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4 Benefits of Building High-Quality Products
1. Higher customer satisfaction
2. Improved velocity and delivery predictability
3. Better system performance
4. Improved ability to innovate, scale, and meet compliance requirements
5 Dimensions of built-in quality
1. Flow
2. Architecture & Design Quality
3. Code Quality
4. System Quality
5. Release Quality
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4 Lean Budget Guardrails
1. Guiding investments by horizon
2. Applying capacity allocation to optimize value and solution integrity
3. Approving significant initiatives
4. Continuous Business Owner engagement
Implementation Roadmap Steps - SAFe 5.1
1) Reaching the Tipping Point
2) Train Lean-Agile Change Agents
3) Train Executives, Managers, and Leaders
4) Create a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence
5) Identify Value Streams and ARTs
6) Create the Implementation Plan
7) Prepare for ART Launch
8) Train Teams and Launch the ART
9) Coach ART Execution
10) Launch More ARTs and Value Streams
11) Extend to the Portfolio
12) Accelerate
SAFe 5.1 Core Values
- Alignment
- Transparency
- Built-in Quality
, - Program Execution
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7 Core Competencies of SAFe 5.1
➤ Lean-Agile Leadership
➤ Team and Technical Agility
➤ Agile Product Delivery
➤ Enterprise Solution Delivery
➤ Lean Portfolio Management
➤ Organizational Agility
➤ Continuous Learning Culture
Lean-Agile Leadership
A competency which describes how Lean-Agile Leaders drive and sustain organizational change and
operational excellence by empowering individuals and teams to reach their highest potential.
Three Dimensions:
1. Mindset & Principles - Align (growth)-mindset, words, and actions to Lean-Agile values and principles
2. Leading by Example - Inspire others by modeling desired behaviors
3. Leading Change - Actively lead the change and guide others to the new way of working
Team and Technical Agility
A competency which describes the critical skills and Lean-Agile principles and practices that high-
performing Agile teams and Teams of Agile teams use to create high-quality solutions for their
customers.
Three Dimensions:
1. Agile Teams - High-performing, cross-functional, Agile teams
2. Built-In Quality - Quality business solutions delight customers
3. Team of Agile Teams - Business and technical teams build business solutions - operate within context
of an Agile Release Train (ART).
Agile Product Delivery
A competency which describes a customer-centric approach to defining, building, and releasing a
continuous flow of valuable products and services to customers and users.
Three Dimensions:
1. Customer Centricity and Design Thinking - The customer is the center of your product strategy
2. Develop on Cadence; Release on Demand - Helps manage variability in product development.
Decoupling the release of value assures customers get what the need when they need it.
3. DevOps (DevSecOps) and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline - (double infinity image) Continuous