SAFe Principles

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What are the SAFe Principles

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T A A B B M A U D O

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Safe principles will guide teams on the path to the goal of the lean, which is

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Shortest sustainable lead time, with best quality and value to people and society

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Economics should inform and drive decisions at …… Levels

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All
Portfolio to Agile teams

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….. inform the oversight and governance that Guide on going spending decisions to support these higher level budgets

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Budget Guardrails

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four key components of SAFe’s economic framework:

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Operating within lean budgets and guardrails

Understanding solution economic trade-offs

Leveraging suppliers

Sequencing jobs for the maximum benefit

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,…… Define the boundaries within which solution train and art leaders make decisions on the definition, scope and sequence of epics capabilities and features

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Budgets and guardrails

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………. is the mechanism for gaining faster feedback and controlling the variability of solution development

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The plan-do-check-adjust (PDCA) cycle

the iterative learning cycle

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The plan-do-check-adjust (PDCA) cycle is also called

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The iterative learning cycle

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………….. reduce the cost of risk-taking by truncating unsuccessful paths quickly

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Shorter PDCA Cycles

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What are the benefits of Integrations points?

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Accelerate learning

Control Product Development

demonstrates evidence of the feasibility of the solution under development

Reduce Risk

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Any lack of integration points creates ………..

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a false sense of security.

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………. occurs when there is a smooth, linear, and fast movement of work product from step to step in a relevant value stream

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Flow

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Each integration point delivers its value by converting ………. into knowledge:

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uncertainty

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Which Flow accelerator can address confusion in priorities, frequent context switching, and increase in overhead.

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WIP Limit

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What are the 2 WIP corrective actions

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Make the current WIP visible to all stakeholders
Balance the amount of WIP against the available development capacity

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Which flow inhibitor limits the effective throughput of value

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Bottlenecks

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What causes the value stream to operate slowly and uneconomically, far below its potential capacity

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Bottlenecks

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Activities like value stream mapping, retros, and the I&A problem-solving workshop can help identify the root causes and potential solutions for which flow inhibitor?

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Handoffs and Dependencies

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The best solution to overcome …………. is to create teams and ARTs with all the knowledge, resources, skills, and decision-making authority to create an end-to-end flow of value

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handoffs and dependencies

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2 types pf feedback collected by PDCA cycle

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Feedback about building the right thing

Feedback about building it right

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The cost for delayed feedback, inventory decay, delayed value delivery

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Holding cost

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the cost of preparing and implementing the batch

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Transaction cost

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The economically optimal batch size depends on the …….. and ……. cost

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Holding cost and Transactional cost

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a leadership and technical discipline that enables the maximum flow of business value through the end-to-end solution delivery life cycle.

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Value stream management

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A …......... Is a continuous flow of new epics to Solution trains and ARTs to achieve the portfolio's vision and strategic themes

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Portfolio flow

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a rhythmic pattern of events that provides the steady heartbeat of the development process

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Cadence

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Converts unpredictable events into predictable occurrences and lowers cost

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Cadence

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................... allows multiple solution perspectives to be understood, resolved, and integrated at the same time.

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Synchronization

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Eight Flow Accelerators

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Visualize and Limit WIP Address/Remove Bottlenecks Minimie Handoffs and Dependencies Get Faster feedback Work in small batches Reduce queue length Optimize time in the Zone Remediate Legacy policies and practices

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cadence-based synchronized planning limits ..............to a single interval

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variability

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the drive to perform an activity without any obvious external rewards

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Intrinsic motivation

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Three critical intrinsic motivation factors

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Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose

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enabling intrinsic motivation requires ............... where knowledge workers can exercise autonomy, pursue mastery, and identify with a strong purpose

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an environment

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Increasing technical competence and organizational clarity enables

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decentralized decision-making

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Attributes of systems thinking

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Optimizing a component does not optimize the system For the system to behave well as a system, a higher-level understanding of behavior and architecture is required The value of a system passes through its interconnections A system can evolve no faster than its slowest integration point

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Requirements must be flexible to make ......... design choices

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economic

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Designs must be .......... to support changing requirements

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flexible

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Preservation of options improves ......... ..........

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economic results

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.......... facilitates learning and allows for continuous, cost-effective adjustments towards an optimum Solution.

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Set-Based Design

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Fast feedback accelerates ..............

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knowledge

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What problem do these indicate They force design decisions too early; this encourages false positive feasibility They assume a ‘point’ Solution exists and can be built correctly the first time They create huge batches and long queues, and they centralize requirements and design in program management

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The problem of phase-gate Milestones

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What principle helps achieve these outcomes Converts unpredictable events into predictable occurrences and lowers cost Makes waiting times for new work predictable Supports regular planning and cross-functional coordination Limits batch sizes to a single interval Controls injection of new work Provides scheduled integration points

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Cadence

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What principle helps achieve these outcomes ► Causes multiple events to happen simultaneously ► Facilitates cross-functional trade-offs ► Provides routine dependency management ► Supports full-system integration and assessment ► Provides multiple feedback perspectives

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Synchronization

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Three primary aspects of systems thinking

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The solution itself is a system The enterprise building that is building the system is a system too Optimize the full value stream

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A system can evolve no faster than its ............

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slowest integration point

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Any lack of integration points creates a

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false sense of security

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Objective evaluation of working systems is achieved through ....

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System Demos

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............... provides the opportunity for the various aspects of a solution—business and technical —to be integrated and evaluated together at one time.

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cross-domain planning