SAFe 5 handbook outline

1. BOOK TITLE:
Subtitle:
AUTHOR:
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Full name
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What is the name of the organisation you work for?
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PART ONE: BACKGROUND
RESEARCH
TARGET AUDIENCE
Describe your target reader: what you assume about their knowledge of the topic, related
topics, and technical topics generally; why they want to learn the technology; what will they
want to do with it?
Answer the following:
Who is your audience?
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Project Managers, Delivery managers, Enterprise Leaders, Teams working in Agile
2
Basic understanding of Agile
What is important to them?
1
Shown the end to end implementation.
2
[INSERT HERE: List 3 of the challenges your audience faces

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COMPETITIVE BOOK TITLES
What is unique about your book? You will need to look on Amazon at books that have been well-
received – what are the top three market leading books that your book will compete with?
Examine the description, table of contents and book reviews.
List the books here:
1 [INSERT HERE: Competitor 1]
2 [INSERT HERE: Competitor 2]
3 [INSERT HERE: Competitor 3]
Please ensure that you have looked at the description, table of contents and book reviews for
each of these books.
PART TWO: BOOK OVERVIEW
OVERVIEW
The long description is the device we use to describe the book on Amazon. Writing it is fairly systematic. Please
answer the following questions using only one sentence.
TEMPLATE EXAMPLE:
Hands-On Blockchain Development with Hyperledger
Your turn...
Explain / Introduce the
tech
Hyperledger Fabric and Hyperledger Composer enable
organizations to create private, permissioned
blockchain networks.
Why would a
developer want to
learn it?

4. Why should they buy
this book?
Developers working with Blockchain will be able to
put their knowledge to work with this practical guide.
The book provides a hands-on approach to
implementation and associated methodologies that
will have you up-and-running, and productive in no
time.
Developers working with [X] will be able to put
their knowledge to work with this practical guide
to [Y]. The book provides a hands-on approach to
implementation and associated methodologies
that will have you up-and-running, and productive
in no time.
Product approach Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential
concepts, practical examples and self-assessment
questions, you will begin by exploring the blockchain
evolution, including an overview of relevant
blockchain technologies
Complete with step-by-step explanations of
essential concepts, practical examples and self-
assessment questions, you will begin [INSERT TEXT
HERE ]
Product Breakdown: In
2 sentences, describe
the “journey” the book
takes the reader on.
Look at your section
headings for help
You'll learn how to configure Hyperledger Fabric on a
cloud platform, understand the architectural
components of Hyperledger Fabric, and how they are
configured to build private blockchain networks, and
the applications that connect to them. You'll then
build a network and application from scratch, and
learn how to implement smart contracts in chaincode.
By the end of this book
you will...
By the end of this book, you will be able to build and
deploy your own decentralized applications using
Hyperledger, addressing the key pain points
encountered in the blockchain life cycle.
Anything else you
would like to add?
LEARNING OUTCOME - WHAT WILL THE READER LEARN AND
DO?
Consider the competing books; in particular the description, table of contents and book
reviews. Decide what the key learning objectives will be for your book. List them below:
1 Readers will learn that they are not alone in this journey. People around the world
are facing similar problems though they are working in different domains and
environment.

5. 2 This book will take leaders through an experience of creating value for the
organization by minimizing the bureaucratic culture and moving towards the
generative mindset
3 Every role in SAFe big picture will have something to learn. LPM will learn how to
move from traditional portfolio to lean LPM. Architects will learn to balance the
intentional and emergent architecture. RTE and Scrum Masters will learn to
resolve conflicts and product owners will learn how to deliver highest value by
ordering the backlog etc..
4 This book will highlight many anti-patterns at each level of the organization and
some possible solutions to identify and resolve them.
5 We will end with the message that its a journey and not a milestone to achieve,
because in true sense of business agility the milestones keep moving and
changing.

