Extensive Leading SAFe 6 summary

Contents
Lesson 1: Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility ............................................................... 3
1.1 Thriving in the digital age ...................................................................................................... 3
1.2 SAFe as an operating system for Business Agility .................................................................. 4
SAFe core competencies (7) .................................................................................................. 5
Lesson 2 Building a foundation with mindset, values, and principles .............................................. 7
2.1 The Lean-Agile Mindset........................................................................................................ 8
2.1.1 Lean thinking ................................................................................................................ 9
2.1.2 Agile development ...................................................................................................... 11
2.2 SAFe core values (4); ......................................................................................................... 11
2.3 - SAFe Lean-Agile principles (10) ........................................................................................ 12
1) Take an economic view: deliver early and often ................................................................. 13
2) Apply system thinking ...................................................................................................... 15
3) Assume variability; preserve options ................................................................................ 16
4) Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles ................................................... 17
5) Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems ............................................ 18
6) Make value flow without interruption ................................................................................ 19
7) Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning .................................................. 22
8) Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers ....................................................... 25
9) Decentralize decision-making .......................................................................................... 25
10) Organize around value ................................................................................................... 26
Lesson 3: Establishing Team and Technical Agility ....................................................................... 28
3.1 Forming cross-functional Agile Teams................................................................................ 28
3.2 Built-in Quality .................................................................................................................. 32
3.3 Organizing Agile Release Trains (ART) around the flow of value ............................................ 33
Lesson 4: Building Solutions with Agile Product Delivery .............................................................. 36
4.1 Customer Centricity & Design Thinking .............................................................................. 37
4.2 Prioritizing the ART backlog ................................................................................................ 39
4.3 PI Planning (Planning Interval Planning) .............................................................................. 45
4.4 Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand ......................................................................... 51
4.5 Building a Continuous Delivery Pipeline with DevOps ......................................................... 55
Lesson 5: Exploring Lean Portfolio Management .......................................................................... 58


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, 5.1 Defining a SAFe portfolio ................................................................................................... 59
5.2 Connecting the portfolio to the Enterprise strategy ............................................................. 60
5.3 Maintaining the Portfolio Vision .......................................................................................... 61
5.4 Realizing the Portfolio Vision through Epics ........................................................................ 62
5.5 Establishing Lean Budgets and Guardrails .......................................................................... 63
5.6 Establishing portfolio flow ................................................................................................. 65
Lesson 6: Leading the Change .................................................................................................... 67
6.1 Leading by example ........................................................................................................... 67
6.2 Leading the change ........................................................................................................... 68
Exam ......................................................................................................................................... 69




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,Leading SAFe 6.0
Rob Kastelein
Jessica Hermansson – Sweden.

Questions: 45, Pass rate: 80%, Duration: 90 minutes, Language: English.

Kennis hebben is macht, kennis delen is kracht
ELMO – Enough, let’s move on


Lesson 1: Thriving in the Digital Age with Business Agility
Learning objectives

At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
• Describe what is necessary to thrive in the digital age
• Recognize SAFe as an operating system for Business Agility
• Explore the seven core competencies of Business Agility

1.1 Thriving in the digital age




We started with a network, and we added hierarchy for stability and execution.
Result; clash. We need a dual operating system for Business Agility
And we have just such an operating system at our fingertips

“The solution is not to trash what we know and start over but instead to reintroduce, in an organic
way, a second system— one which would be familiar to most successful entrepreneurs."
John P. Kotter, Accelerate



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, 1.2 SAFe as an operating system for Business Agility
“Every business is a software business now. Achieving a state of Business Agility means that the
entire organization—not just development—is engaged in continually and proactively delivering
innovative business solutions faster than the competition.” - Dean Leffingwell, Creator of SAFe

https://scaledagileframework.com/business-agility/




Lean/Agile start up cycle to start something new

Business agility value stream
• Sense opportunity: close to customer/market. Gemba walks. Go see, spend time with
customer, market research
o Example go see; how could we include and innovate good solutions, must bring
developers to the actual factory and see what are we doing here? What are the co-
workers experience in the day-to-day work
• Fund MVP: minimum viable product. Smallest, easiest solution is that we can market and value
from. Big innovative idea; do not do it in once. We try to find the smallest part of the solutions
that we can start with to true a business hypothesis. Lean portfolio management. Quite short
period. Sometimes minimal viable feature.
• Organize around value: people with the right skills and competence. Group with values. Build
teams in teams in the ART.
• Connect to customer: after the market research and ‘go see’, keep the customer close;
desirable, feasible, viable, sustainable.
• Deliver MVP: continuous delivering pipeline. Have those lean agile practices implemented.
Continuous deliver value
• Pivot or persevere: decision point. Check the business hypothesis. Is it valuable enough? Will
it give us an improved status. Persevere; continue. Pivot; stop, and go to a new idea. Do this in
a fast lean up start up cycle; reduce risk, continuously test new business hypothesis to find
something that is innovative and disruptive.
• Deliver value continuously:



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