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This one was an interesting session! Scaled AGILE always fascinates me but I really never got to understand SAFe in its truest sense primarily as I work for a comparatively small company and maybe I never put it genuine efforts to do so!
The presenter made a point that Scaled AGILE is much more than just SAFe.
He referred to few articles/posts worth reading:
1) http://kenschwaber.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/unsafe-at-any-speed/
2) http://www.djaa.com/kanban-anti-safe-almost-decade-already
3) http://neilkillick.com/2012/03/21/the-horror-of-the-scaled-agile-framework/
4) http://theitriskmanager.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/two-legs-good/
5) http://cognitive-edge.com/blog/entry/6238/safe-the-infantilism-of-management/
6) http://www.scrumsense.com/blog/scaling-scrum-organisation
If you read all of these, you will get a fair enough picture of what SAFe is not !
He talked about various other AGILE scaling approaches ; basic idea and people behind each of them, roles , books, diagrams and other resources.
— SAFe : Scaled Agile Framework
http://scaledagileframework.com/
— DAD: Disciplined Agile Delivery
http://disciplinedagileconsortium.org/
— EBMgt : Evidence Based Management
http://ebmgt.org/
— ETF: Enterprise Transition Framework
http://www.agile42.com/en/agile-transition/etf/
— LeSS : Large Scale SCRUM
http://www.craiglarman.com/wiki/index.php?title=Large-Scale_Scrum
— SA@S: Scaling Agile at Spotify (A interesting one!!)
Click to access SpotifyScaling.pdf
— ScALeD: Scaled Lean Development
— PDFbyR : Product Development Flow by Reinertsen
Lastly these were compared in terms of Blueprint v/s Principles, Commercialization, Scaling,
To be honest, the presentation slides were one of the best I have seen!! Lot of information in such a compact format and easily readable. I got a lot to read from this session 🙂
Slides can be found at:
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