A common practice among teams in IT companies adopting the latest trends, Agile can be scaled to enterprise level once applied properly. In this Innovation Session, Maduri Senadheera from the Project Management team talks about the Agile mindset, the need for scaling and the benefits of a Scaled Agile Framework for better aligning business processes.

1. Scaling Agile

2. AGENDA
• Lean - Agile Mindset
• Core Values
• Scaled Agile Framework 4.0
• How could we benefit

3. The Agile paradigm shift..

4. INCREMENTAL VALUE DELIVERY
4 444 :
Documents Documents Unverified System System

5. AGILE VALUE DELIVERY
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Waterfall Development Agile Development

6. THE FUTURE
• Number of users are growing
• Popularity of Scrum
• Practitioners are expanding globally
• Growing organizations

7. COMMON FAILURES
• Lack of experience
• Company philosophy and culture doesn’t fit with Agile
• Lack of Management support

8. Need for Scaling

9. THE SCALED AGILE FRAMEWORK
A framework designed by Dean Leffingwell and team at Scaled
Agile, Inc. out of Boulder, Colorado
“A proven publicly available framework for applying Lean|Agile
practices at enterprise scale – Template for scaling agile principles
and tools for larger organizations”

10. Scrum is to Agile Team
as
SAFe is to Agile Enterprise

11. SAFe - BIG PICTURE

12. SAFe HOUSE OF LEAN

13. SAFe CORE VALUES

14. SAFe 4.0
4 Levels:
• Portfolio
• Value Stream
• Program
• Team

15. SAFe - BIG PICTURE

16. TEAM
Roles:
• Product Owner
• Scrum Master
• Agile team - Empowered, Self-organizing, Self-managing, Cross-functional
Fully tested software increment every two weeks
Operates under program vision
Value delivery: User stories from the Team Backlog

17. PROGRAM
Roles:
• Product Manager
• Release Train Engineer – Program Manager
• System Architects
Multiple teams working towards to deliver a large system.
• Program Increments (PIs) : 8-12 weeks
• Agile Release Train (ART)
• Business owners
• Shared Services

18. VALUE STREAM
Roles:
• Value Stream Engineer
• Solutions Manager
• Solutions Architect
Program alignment in terms of;
• Requirements
• Architectural decisions
Multiple ARTs

19. PORTFOLIO
Roles:
• Program Portfolio Management
• Epic owners
• Enterprise Architect
Whole 3 layers explained earlier are driven by priorities;
• Strategic Themes
• Allocating funds to values streams

20. INFORMATION FLOW
Portfolio Backlog
Program Backlog
Value Stream Backlog
Team Backlog
Epics
Capabilities
Features
Stories

21. RELEASE/ PI PLANNING
Vision
Team Objectives
Top 10
Features
Release
Planning
PI Objectives
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Team B
Objectives
Team A
Objectives
Team C
Objectives

22. WEIGHTED SHORTED JOB FIRST (WSJF)
WSJF = Cost of Delay/ Duration

23. RELEASE/ PI PLANNING
Vision
Team Objectives
Top 10
Features
Release
Planning
PI Objectives
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Team B
Objectives
Team A
Objectives
Team C
Objectives

24. RELEASE/ PI PLANNING

25. RELEASE/ PI PLANNING

26. EXECUTION
Program Increment
Team Sprints
Sprint
DemosSystem
Demos
Scrum of Scrums
Scrum
Scrum
Scrum
Agile Release Train (ART)
Agile Release Train (ART)
Value
Stream
Customer

27. SAFe - BIG PICTURE

28. BENEFITS
• Publicly available and free to use
• It is lightweight
• It is practical – not a process, a guideline for process
improvement
• Offers a complete picture of software development

29. BENEFITS
• Alignment: Alignment of enterprise level strategy to team level
execution
Portfolio-> Program-> Project
• Increases Transparency and Trust
• Early identification and to minimize obstacles, delays, and
failures when the teams are dependent
• Faster value delivery
• High Quality Software

30. REFERENCE
http://www.scaledagileframework.com

31. Questions?

32. Thank You!