SAFeTM on JIRAAddressing your Scaling Agile needs on JIRA

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Today’s Presenter

Zubin’s education includes a B.S from USC, and a joint Masters' from Columbia & UC Berkeley. He started his professional career as an Analyst at Deloitte and quickly worked his way up to a Senior Consultant before becoming the youngest Director at a large Communication company. After a successful tenure, he moved to the Bay Area to become a co-founder and CEO of cPrime..

Throughout Zubin's career he has been involved in large scale multi-million dollar Projects on engagements as large as 400 people.  Engaging with clients such as, AT&T, Ericsson, Oracle, SAP, Disney, Macys, Visa, Sony, and Wells Fargo. cPrime has been ranked Top 50 Private fastest growing companies in the Bay Area 5 years in a row and is the largest Agile Training company in the United States. cPrime is a full service consultancy focused on Agile Transformation and Project Delivery and has built a successful practice delivering solutions for the biggest names in Silicon Valley and across the country.

Zubin Irani, CEO, MBA, CSM, PMP, ITIL

What we will cover today

• An introduction to some of the SAFe® Portfolio concepts

• An example of how you can setup JIRA Agile to support the SAFe® levels (Portfolio, Program, Team)

• Note: There are multiple ways this can be done, we are showing one example, but we have a number of other solutions which we’ve implemented for Clients

• We will spend most of our time in Portfolio & Program levels

• Given the high-attendance, we have made some basic assumptions that folks are familiar with the basics of SAFe® and JIRA, but we will briefly review those

A Few Logistics• Large-group, limited interaction and primarily one-way

• Other online training, tailored demo’s, and public or private training options are more personalized and interactive if you want those

• Questions can be addressed to me (Presenter) or our Moderator

• Will try to address themes and patterns of questions where appropriate

• Other feedback collected will be used for future blog posts, updates or input for future iterations of this presentation

• Given the high-attendance, we may not get to your question during the webinar

• We will do our best to answer those questions after the webinar

SAFeTM – The Big Picture

Two Types of SAFe EpicsBusiness Epics:

• Large chunks of scope• Customer-facing initiatives• Realize business benefits• Maintained in the Portfolio Backlog

Architectural Epics:• Large chunks of scope• Technology initiatives• Realize technological change

– performance and scalability– infrastructure obsolescence– integration

• Maintained in the Portfolio Backlog

Business Epic WorkflowDecision Points:

• Validation of epic with a lightweight business case• Research & Analysis• Decision to go/no-go

Process:• Kanban

Business Epic WorkflowFunnel:

• Identification of Business Epics takes place• Ideas are captured / discussed• No cost or value is assigned• Epics stated in any format

– “Single sign on across all products”

Backlog:• Queue of work that warrants further exploration• WIP Limits pace resources• Epic Owner is assigned to carry the scope through the

system– rough sizing of effort – estimated potential / value

Business Epic WorkflowAnalysis:

• Research & Analysis prior to implementation• Effort & Economic Impact are further defined

– WSJF Prioritization– Decision Matrix

• Lightweight Business Case Developed– Decision to go/no-go

Implementation:• Business Epic has been approved • Awaits space to schedule to a release train• Epic can be further broken down to decentralize

– Split epics

Let’s Visualize the (BE) Workflow

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Epic Implementation GrantedAllocate Epic to Release Train:

• Epic passes analysis queue• Ownership transferred to Program Level

– Decentralized planning– Epic decomposed into features

• Program backlog queue of features– WIP limits dictate capacity of the teams

Agile Release TrainsProgram Team:

• 50-125 people– Teams of Agile teams

• Dedicated to consistent development flow– Value / Investment theme focus– Release in sync on a fixed cadence

PSI’s: • ~8-12 week increments• Ongoing Frequency & Sequencing

– Define– Build– Test– Deliver

• Scope is variable

Investment ThemesA more holistic view:

• Visualize your strategic intent– Portfolio backlog of initiatives

• Investment themes are a capacity allocation – Budgeting– Resource Planning

Add-onsSome of the addons you saw today:

• Structure• LinksHierarchy• Gantt Chart• Folio

Others we like:• Roadmaps for JIRA• Burnup/Program Gadget

Contact us for more information about addons or licenses purchases or trials atlassian@cprime.com