At Agile Australia 2014 in Melbourne; Craig, Renee and Tony catch up with Em Campbell-Pretty to talk about the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) as well as Impact Mapping and a variety of other topics:

• Em’s Agile journey and how she came to Agile from the business side and discovered SAFe before it was SAFe
• Australia’s first Agile release train and the SAFe Telstra Enterprise Data Warehouse Case Study
• Pretty Agile blog – Adventures in Scaling Agile
• Scaling Software Agility and Agile Software Requirements books by Dean Leffingwell
• did SAFe without PSI Planning – doing textbook SAFe you will most likely fail – apply it to your context
• SAFe is designed for big enterprise and is just where you start
• Leading SAFe training – focus on lean principles and leadership
• Epic – Feature – Story – why?
• if your wall isn’t changing then your process is probably not changing (inspect and adapt)
• key metrics – cycle time, employee net promotor score and customer net promotor score – recommended book “The Ultimate Question 2.0“
• Context Matters – consulting, training and coaching with Mark Richards
• people take comfort from the fact there is a process (and a certification)
• SAFe 3.0 – cleaned up some of issues and imagery, lean leadership, etc…
• the book is still a reasonable resource but the website is the most up-to-date source
• Impact Mapping – good way to get alignment around business objectives on a project – “Impact Mapping: Making an Impact over Shipping Software” presentation at Agile Australia 2014
• Impact Mapping is good for mapping opportunities and assumption testing – why, who is impacted, how do we want behaviours to change and what can we do to support the impacts, Story Mapping is further down the line
• Impact Mapping book and website are both good resources, Em’s blog post “How I Fell in Love with Impact Mapping“

TheAgileRevolution-80 (35 minutes)