The principles of flow are an essential part of the Lean-Agile mindset. These include understanding the full Development Value Stream , visualizing and limiting Work in Process WIP , and reducing batch sizes and managing queue lengths.
Additionally, Lean focus on identifying and continuously removing delays and waste non-value-added activities. One critical move that organizations must address to achieve flow is the shift from a start-stop-start project management process to an agile product management approach aligned to long-lived development value streams. Lean-Agile principles provide a better understanding of the system development process by incorporating new thinking, tools, and techniques.
Leaders and teams can use them to move from a phase-gated approach to a DevOps approach with a Continuous Delivery Pipeline that extends flow to the entire value delivery process. Flow builds a solid foundation for value delivery. But without innovation, both product and process will steadily decline. The fourth pillar, relentless improvement, encourages learning and growth through continuous reflection and process enhancements. A constant sense of competitive danger drives the company to pursue improvement opportunities aggressively.
Leaders and teams do the following:. Additional guidance on the importance of innovation and relentless improvement in achieving business agility can be found in the Continuous Learning Culture competency article. The foundation of Lean is leadership, a key enabler for team success. Leaders are ultimately responsible for the successful adoption of the Lean-Agile approach.
According to management consultant and efficiency expert W. Therefore, leaders must be trained in these new and innovative ways of thinking and exhibit the principles and behaviors of Lean-Agile leadership.
From a leadership perspective, Lean is different than Agile. Agile was developed as a team-based process for a small group of cross-functional, dedicated individuals who were empowered, skilled, and needed to build working functionality in a short time box.
Management was not part of this definition. By contrast, in Lean, managers are leaders who embrace the values of Lean, are competent in the basic practices, and teach these practices to others. They proactively eliminate impediments and take an active role in driving organizational change and facilitating relentless improvement. Additional guidance on leadership as the foundation of Lean-Agile transformation using SAFe can be found in the Lean-Agile Leadership competency article.
In the s, responding to the many challenges of waterfall processes, some lighter-weight and more iterative development methods emerged. In , many leaders of these frameworks came together in Snowbird, Utah. While there were differences of opinion on the specific merits of one method over another, the attendees agreed that their shared values and beliefs dwarfed the differences.
The result was a Manifesto for Agile Software Development—a turning point that clarified the new approach and started to bring the benefits of these innovative methods to the whole development industry. More recently, business teams outside of technology have also embraced Agile principles for planning and executing their work.
We interpret this as describing an ongoing journey of discovery to increasingly embrace Agile behaviors, a journey with no end. SAFe is not a fixed, frozen-in-time framework. As soon as we uncover better ways of working, we adapt the framework, as evidenced by more than six major releases as of the current version SAFe 5. Some people may misinterpret the value statements as a binary decision between two choices e.
Both items have value; however, the item on the left has more value i. The Agile Manifesto is not rigid or dogmatic. Instead, it embraces the need to balance the values based on the context.
However, a process is only a means to an end. So, favor individuals and interactions, then modify processes accordingly. In a distributed environment, tools are critically important to assist with communication and collaboration e. This is especially true at scale. However, tools should supplement, rather than replace, face-to-face communication. Documentation is important and has value. But creating documents for the sake of complying with potentially outdated corporate governance models has no value.
As part of a change program, governance, often captured by documentation standards, needs to be updated to reflect the Lean-Agile way of working. Therefore, favor working software. Customers are the ultimate deciders of value, so their close collaboration is essential in the development process.
To convey the rights, responsibilities, and economic concerns of each party, contracts are often necessary—but recognize that contracts can over-regulate what to do and how to do it.
Instead, contracts should be win—win propositions. Having a sense of direction is critical to planning and engagement. That purpose is filled by the Roadmap. Figure 3 provides an example. The roadmap is indeed helpful. But for action and execution, the immediate steps must be clear. Product and Solution Management have the responsibility to provide the direction for these next steps. In the SAFe context, this translates to a series of increment steps forward, one PI at a time and one feature at a time, as Figure 4 illustrates.
Then, during PI planning, they present the top 10 to the team. Further, the Program Kanban is used to explore the scope of features, their benefit hypotheses, and acceptance criteria, so when features reach this boundary, they are fairly well-formed and vetted.
However, everyone understands that the top 10 is an input, not an output to the planning process, and what can be achieved in the next PI is subject to capacity limitations, dependencies, the knowledge that emerges during planning, and more.
Only the teams can plan and commit to a course of action, one that is summarized in the PI Objectives. But these features are ready for implementation.
And feature by feature, the program marches forward toward the accomplishment of the vision. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
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