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How can an enterprise scaled agile methodology help you with your enterprise transformation? ** This discussion is part of the new Featured Discussion program, which offers open-ended discussion group conversations that enable participants to engage around issues that are slightly broader than ...

Two key things in my experience: reporting and education. The education is critical to ensure that all "players" understand what it is they are converting to. I've seen organizations assume that a tool supporting Agile is all it takes to BE agile, and that certainly is not the case. Reporting is critical ...

Product line growth can create a natural degradation into chaos. The common engineering solution follows a copy-and-tailor for requirements, designs, code, and tests rather than a strategic, planned reuse. A global, strategic configuration management approach across lifecycle domains (e.g. requirements) ...

Now that your organization has streamlined your Agile Release Train, how do you keep it on track all the way through to customer value? We’ll show you how delivery automation and coordination with DevOps is a key element of scaled agile success. Speakers: Cindy VanEpps has a passion for whole-lifecycle ...

Join us at InterConnect 2017 for a workshop on SAFe® ( Get a SAFe® Agile Release Train Up & Running In An Hour ) where you will learn how to get started with scaled agile – and have fun doing it! We’ll drop all the normal baggage, including presentations and techno-babble, and instead, take a white-boarding ...

Hi, In addition to Robert's response, I would add that agile SCM needs to consider eliminating waste in the SCM process specifically related to multiple teams coordinating changes and integrating those changes at a "team of teams" level. This involves reducing the number of branches in the application ...

Hi, There is not a standard evaluation "service" yet but we are working on that. We do have agile assessments for the team and program (team-of-teams) levels posted on our SAFe Reporting site that can help with self-assessment but this is admittedly an assessment of how well you're doing with agile, ...

Estimating the effort of User Stories through practices such as planning poker is a fairly well-understood activity and works well enough for agile teams to understand work effort and required capacity. How well does this activity scale across a Program of several Teams, or a Portfolio of many Programs? ...

How SAFe is the IBM Collaborative Lifecycle Management solution? Starting in CLM 6.0.1, it is quite SAFe with expanded capabilities for both systems engineering and IT organizations who need more robust governance at the Value Stream level to capture artifacts and traceability across them related to ...