Turning Point
Deployment Period
What is SAFe? - ANSWER SAFe as an operating system for Business Agility
Why SAFe? - ANSWER Happier Employees,
Increase in Productivity,
Faster Time to Market,
Defect Reduction
The Seven Core Competencies of Business Agility - ANSWER Left Side (Execution)
Enterprise Solution,
Agile Product Delivery,
Team And Technical Agility,
Right Side (Value)
Lean Portfolio Management,
Organizational Agility,
Continuous Learning Culture,
Lean-Agile Leadership
Exemplifying SAFe core values - ANSWER Alignment,
Transparency,
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,Built-in Quality,
Program Execution
SAFe House of Lean - ANSWER Roof - Value
Base - Leadership
L-R
Respect for people and culture
Flow
Innovation
Relentless improvement
Value - ANSWER Achieve the shortest sustainable lead time with:
► The best quality and value to people and society
► High morale, safety, and Customer delight
Respect for people and culture - ANSWER ► Generative culture
► People do all the work
► Your Customer is whoever consumes your work
► Build long-term partnerships based on trust
► To change the culture, you have to change the organization
Flow - ANSWER ► Optimize sustainable value delivery
► Build in quality
► Understand, exploit, and manage variability
► Move from projects to products
Innovation - ANSWER ► Innovative people
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, ► Provide time and space for innovation
► Go see
► Experimentation and feedback
► Innovation riptides
► Pivot without mercy or guilt
Relentless improvement - ANSWER ► A constant sense of danger
► Optimize the whole
► Problem-solving culture
► Base improvements on facts
► Reflect at key Milestones
Leadership - ANSWER ► Lead by example
► Adopt a growth mindset
► Exemplify the values and principles of Lean-Agile and SAFe
► Develop people
► Lead the change
► Foster psychological safety
The Agile Manifesto - ANSWER Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over contract
negotiation Responding to change over following a plan
The Agile Manifesto principles - ANSWER 1. Our highest priority is to satisfy the customer
through early and continuous delivery of valuable software.
2. Welcome changing requirements, even late in development. Agile processes harness
change for the customer's competitive advantage.
3. Deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a
preference for the shorter timescale.
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