The document outlines six common challenges faced by Release Train Engineers (RTEs) and provides solutions for each. Key issues include lack of visibility into work, strategic alignment, understanding team velocity, managing dependencies and risks, maintaining roadmaps, and limited reporting capabilities. Suggested solutions involve utilizing program boards, visualizing strategic goals, establishing metrics, and enhancing reporting tools.

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2. 6 Common Challenges RTEs Face and
How to Solve Them
Best Practices, Tooling, & More

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5. 01 Common Challenges
02 SAFe® & Agile Best Practices
03 Tooling to Support You
04 Keep the Conversation Going/Q&A
Agenda

6. Challenge #1: Lack of visibility into full book
of work
What are my teams working on?

7. • Why?
• Get a single pane of glass view for all
committed work against a Planning
Increment by all teams that are part of
your ART
• Document major milestones and key
deliverables that will affect everyone
• Get a visual representation of where
teams may be under or over capacity
• See where teams may be heavily
dependent on each other
Solution: Create a Program Board

9. Challenge #2: No view into how we’re
contributing to Strategic Advancement
Why are we doing what we’re doing?

10. • Why?
• Create a mechanism by which you
can cascade the relationship from
large strategic goals through themes,
epics, features and stories.
• Help teams understand the why
behind what they’re doing to increase
ownership and engagement.
Solution: Visualize your relationship to strategic goals

11. Jira Align Strategic Hierarchy & Why Button
Jira Align Why Button
Jira Align Strategic Hierarchy (Work Tree)

12. Challenge#3: No understanding of ART Velocity
or Delivery Capability
Can we get the work done?

13. • Why?
• Create scaled predictability metrics
that can be tracked PI over PI for your
ART
• Gain a deeper understanding of what
can be reasonably achieved by your ART
within a given PI
• Load teams/ART correctly and set up
teams for success
• Have tangible capacity metrics in hand
for WIP/Prioritization conversations
Solution: Establish ART Velocity and ART Load

15. Challenge#4: No visibility into
Dependencies/Risks
Are we making sure we’re set up for success?

16. • Why?
• Ensure that all risks for a program are visualized
and that a mitigation strategy is in place, or an
owner is assigned to help resolve the issue
• One centralized repository of Risks ensures that
risks are captured, actioned and most
importantly don’t get lost coming out of planning
• Visualizing dependencies helps quickly identify
bottlenecks and teams that may need more
attention
• Seeing dependencies may help us make
prioritization and tradeoff decisions to better
ensure the success of our ART
Solution: Visualize Dependencies and Manage Risks

17. Solution: Visualize Dependencies and Manage Risks
Risk ROAM Report
Dependency Wheel

18. Challenge#5: Constant need to maintain and
update roadmaps
What’s next ?

19. • Why?
• Ensure that everyone has one single
source of truth to understand when a
work item is requested to be
completed
• Mark any major milestones on major
initiatives
• Have your roadmap dynamically
generate based on these dates
Solution: Track dates on work items

20. Dynamic Roadmaps with Filtering

21. Challenge#6: Limited available reports on
Progress/Lack of customization
Slice across the entire enterprise

22. Why:
• Extend your existing Jira Align data into custom
visualizations
• Create custom reports to visualize the information
important to your organization
• Group metrics from multiple portfolios to create
enterprise dashboards
• Unite program and portfolio data and trends
Solution: Jira Align + Enterprise Insights

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