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IBM & SAFe® Under the Hood

Agile @ Scale

Amy Silberbauer

Solution Architect, Enterprise Scaled Agile

Watson IoT ALM Offering Management Team

asilber@us.ibm.com

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Agenda

Process + Tools

Under the Hood

Something for Everybody!

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Process + Tools

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CLM with Built-In Enterprise Scaled Agile support

For more information: jazz.net/safe

• Get up and running quickly with

out-of-the-box infrastructure

to implement all levels of SAFe

• Simplify change to culture and process

with quick and easy access to SAFe

guidance

• Improve agility and predictability with

role-based dashboards for visibility to

continuously adjust business goals

• Easily customize to fit your specific

needs and organization

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SAFe® for Lean Enterprises (SAFe 4.5)

Four Configurations

Full SAFeLike 4-Level SAFe 4.0

Portfolio SAFeLike 3-Level SAFe 4.0

Large Solution SAFeNo Portfolio

Essential SAFeProgram & Teams Only

“Beta” templates

now available!

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Taxonomy

Solution Intent, Solution Context, Requirements (System, User, Non-

Functional), Lifecycle Scenarios (Acts, Scenes, Roles), Graphics (wireframes,

architecture), Models (link to Rhapsody/DM)

Test Suites, Test Plans, Test Cases

Epics, Capabilities, Features, Learning

Milestones, PI Objectives

Strategic Themes, Lean Business Cases, Value Streams, Programs, Vision

Solution Elaboration

Artifacts (RDNG)

Change Artifacts

(RTC)

Business Artifacts

(RDNG)

Quality Artifacts (RQM)

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High-Level

Domain

Model

Full SAFe

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Cross-

Functional

Traceability

Model

Full SAFe

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Under the Hood

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Manage dependencies through

reporting

“Soft”Dependencies –

Blocked for a reason

“Hard”dependencies

between work items

Blocking Program

Blocked Program

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Manage dependencies through

planning

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WIP Limits (green = ok, red

= violation!)

SAFe Kanban “queues”

Business (blue) and Enabler

(yellow) Epics

Kanban process enforced

through:

• WIP Limits: Warning

shown in red, Error

prevents violation

• Workflow: Inability to

move Epics in violation of

the process

• Calculated WSJF that

automatically sorts

Invest just enough within capacity to deliver –

quickly!

Analysis and Decision Making with Kanban

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Cost of Delay

User/Business Value

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Time Criticality

+

Risk Reduction/Opportunity

Enablement

Investment Job Size

Set WSJF Component Values - WSJF automatically recalculates and list of

Features is resorted

Focus on client value: WSJF-Ranked Backlog

Estimate the Story Points during

planning

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Meet objectives thanks to value-based

portfolio metrics

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Team-of-teams planningWhich team?

Which iteration?

Work breakdown

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Simple Team Planning

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“Definition of Done”

“Houston, we have a problem… “

A query widget on a dashboard alerts you to

the status – and violations! -- of your “definition of done”

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Roadmaps

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Roadmaps – Drilling into the details

Proposed and Planned PI

targets

Program work: Summary, Status

Support for agile and waterfall

Programs

Program doing the work

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Execution – Progress and Effort

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Progress & Estimation

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Velocity

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Something for everybody!

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For Practitioners: Manage all work in a single place

Select which project

to view at the

moment…

See @mentions and

other notifications

without going to email

Rank your own work

across all projects…

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For Scrum Masters and Product Owners: Quick, Simple Agile Planning

Drag & Drop toPlan Iterations

Rapidly create new work items

• Manage your work cross projects

• Rank your backlog

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For Portfolio, Program and Product Managers:

Orchestrate delivery across multiple,

interdependent teams based on business strategy

Strategy Alignment Roadmaps

Progress

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For Systems Engineers and Business Analysts: Elaborate solutions to drive value delivery … iteratively,

focused on MVP Define scenarios, requirements and

traceability to implementation and test

artifacts

And generate test plans from solution artifacts…

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For Quality Managers and Testers: Validate success and

acceptance criteria for solution delivery

Artifact test plans by level, linked to requirements, implementation work items, solution artifacts…

Use SAFe templates to create test artifacts, associate with Programs and Teams…

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Learn More

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References/Case Studies:

– [Blog] Words of wisdom from a few of the scaled agile "experts" at Interconnect 2017

– NICEActimize DevOps.com interview: IBM InterConnect 2017 w/Igal Levi, NICE Actimize

– Pôle emploi: Scheduling and prioritizing development backlog with the Scaled Agile Framework

– Softplan: Gaining robust visibility with IBM Rational software and the Scaled Agile Framework methodology

– US Department of State: Customer Reference

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