Show Notes: Episode 3

SAFe in the News

From business strategies to successful IT delivery

Daniel Lambert, CIO.com (ICN)
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• Architects and agile teams often work in silos to the detriment of organizations
• Architects can prioritize strategic initiatives from other initiatives by identifying key but problematic business capabilities using value streams and several measurement techniques. Architects can also decompose value stages defining a value stream into sub value-stages and breakdown business capabilities into sub-capabilities several levels deep for further exploration, refinement and precision
• Finally, architects can detect, signal and eliminate duplicated sub-projects or sprints that can appear in different Agile Release Trains (‘ART’).
• Business and enterprise architects can be instrumental in the delivery of sophisticated projects with their ability to accomplish these following four tasks:
  • Prioritize strategic initiatives,
  • Decompose high level value stream/value stages and business capabilities,
  • Assist in defining epics and user stories using architecture model elements, and finally
  • Eliminate sub-projects or sprints duplicates.

Want to learn how System, Solution, and Enterprise Architects can engage across the organization  to collaboratively deliver architectural solutions? Check out the new SAFe for Architects course at scaledagile.com/architects

SAFe in the Trenches

We discuss Value Stream identification, the issues with it and how to overcome common struggles.
Current SPCs – don’t forget the Value Stream and DevOps Workshop Toolkits are available for you to download at community.scaledagile.com

Audio CoP

The Audio Community of Practice section of the show is where we answer YOUR most frequently asked and submitted questions. If you have a question for us to answer on air, please send it to podcast@scaledagile.com
The two questions we answer in this episode are:

• What is WSJF and why is it a critical part of SAFe?
• Can SAFe be customized and if so, how?