The Agile Stream Framework (ASF) is designed to improve enterprise operations within the Agile software development life cycle by identifying and reducing operational drag. It defines roles such as Agile Team (AT), Agile Stream Team (AST), and Enterprise Stream Team (EST), each with specific responsibilities to address impediments and streamline processes. The framework incorporates tools like Story Drag Coefficient (SDC) and Daily Drag Index (2DI) to measure and visualize impediments impacting team productivity.

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AGILE STREAM FRAMEWORK
Agile approach to streamline agile SDLC v1.0

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Agile Stream Framework (ASF) is an approach to
streamline enterprise operations along agile software
development life cycle.
Use it to:
• Reduce operational drag.
• Guide agile transformations.
• Align management and agile goals.
• Support SAFe And Scrum teams.
Definition

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Drag within agile SDLC?
Sprint
Impediments
Retrospective
Improvement Backlog
Goal of ASF to identify and quantify operational drag slowing down agile teams.

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Agile Stream Framework (ASF)
Roles
Artifacts
Meetings

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Roles and Responsibilities
• Agile Team (AT)
• Agile Stream Team (AST)
• Enterprise Stream Team (EST)

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Agile Team (AT)
Team of individuals with all skills to deliver business value by
translating a sprint backlog work item (story) into an increment of
work within a time-box (sprint).
ASF Role:
• Daily, solve/raise impediments.
• Each retrospective, escalate
“world” backlog improvement
items.
ASF Requirements:
• Fixed sprint length (4,9,14,…)
• Known team capacity.
• Story points (T-Shirt, Fibonacci)
• Story business value*.

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Agile Stream Team (AST)
Team of individuals with authority to resolve impediments across
enterprise silos, typically mid and exec level managers.
ASF Role:
• Streamline operations for 2-5
agile teams.
• Rank and remove impediments.
• Delegate power to teams to
remove own impediments.
• Improve response SLA.
• Conduct A/B experiments
(kickoff, quality, etc..)
• Raise recommendation to EST.

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Enterprise Stream Team (EST)
Team of individuals with authority to remove impediments
within enterprise, typically exec level managers.
ASF Role:
• Lower enterprise drag by
enabling teams to resolve
impediments.
• Delegate power to teams to
remove own impediments.

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Team Interactions
Enterprise Stream
Team (EST)
Agile Stream
Team (AST)
Team 1-3
Agile Stream
Team (AST)
Team 4-6
• Impediments
• Improvements
• Recommend
• Lower Enterprise Drag
• Delegate AST, AT
• Streamline
• Resolve
• Lower Team
Drag
• Streamline
• Resolve
• Delegate
• Lower Team
Drag
• Impediments
• Improvements

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Agile Stream Framework
Roles
Artifacts
Meetings

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Artifacts
• Story Drag Coefficient (SDC)
• Daily Drag Index (2DI)
• Stream Board
• AST Dashboard

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Story Drag Coefficient (SDC)
• An agile-friendly constant that reflects the effect of
organizational drag (impediment) on teams’ capacity to
deliver within a time-box (sprint).
Team A Team B
Team C
ISP TC SL SDC
A 4 20 9 2.22%
B 4 20 4 5.00%
C 4 20 14 1.43%
SDC (% iteration) =
( Team Capacity x Sprint Length )
Impeded Story Points

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Daily Drag Index (2DI)
• Daily Drag Index dashboards highlight relative ranking of
impediments at a given day, based on AST’s strategy.
SP
TC
SL
DSC
(%)
BV
A
16
76
9
2.34%
250.00
B
8
45
9
1.98%
1,000.00
C
4
20
14
1.43%
500.00
SDC(d) SLA.SDC(d)BV.SDC(d)

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Stream Board
DAY/
SILO
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
SQA
(2)
Prod
(2)
Cust
(2)
Dev
(1) 4
1
5
Impediment board with WIP limits and silo boundary demarcations.
86
92
3
7

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AST Dashboard
Visualize drag around:
• Silos
• Teams
• SDLC

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Agile Stream Framework
Roles
Artifacts
Meetings

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Daily – Active Resolution
• AST meets every day for a maximum of 60 minutes with
AT representatives to review and update impediments
status.
• Impediment Status (up to 15 minutes)
• What was solved, in progress, blocked.
• New Escalated Impediments (Up to 15 minutes)
• AT SM, present impediments team unable to solve.
• Agile Stream Plan (Up to 30 minutes)
• Use 2DI and Stream Board to communicate plan.

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Monthly – Empower and Escalate
• AST/EST meets at least every two iterations to retrospect
and decide on areas to delegate authority or escalate to
enterprise stream teams.
• Review the empirical data from AST Dashboard.
• Proposes organizational change to resolve enterprise, silo, team
impediments to lower organizational drag.
• Reviews ‘improvement backlog’ items for opportunities to lower
organizational drag.