Global Summit 2019 – Applying WSJF in SAFe – The Financial Impact of WSJF

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Hear Joe Vallone, SAFe Fellow and SPCT, and Don Reinertsen, author of Principles of Product Development Flow discuss how to apply WSJF in a SAFe context using dollars, not just Fibonacci numbers, and how to involve finance in WSJF conversations.

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Hear Joe Vallone, SAFe Fellow and SPCT, and Don Reinertsen, author of Principles of Product Development Flow discuss how to apply WSJF in a SAFe context using dollars, not just Fibonacci numbers, and how to involve finance in WSJF conversations.

Joe Vallone and Don Reinertsen discuss the use of cost of delay and weighted shortest job first within the SAFe context. Because the cost of delay is denominated in Fibonacci numbers instead of dollars, it presents a disadvantage in communicating with finance people and higher level management. This episode covers how you take the very useful formulation you have today and how you can extend it into something that is more salient to the financial organization.

Hosted by: Joe Vallone

Joe Vallone is an experienced Agile Coach

Joe Vallone is an experienced Agile Coach and Trainer and has been involved in the Lean and Agile communities since 2002. Mr. Vallone has helped coach several large-scale Agile transitions at Zynga, Apple, Microsoft, VCE, Nokia, AT&T, and American Airlines. Prior to founding Agile Business Connect, Joe Vallone served as an Agile Coach at Ciber, CTO/CIO of We The People, and the VP of Engineering for Telogical Systems.

Guest: Don Reinertsen

Don Reinertsen is the President of Reinertsen and Associates, a consulting firm specialized in the management of product development. He has worked with leading product development organizations for over 35 years, and taught executive courses at Caltech for 15 years. He is the author/co-author of three best-selling books on product development, and is considered one of the leading thinkers in the field of lean product development. His latest award winning book, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development, has been praised as, ‘… quite simply the most advanced product development book you can buy.’