The ART of Avoiding a Train Wreck Presented by Em Campbell-Pretty & Adrienne Wilson At the Canberra SAFe & DSM Meetup 31st July 2019 If you are thinking about launching your first ART or you are struggling with your existing ART(s) then this session is for you! In this session Em & Adrienne will share their “trade secrets” for launching and operating awesome Agile Release Trains. This will go well beyond the standard SAFe courseware, deep diving into practical tips and tricks that can be immediately applied in your context . Em & Adrienne will share war stories, experiments and lessons learnt over almost 10 years of real world experience implementing SAFe. Expect to learn: * The 4 ingredients for a successful train launch * How to “turn up the good” during PI execution * The common mistakes that lead to “train wrecks”

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Em Campbell-Pretty
Managing Director
@PrettyAgile
linkedin.com/in/ejcampbellpretty/
em@prettyagile.com.au
Adrienne Wilson
VP of Operations
@AgileCanuck
linkedin.com/in/adriennelwilson
adrienne@prettyagile.com
The ART of Avoiding a
Train Wreck!
Canberra SAFe and DSDM Meetup
Wednesday 31st July 2019

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Getting to know you…

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SAFe Training?
Experience with SAFe?

4. The 4 ingredients for a
successful train launch:
• Leadership Mindset
• Ready Features
• Real Agile Teams
• The knowledge with
which to execute

5. Leadership is the
foundation

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Those who can read and don’t are
only marginally better off than those
who can’t.
- Verne Harnish

9. The 4 ingredients for a
successful train launch:
• Leadership Mindset
• Ready Features
• Real Agile Teams
• The knowledge with
which to execute

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The one-week, all-in ART Quickstart approach
Want to know more: http://bit.ly/6DayQuickStart

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Agile
Leadership
is a
Team Sport

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Release Train Engineer (RTE)
Product Manager
System Architect
+ Line Managers
ART Leadership

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Feature Definition of Ready
q Short description
q Benefit Hypothesis
q Acceptance criteria
q High level solution
q Obvious dependencies
q High level estimate
q SMEs
q ….

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successful train launch:
• Leadership Mindset
• Ready Features
• Real Agile Teams
• The knowledge with
which to execute

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Cross Functional
teams of 7 ± 2
Feature Teams
of 7 ± 2

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“Self-selection is a facilitated process of
letting people self-organize into small,
cross-functional teams. Based on the
belief that people are at their happiest
and most productive if they can choose
what they work on and who they work
with…”
- Sandy Mamoli & David Mole, Creating Great Teams
http://bit.ly/SAFeSquadification

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Tue | Wed Thurs| Frid Mon
Train
Formation
Day
• Self
Selection
• Team
Product Box
• Working
Agreements
Want to know more: http://bit.ly/6DayQuickStart

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Team Formation Day
Self-Selection
Train Name & Theme
Team Names
Team as a Product Box
Social Contracts

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BART: Broadband Agile Release Train

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Team Product
Boxes

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Tribe T-Shirts

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29. The 4 ingredients for a
successful train launch:
• Leadership Mindset
• Ready Features
• Real Agile Teams
• The knowledge with
which to execute

30. 1.25© Scaled Agile, Inc. 1.25© Scaled Agile, Inc.
Train Everyone.
Launch Trains.

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Train Everyone!?!
…but my teams are already agile…
…but I don’t have the budget to train
EVERYONE…
…you mean everyone except the vendor
teams and contractors, right?

34. Teams work on their real
work in their real teams
Everyone hears the
same message from the
same trainers
Teams start to bond

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36. PI Execution

37. PI ExecutionPrepare for
PI Planning

38. 10% of team
capacity held
for next PI
Feature
readiness

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40. ART Sync

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Daily
Cocktail
Hour
Continuous
Human
Integration
Want to know more:
http://bit.ly/DailyCocktailHour

42. Inspect
& Adapt

43. Bubble Up
Want to know more: http://bit.ly/agilebubbleup

45. 10% of team
capacity held
for
innovation &
learning

46. PI Execution

47. Want to know more: http://bit.ly/UnityHour

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@PrettyAgile
www.prettyagile.com
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