6. PART THREE: BOOK STRUCTURE
Using your overview, and learning outcomes now decide on the structure of your book? What are
your start and end points?
GENERAL STRUCTURE
Divide the book into approximately 3 parts. The learning outcomes you listed previously will
help to inform these. These “parts” are a group of chapters that work toward the same goal.
Each part will consist of 3-5 chapters. For example: A book on Building Machine Learning
Systems with Python might be split into 5 parts as follows: “The Basics”; “Book
Learning”; “Numbers, Forecasts and Recommendations”; “Sound and Vision” and finally,
“Practical Matters”.
WRITE YOUR PART HEADINGS BELOW:
1 Not you not me - its us - Alignment with the vision - On board the crew
2 Sailing the ship in the right direction - Identifying the problem to be solved
3 Winning is important - but is loosing that bad - Creating the right solution
CHAPTER OUTLINE
Each chapter should have a clear focus. Each chapter title should clearly state what aspect
of the overall topic the chapter deals with.. Continuing the example of Building Machine
Learning Systems with Python your section on “Book Learning” might be broken down into 4
chapters as follows: “Clustering – sorting text into groups”, “Topic Modeling – creating
non-exclusive groups”; “Logistic Regression – evaluating text quality”; “Bayes
Classification – sentiment analysis”. PLEASE NOTE: Chapter titles appear on Amazon

7. PART ONE: The part one of the book introduce “Authentic Solutions” and “The
Apprentice” the two organizations, one who is very successful and the other who is at
a verge of bankruptcy. Both are in competition. They have different challenges to
address and have needs. While “Authentic Solutions” is number one in the game “The
Apprentice” is looking for prospect buyers who can take them out of crisis.
This section introduces leadership teams in both the companies and how both of them
decide to implement SAFe and take different approach for different reasons.
By end of this section the leadership at “The Apprentice” agrees to launch its first train
and follow the SAFe implementation road-map while at “Authentic Solutions”
leadership have given full autonomy to the teams to work as they like while giving
them a purpose to achieve.
1 Its a game - Know the teams, players and competition
2 Do or die! Finding the need to change (Staying no 1)
3 Meeting the self ( Getting to know what to do)
4 Go SAFe
5 First things First ( Identifying the value stream and ART to launch the first train )
PART TWO: Part two of this book have five chapters. This cover the program level
implementation of SAFe. With the introduction of customer centricity and design
thinking “ The Apprentice” are focusing on market research and identifying the
problem they want to solve. They find our few opportunities and the target segment
and the sweat spot they can target.
The “Authentic Solution” are working on innovation and trying to create a whole
product thinking approach and had a heavy loss when most of the innovative
hypothesis are not successful and they have to pivot each time. They tried to preserve
something that was not successful because they have already invested heavily on
that idea but later decides to quit and work on other ideas.
By end of this section we identify lot of anti-patterns on program levels in SAFe
implementation and both the companies have launched their first train and have done
PI Planning.
1 Differentiating the What from How?

8. 2 Change is the only constant
3 We need each other.
4 A well defined problem is half solved
5 Our first PI Planning
PART THREE: The part three of the book will talk about how the backlog is executed by
the teams. Here we introduce the concept of agile teams and how both Kanban teams
and scrum teams are working together to achieve the backlog that is created.
Both the organization work in agile teams. While one is focused on Scrum the other is
trying to work Scrumban. Here we covers various roles at the team level how they
were selected.
The teams go through the challenges while forming and storming and how team
agreements and other patterns helps them to become high performing teams.
The teams gets into conflicts and how Scrum Master and RTE help them to get out of
the critical situations. How some hard decisions are taken and instead of command
and control the teams becomes self organizing teams.
Finally the climax need to be worked out so that our readers wait for the next book to
come.
1 Nothing beats and agile team other than team of agile teams
2 The fight
3 World war
4 Celebration Time
5 Its a journey to be continued …

9. PLEASE ADD OTHER PARTS/CHAPTERS ONLY IF YOUR TOPIC REQUIRES IT

10. PART FOUR: DETAILED OUTLINE
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