Mapping Organisational Roles with SAFe
Mapping of traditional development roles to the new ones in SAFe can be challenging. Role mapping requires consideration of not only hard and soft skills, but also key competencies, and other attributes. A successful transition strategy requires that people understand the SAFe transformation vision and timing, how their role will change, and most importantly, that they feel secure in their job.
In this session, we will cover:
• Creating the transformation vision that motivates and compels people to participate in the transformation
• How you should go about informing people about the new SAFe roles
• The timing for when you begin to discuss role changes
• Patterns for mapping traditional roles to SAFe roles
• The key competencies and attributes of the critical SAFe roles and patterns for sourcing people and reporting structure
Measuring Business Value with SAFe
Continuously delivering business value is the goal of every enterprise. Measuring that business value is how an organization learns what is working, and when to pivot or persevere. This session discusses PI Objectives for the continuous flow of business value and how it is leveraged as one of the most critical drivers in SAFe.
In this session, you will learn:
- The challenges of measuring business value using traditional approaches
- The importance of PI Objectives as a proxy for business value
- Two common methods of assigning business value to PI Objectives in PI Planning
- Using PI Objectives in the Inspect and Adapt to measure predictability and identify opportunities for improvement
Previous webinars in our free series:
1) Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) ®
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- Business Agility represents the ability of an organisation to rapidly respond to changing market conditions and continuously deliver products and services that meet evolving customer demands.
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) supports enterprises in realising this goal by providing a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for Lean, Agile, and DevOps.
In this webinar we explored:
- The role Lean-Agile Leadership plays in driving and sustaining organisational change by empowering individuals and teams to reach their highest potential.
- How to create Strategic Alignment across development teams and the importance of organising around value to improve quality and accelerate delivery.
- Approaches to building in Fast Learning to continuously validate that we are delighting customers and meeting the needs of the business
2) Product Management in SAFe: Building Solutions that Delight Our Customers
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Lean enterprises focus on delivering the right solutions to customers with the highest quality in the shortest sustainable lead time. This requires people with explicit content authority to take responsibility for continuously defining, prioritizing, and validating requirements. Working closely with development, in short, integrated learning cycles, Product Management brings the voice of the customer to the developers and the voice of development to the customer.
In this session, we covered:
- How SAFe uses Kanban systems to create alignment from strategy to execution.
- Setting a vision, creating a roadmap and continuously exploring customer needs.
- Defining an MVP and writing and prioritizing features
- Balancing business features whilst also investing in architectural runway
- Releasing value on demand and generating customer feedback
