Updated Lean Portfolio Management and Value Stream Coordination
November 1, 2017
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Dean Leffingwell
Hi Folks, If you’ve been around us for awhile, you know we know that SAFe is a work in progress, a living breathing thing—improving, progressing. While for practical reasons, we obviously can’t change the SAFe Big Picture every time we have a new idea (sometimes I miss those days!), we can and do innovate behind the BP as rapidly as our knowledge evolves. Currently, we have many active areas of new and ongoing IP development—SAFe.
SAFe Enterprise Backlog Structure and Management
- October 31, 2017
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Dean Leffingwell
Hi Folks, Good news is that SAFe is an effective, freely-revealed, and (deep) knowledge repository for Lean-Agile development at enterprise scale. Bad news is that, given the just-in-time and just-for-me random access nature of the knowledge base, it has a hard time ‘telling its own story.’ In other words, even with the Big Picture, it isn’t always obvious how the various pieces and parts work together to create the full system that makes SAFe actually work..
New SPC Toolkit for Scalable DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline
- October 31, 2017
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Jennifer Fawcett
The DevOps movement is here, and SAFe enterprises look to this mindset, culture and sets of principles and technical practices as a way to move from traditional delivery approaches to empowering Agile Release Trains to continuously deliver value to their end users. With the movement maturing, the availability of Gene Kim’s The DevOps Handbook, and the realization of DevOps and Continuous Delivery in SAFe 4.5, a wealth of knowledge is now available to enable enterprises.
Field Notes from SAFe Thought Leaders
- October 31, 2017
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Dean Leffingwell
We continue to be impressed with the thought leadership continuously being generated by many of our SPCTs and SAFe Contributors. They are the people working ‘in the trenches’ on major implementations of SAFe, and the insights gained from those engagements are invaluable. So today we’re launching a new series of blogs to help share that knowledge with the community. They themselves can best express what they’ve been learning, with little editorial guidance from me, so.
New Lean-Agile Architecture Toolkit for SPCs
- October 25, 2017
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Dean Leffingwell
Momentum is critical as you launch your Agile Release Trains (ARTs), and one of the biggest momentum killers is having people on the team who don’t understand their role or their contribution, or who do not have clear expectations of how their lives will change as a result of a SAFe implementation. Every participant in SAFe deserves to understand their role and the benefits they bring to their colleagues, but perhaps software and solution architects have.
My 2017 SAFe Summit Keynote
- October 23, 2017
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Dean Leffingwell
“Whoosh goes that small batch size through your big system.” Hi folks, As you may have heard, we had an amazing Summit this year, with over a thousand participants gathering in San Antonio to talk ‘all things SAFe’ for five days. Here’s some quantitative highlights: Agenda highlights included truly inspirational keynotes from Mel Robbins, Gene Kim, and Don Reinertsen. Preparing for my keynote was a bit challenging. I had a 50-minute time box. If you.
InfoQ Interview with Richard Knaster and Dean Leffingwell
- October 19, 2017
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Richard Knaster
Hi Folks, Ben Linders from InfoQ recently interviewed us about SAFe Distilled, including our broader views about scaling Agile development in the large enterprise. The interview provides a good perspective on why businesses need SAFe and why we wrote the new SAFe Distilled book.’ Please click here to read the interview and to get a free preview of SAFe Distilled. We trust that you will find this interview to be interesting and useful and that it.
Capital One reimagines product and delivery through SAFe
- October 18, 2017
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Dean Leffingwell
“The products we’re developing are bigger than one Agile team. For the teams to interact and plan together, we really needed SAFe as the foundation. It brings the practices and methodologies to coordinate multiple teams working on the same product at the same time.” —Mike Eason, CIO, Commercial Banking Capital One started as a small and nimble company in the mid ‘90s. But as it grew to become one of America’s best-known brands, it.
SAFe Takes off at Thales InFlyt, doubling frequency of releases in a highly regulated industry
- October 12, 2017
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Dean Leffingwell
“The great thing about SAFe is that we have a structure in place to deliver better quality more rapidly. We can easily share with our customers and OEMs how Lean-Agile is a part of what we do.” —Celie Navatel, VP Quality and Customer Satisfaction at Thales InFlyt Experience Breaking free from large batches is tough for any organization—and all the more so when you’re developing complex hardware and software solutions in the highly regulated airline.
Africa’s largest bank leverages SAFe to improve time-to-market 23X, decreases cost 77%
- October 10, 2017
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Dean Leffingwell
“SAFe provided the structure we needed to scale Agile enterprise-wide. It addressed the complexities and gave us the framework for building portfolios, roles, and jobs to achieve our goals for productivity, morale, and quality.” —Alex Keyter, Lean Agile Transformation Consultant (SPC), Standard Bank At Africa’s largest banking group, getting IT projects across the finish line hasn’t always been easy—especially with 600 projects a year. But in our latest case study, Standard Bank shares how SAFe.
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