whole two days of team level training with us, we knew you were

serious about SAFe!

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PI PLANNING

HOW DID THE TEAMS FEEL ABOUT THE PROCESS?

WHERE ARE WE NOW?

• Team Engagement ↑

• Business Engagement ↑

• Cycle time ↓

• Defects ↓

AND THE RESULTS….

• A lot of pre-work goes into a ”one-week” launch and its hard to do this with a part time RTE.

• Executive buy in is essential.• How you start sets the standard for how you

continue.• Teams buy in when their leadership shows up and

participates. • Triple check that everyone is scheduled to get the

training they need to do their job.• You can take 100 odd people on a journey from

waterfall to agile in one week!

LESSONS LEARNT

Em Campbell-PrettyPartner, Context Matters

@PrettyAgile www.prettyagile.comau.linkedin.com/in/ejcampbellpretty/em@contextmatters.com.au

QUESTIONS?