Six steps to improving SAFe with concepts from Disciplined Agile FLEX
From the Manifesting Business Agility Blog
by Al Shalloway
This blog concerns itself with organizations moving to business agility—the quick realization of value predictably and sustainably, and with high quality. It includes all aspects of this—from the business stakeholders through ops and support. Topics will be far-reaching but will mostly discuss FLEX, Flow, Lean-Thinking, Lean-Management, Theory of Constraints, Systems Thinking, Test-First and Agile.
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#1. Understand the value stream is the workflow, not the people in the workflow, from concept to consumption of value.
#2. Attend to the entire value stream. If you don't get cooperation of portfolio or product management, make the cost of this visible.
#3. Use Minimum Business Increments (MBIs) when enhancing existing products. Use MVPs for what they were intended for - discovering if you have new products. Don't confuse the two.
#4. Create semi-autonomous teams that have all the skills required to create the MBIs.
#5. Do your PI planning by focusing on removing delays in workflow in the completion of MBIs. This lowers waste while lowering cost of delay.
#6 Use dependencies identified in PI planning to Improve your organization's value creation structure
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Posted on: October 29, 2020 09:16 AM |
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Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Al, thanks for sharing this.
I am a bit on the fence with regards to no. 5 ... The intent should be not to finish them quickly but to finish them properly to deliver value, isn’t it ?
Al Shalloway
Founder and CEO| Success Engineering
Edmonds, Wa, United States
thanks. i reworded it slightly. I didn't mean to imply hurting quality. By removing delays in workflow you will improve quality.
Here's the new bullet
#5. Do your PI planning by focusing on removing delays in workflow in the completion of MBIs. This lowers waste while lowering cost of delay.
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Al, thanks. That reads much better from my side, however, removing waste reduces Cost of Quality but not Cost of Delay. I would personally reword it as follows:
Do your Pl Planning by focusing on delivering the right MBI first and reducing waste. This will reduce and maybe eliminate both Cost of Quality and Delay.
Al Shalloway
Founder and CEO| Success Engineering
Edmonds, Wa, United States
it definitely results in quicker delivery - reducing cost of delay.
it may improve quality. cost of quality i'm guessing is cost of bad quality
Rami Kaibni
Community Champion
Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates
New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
Noted, thanks Al. Would love to discuss further sometime.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Mohammed Riehan Ali
Delivery Management - Projects, Solutions & Technology| Deutsche Telekom - T-Systems
Bangalore, Ka, India
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