Episode 80: Context Matters in SAFe with Em Campbell-Pretty

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“