WILLIAM ROJAS MANAGING CONSULTANT Scaling agile with SAFe® and Atlassian tools
WILLIAM ROJAS
MANAGING CONSULTANT
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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