This document discusses enablers in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). There are three types of enablers - exploration enablers which support learning what to develop in a feature, architectural enablers which help accelerate feature development through reusable architecture, and compliance enablers which support activities like validation and documentation for external compliance. Enablers can exist at the portfolio, program, and team levels and are broken down into smaller stories to implement at the team level. Teams allocate capacity at each program increment boundary to decide what percentage of work will go to developing enablers versus features, with more capacity initially going to enablers.

1. (Scaled Agile
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ENABLERS
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2. Enablers In SAFe®
available at
Portfolio level,
Program Level and
at the Team level
as follows...

3. Epic Enabler in Portfolio Backlog1
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4. Enabler Features & Capabilities
in Program Backlog
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5. Enabler Stories in Team Backlog
Along with other Features
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6. Do you make them visible
Do you do any sort of preparatory or
foundational work before and during
developing a feature?
You can make them visible using
Enablers
What is Enabler?
Enable efficient development & delivery of
future business requirements.
Enablers are containers which makes this
preparatory work visible.

7. Types of
Enabler
Let’s Categorise the various
kind of preparatory work
which you used to do in
Developing Features:-

8. •You explore customer behavior
•You develop spike to research for a feature
•You create prototypes to get understanding
from the customer
The work which
supports all these
learning's is called
Exploration Enablers.
ExploRation Enablers
What you explore to develop a feature?
You learn (explore)
many times to
develop a feature

9. Architectural Enablers - Business
Needs are evolving in nature, it
needs architecture to accelerate
the development of features. The
work to make this acceleration is
called architectural enablers.
For Example :-
A search facility can be
used by multiple Features
Architectural Enablers

10. Compliance Enablers – You do
many activities to make sure
external compliance's like -
- Verification and Validation from
different stakeholders
- Documentation work as per the
compliances
- Approvals and regulatory
submissions
The work which supports all these activities
is called Compliance Enablers.
Compliance Enablers

11. How to Develop Enablers?
Enablers can be sized in story points
Counted in velocity/capacity either
at team or program level
Program level enablers are called-
Enabler Features and Capabilities
At a Team level – We have small size
enablers and these are called Enabler
Stories
If Size of an enabler is big – These are
Epic Enabler, exist at the portfolio level
Incrementally
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These Enablers can exist at any level
At the team level - Portfolio and program
level enablers are decomposed and finally
They are implemented at the team level.

12. How To allocate capacity to work on
Enablers?
At each PI boundary, the team on agree
What percentage of work will go to
Enablers along with other features?
Team agreement is important for this
capacity allocation and this allocation
may vary from time to time. – Initially,
more capacity can be allocated to
enablers compared to the
development of features.

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