What does it take to outpace the competition in the Age of Software? Enterprises leading the pack operate with business agility across the organization, acting on fast feedback to evolve, innovate and capitalize on new business opportunities. Yet to truly align technical agility with business agility, leaders, teams and business stakeholders need a new way to reliably measure their current state and identify where they can improve.
The latest iteration of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe) incorporates Flow Metrics—introduced in Dr. Mik Kersten’s Flow Framework®—to measure how efficient software delivery organizations are at delivering value to the customer and driving meaningful discussions with technology and business counterparts to accelerate decision making.
During this on-demand webinar, Scaled Agile Principal Consultant and Framework team member, Andrew Sales, and Tasktop Sr. Value Stream Architect, Lee Reid, discuss how the three measurement domains of SAFe—Outcomes, Flow, and Competency—provide a comprehensive, yet simple, model for measuring business agility at every level of the enterprise and view data from an actual product value stream demonstrating how Flow Metrics can enable productive conversations with the business about prioritizing work, while still maintaining the taxonomy of SAFe for teams to implement and improve.
Key Takeaways:
- How to define specific metrics within each domain for measuring teams, ARTs, Solution Trains and entire SAFe Portfolios
- How to measure the rate of business value delivery for software products with clearly defined Flow Metrics tied to business outcomes
- How to map the four flow items (Feature, Defect, Debt and Risk) to the work items generated by your SAFe implementation
- How to correlate this data with desired business outcomes, so everyone can see what’s working, what’s not, and what needs to be improved
- How to apply common success patterns for effective measurement, and use the insights to identify opportunities for improvement
What does it take to outpace the competition in the Age of Software? Enterprises leading the pack operate with business agility across the organization, acting on fast feedback to evolve, innovate and capitalize on new business opportunities. Yet to truly align technical agility with business agility, leaders, teams and business stakeholders need a new way to reliably measure their current state and identify where they can improve.
The latest iteration of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe) incorporates Flow Metrics—introduced in Dr. Mik Kersten’s Flow Framework®—to measure how efficient software delivery organizations are at delivering value to the customer and driving meaningful discussions with technology and business counterparts to accelerate decision making.
During this on-demand webinar, Scaled Agile Principal Consultant and Framework team member, Andrew Sales, and Tasktop Sr. Value Stream Architect, Lee Reid, discuss how the three measurement domains of SAFe—Outcomes, Flow, and Competency—provide a comprehensive, yet simple, model for measuring business agility at every level of the enterprise and view data from an actual product value stream demonstrating how Flow Metrics can enable productive conversations with the business about prioritizing work, while still maintaining the taxonomy of SAFe for teams to implement and improve.
Key Takeaways:
- How to define specific metrics within each domain for measuring teams, ARTs, Solution Trains and entire SAFe Portfolios
- How to measure the rate of business value delivery for software products with clearly defined Flow Metrics tied to business outcomes
- How to map the four flow items (Feature, Defect, Debt and Risk) to the work items generated by your SAFe implementation
- How to correlate this data with desired business outcomes, so everyone can see what’s working, what’s not, and what needs to be improved
- How to apply common success patterns for effective measurement, and use the insights to identify opportunities for improvement
Andrew SalesSAFe FellowScaled Agile
Lee ReidSr. Value Stream ArchitectTasktop