…by adding acceptance criteria. Economic prioritization – Prioritized features enable effective development. The budget guardrails of capacity allocation, investment horizons, and continuous Business Owners engagement are critical in prioritization. PI…
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SAFe Beyond IT – Running the transformation using a SAFe Agile Release Train
…to join that few did. The reality is that these teams struggled with their PI predictability measure. It reached the point where people with a minimal capacity allocation were discouraged…
Enablers
…stream. Consequently, they deserve focused attention in the portfolio, from budgeting and capacity allocation through delivery and ongoing improvement. But because the actual value of enablers is tied to the…
Government – Adopting Lean Budgeting Aligned to Development Value Streams
…managing large government technology initiatives, only two things are almost certain: The actual funding allocation will be different than the previous year. The total will undoubtedly be different from the…
Advanced Topic – Portfolio Planning Tool
…actually be finished. Matching estimated load against capacity. Understanding and normalizing estimation of load and capacity is an important prerequisite to establishing flow of value delivery. Balancing centralized initiatives with…
Lean Portfolio Management
…to match the portfolio’s capacity. LPM uses the portfolio Kanban system to visualize and limit work-in-process (WIP), work in smaller batch sizes, and reduce the length of development queues. Successfully…
Enterprise
…budget allocations via EPM Coordinating Cross-Portfolio Initiatives New initiatives are generally contained within a single portfolio. Some initiatives, however, require the collaboration of multiple portfolios. Many are critical and not…
Advanced Topic – Enterprise Workflow with the SAFe Portfolio Kanban
…existing set of ARTs and/or Solution Trains) to increase or extend their budgets, or perhaps to reduce them as solution lifecycles naturally wane. Capacity allocation for maintenance, technical debt, and…
Lean Budgets
…value – In the pursuit of efficiency, everyone is assigned to 100% capacity, often to multiple projects. However, Reinertsen notes that “operating a product development process near full utilization is…
Advanced Topic – Enterprise Backlog Structure and Management
…Top n Features vetted with LOBs Prepare Executive Brief for PI Planning Feature refinement Top n Features discussed with SAs Enabler Capacity Allocation agreed Prepare product Vision/Roadmap Prepare Architecture Vision…