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SAFe® Coaches Handbook

You're reading from SAFe® Coaches Handbook Proven tips and techniques for launching and running SAFe® Teams, ARTs, and Portfolios in an Agile Enterprise

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781839210457

Length 332 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Agile

Authors (2):

Lindy Quick

Darren Wilmshurst

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Thriving in the Digital Age

2. Part 1: Agile Teams FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Building the Team

4. Chapter 3: Agile Team Iteration and PI Execution

5. Chapter 4: Team Backlog Management

6. Chapter 5: Team Iteration Events

7. Part 2: Agile Release Trains

8. Chapter 6: Building the Agile Release Train

9. Chapter 7: Release Trains Day-to-Day

10. Chapter 8: ART Backlog Management

11. Chapter 9: Events for the Train

12. Chapter 10: PI Events

13. Part 3: Portfolio

14. Chapter 11: Enterprise Strategy

15. Chapter 12: Building Your Portfolio

16. Chapter 13: Establishing Lean Budgets

17. Chapter 14: Portfolio Backlog Management

18. Chapter 15: Measuring Progress

19. Chapter 16: Leadership Alignment

20. Chapter 17: Embracing Agility and Nurturing Transformation

21. Glossary

22. Index

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23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix A

1. Appendix B

The Portfolio Kanban

The Portfolio Kanban system is a method for visualizing and managing the flow of Portfolio Epics, from ideation through analysis, implementation, and completion, as illustrated in Figure 14.2:

Figure 14.2 – Portfolio Kanban (© Scaled Agile Inc)

Figure 14.2 – Portfolio Kanban (© Scaled Agile Inc)

There are several Kanban systems used throughout SAFe®, including the Team, ART, Solution, and Portfolio Kanban systems. These systems help match demand to capacity based on Work in Progress (WIP) limits; visualizing bottlenecks in each process state helps identify opportunities for relentless improvement.

It’s important to note that the Portfolio Kanban in Figure 14.2 is a prototypical Kanban; the design of the Kanban should evolve to reflect improvements to the default Kanban states based on relevant portfolio experience. These improvements may include adjusting WIP limits, splitting or combining Kanban states, or adding classes of service to optimize the flow and...

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Authors (2)

Wilmshurst

Wilmshurst

Darren Wilmshurst is the UK director of Cprime, a leading global Agile, product, and technology solutions provider, delivering transformations. Having spent almost 30 years in the corporate world, first in retail banking and then later in the IT industry, he moved to consulting to help organizations in both the private and public sectors to be more effective and efficient. He is a SAFe® Practice Consultant Trainer (SPCT) and is also recognized as a SAFe® Fellow. He co-authored the BCS book Agile Foundations – Principles Practices and Frameworks, was a contributor and reviewer of The ART of Avoiding a Train Wreck, and was a reviewer of Valuing Agile: The Financial Management of Agile Projects.

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Lindy Quick

Lindy Quick

Lindy Quick is the owner and principal at LNQ Consultants. She has more than 15 years of federal government IT experience and 10 years of SAFe® and Lean-Agile consulting and Coaching experience. Lindy has Coached and trained numerous individuals, teams, ARTs, and solutions, delivering both software and highly complex cyber-physical solutions. Lindy is a SAFe® Practice Consultant Trainer (SPCT) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and German and a Master of Business Administration (MBA).

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