Chapter 2: Building on a Lean-Agile Foundation

1. Scrum
2. Scaled Agile Framework
3. To link corporate strategy with portfolio, product, and architectural sustainment needs, and to determine funding priorities over multiple planning horizons.
4. Any two out of these four: Product Backlogs, escaped defects, failed deployments, Release Net Promoter Score (NPS)
5. a. Visualize the workflow

   b. Limit Work in Progress (WIP)

   c. Manage flow

   d. Make policies explicit

   e. Solicit feedback

   f. Generate ideas for continuous improvements

6. The ideal Lean production goal is to match each activity, and the overall production rates, to the rate of received customer orders or requirements.

   We can calculate this as the time taken to produce work items divided by the number of items requested over the interval, otherwise known as Takt time.

7. A linear-sequential process with no feedback loops.
8. We can accelerate value delivery by implementing streamlining, integration, and automation strategies...