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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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839210457
Length 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lindy Quick Lindy Quick
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Darren Wilmshurst Darren Wilmshurst
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

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 23. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A
1. Appendix B

Portfolio Backlog Management

In previous chapters, we have looked at the importance of an Enterprise Strategy, how we connect the portfolio to the Enterprise Strategy via Strategic Themes, the various tools and techniques to help define the portfolio, and then the critical stage of identifying our Value Streams. Having identified our Value Streams, we then explored how we fund Value Streams rather than Projects moving away from traditional Project cost accounting.

So, now we need to consider how we visualize the progress of our work, in this case, the Epics, using our Value Streams.

The Portfolio Kanban is particularly important in that it helps align the strategy and its execution by identifying, communicating, and governing the selection of the largest and most strategic initiatives (Epics) for a SAFe® Portfolio. The Portfolio Kanban is operated under the auspices of Lean Portfolio Management and uses the Strategic Portfolio Review and Portfolio Sync events to manage and...

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