Saket Bansal talking about SAFe : Scaling Workshop 4 of 5
Channel: OGuild
Date: 22/05/2015

In this video, Saket Bansal talks about Introduction of SAFe. 

In the past videos we talked about how to make multiple teams work together – coordination, management, engagement, etc. to be put in place.

Here we talk about enterprise level scaling – how to ensure business case for which a project or initiative has been started is getting implemented by management etc. How do we integrate people who are doing portfolio with the team who are doing development? 

In case of skilled agile framework – talks about how to integrate business initiative with an execution. 

Core values:
Program execution
Alignment
Code quality
Transparency

Thoughts on Agile Methods:
Scrum
Extreme Programming
Kanban

Content Management:
Requirement – Business / Stakeholder / Functional

Project Delivery:
Program Increment - Release Planning Meeting - Agree on Program Increment objective
At a team level – create team backlog
Every sprint – team works as per team backlog – follow all three roles; scrum master, product owner, team
System team – creates an integrated demo for program management – responsible only for technical integration
Term called CADENCE – Rhythm, flow, time-boxing – CADENCE means predictability

Nothing beats an Agile Team 

Systems must be Managed – need to have a common goal

Goal of our training and education is to give you a direction.