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WILLIAM ROJAS

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Scaling agile with SAFe® and Atlassian tools

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Why consider the Scaled AgileFramework for Enterprise®?

How SAFe® works

Strategy and conventions to break down work

Lean-agile practices for leadership and management

Structured delivery at scale

Builds on accepted agile roles and principles

SAFe® challenges and pitfalls

Balancing management visibility and team autonomy

Product-based funding

Budgeting and planning

Scale to Large Solutions

SAFe® challenges and pitfalls

Seeing products, not projects

Agile readiness and maturity

Breaking old patterns

A pragmatic solution for going SAFe®

No surprise: it’s about people,

processes, and tools

SAFe® is about people

Obtain executive sponsorship and buy-in

Understand top-down versus bottom-up transformation

Lead / transform by example

Experiment and excel

SAFe® education and concepts

Analysis of current practices

Definition of desired state

Gap between status quo and desired state

SAFe® is about process

And SAFe® is about tools too

SAFe® tool requirements

Issue tracking and management

Document collaboration

Development tools (e.g. SCM, CI / CD)

Quality and test automation

Release management

Production support (e.g. service desk software)

Monitoring and customer feedback

• Portfolio, Value Stream, Program, and Team backlogs

• SAFe® Level workflows

• Program Increment and Sprint planning

• Agile boards

• Release management

• Reporting

• Development tools integration for traceability

• Portfolio, Value Stream, Program, and Team spaces

• Templates for defining Portfolio Epics, Value Stream Capabilities, Program Features, and Team Stories

• Instant messaging with team members

• Ability to create channels for SAFe® Levels, teams, and cross-functional groups

• Ability to support products already in production

• Ability to accept feature requests and feedback from customers

The AdaptavistSAFe® environment

What’s next?

• Exists to bring agile to the enterprise

• Work orchestration platform with integrations with Jira and many other tools

• We have in-house expertise

• Excited for the next steps in its evolution and integration with Atlassian tools

• Visualise the relationship with data in SAFe® systems

• Ideal for ‘Mega PI’ planning

• A solution for feature-level planning and dependency visibility

• Arm uses it to plan across five Agile Release Trains

Visualscript Visualize PI planning boards for SAFe, project roll ups, and risk matrixes in real time

Summing up a pragmaticSAFe® solution

Connect business value all

the way to delivery for better enterprise planning

SAFe® sets out to align all levels of the enterprise

Plan effectively

Run complex initiatives

across many interconnected and disparate teams

Manage complexity

Reduce wasted effort on

initiatives that never make it to delivery

Develop efficiently

Support the success of agile

teams with compatible management practices

Empower teams

Continuous improvement mindset

SAFe adoption will be gradual, incremental, and evolutionary

Begin simply, test assumptions, inspect, and adapt over time

Assess goals and readiness

Keep a dogma-free zone

Remain flexible to learn

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