1) The document discusses SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), a framework for scaling agile practices in large organizations. It describes what SAFe is, how it was created, and some of its key aspects like iterations and portfolio planning.
2) The document notes that while SAFe has some interesting ideas, it is not universally loved and some find its documentation and processes overwhelming. It discusses alternatives like Scrum of Scrums and Disciplined Agile Delivery.
3) For organizations that are using SAFe, the document recommends customizing it to your needs, disagreeing and committing constructively, taking inspiration from other implementations, and making it your own through ownership and continuous improvement. The overall message is that
Building Character: Creating Consistent Experiences With Design Principles- ...Mad*Pow
Inconsistency is one of the most common points of breakdown and frustration in the interactions and experiences we have. Whether we’re interacting with other people, applications, our bank, our doctor, our government, anyone, we form expectations and understandings of what someone or something will do based on our previous experiences and their past behaviors. When something happens that doesn’t fit with those expectations–that seems out of character–we’re caught off guard. What do we do next? What should we expect now?
Principles act as rules that guide how we think and act. Formed by our motivations, values, and beliefs, we use them as “lenses” through which we examine information in order to make decisions on what to do. And because of their persistent influence on our behavior, they influence other’s views and expectations of us. Using these same kinds of constructs throughout the design process we can design interactions and consistent behaviors that set and live up to expectations for our audiences.
Killing Agile Software Development : Presented by Rizky Syaiful oGuild .
Last month (June 2016), I helped a well-known higher education institute in Indonesia. I train the lecturers there, so that their students can practice agile software development.
[I show the audience some photos and videos as the proofs]
Can you imagine a condition when all our CS/IT students already get the real experiences of proper Scrum, Automated Testing, etc?
In that imaginary world, agile software development is already the norm! In the other side, there is no more room for Waterfall’s Big-Design-Up-Front style. Because we know that any software problem is inherently a design problem—or complex problem in Cynefin framework. You can’t solve that kind of problem by designing a big-fixed solution up in the front.
And if almost every software development is already agile—as it was visioned back then in 2001 manifesto, why would we still use ‘agile’ term?
We invent words to categorize things. Before ‘agile’ was proposed in the 2001 manifesto, they called it ‘lightweight’. Because it’s different with the previous heavy weight Waterfall.
Now, when I say the word ‘computer’, what would your brain emulate? A mainframe computer? Or a personal computer? Both of them are literally a computing machine. I put my money on personal computer. Because almost everyone see personal computer in daily basis. And they haven’t seen any mainframe computer once in their life.
Just as the dead of ‘personal’ term, in ‘personal computer’—I don’t count PC because that’s an abbreviation—‘agile’ in ‘agile software development’ will also be dead.
Not because it’s bad. On the contrary, that’s because agility the best option for software development.
In 2026 I, believe, we will call it simply as ‘software development’.
Please help the world to reach that kind of utopia, at least by telling your ex-lecturers, “you should teach agile software development properly”.
We should be so proud for standing here. Being a part of agile software development movement, of the 21st century.
Why?
Because a good movement always has a goal,
this agile software development movement also has a clear end.
Organisations and usually pretty bed when it comes to self diagnose their own problem and even worse when choosing a solution for the badly diagnosed problem.
Understanding the basic of complexity and system thinking can help a lot, providing foundations for a different mindset and a surprising solutions toolkit.
Building Character: Creating Consistent Experiences With Design Principles- ...Mad*Pow
Inconsistency is one of the most common points of breakdown and frustration in the interactions and experiences we have. Whether we’re interacting with other people, applications, our bank, our doctor, our government, anyone, we form expectations and understandings of what someone or something will do based on our previous experiences and their past behaviors. When something happens that doesn’t fit with those expectations–that seems out of character–we’re caught off guard. What do we do next? What should we expect now?
Principles act as rules that guide how we think and act. Formed by our motivations, values, and beliefs, we use them as “lenses” through which we examine information in order to make decisions on what to do. And because of their persistent influence on our behavior, they influence other’s views and expectations of us. Using these same kinds of constructs throughout the design process we can design interactions and consistent behaviors that set and live up to expectations for our audiences.
Killing Agile Software Development : Presented by Rizky Syaiful oGuild .
Last month (June 2016), I helped a well-known higher education institute in Indonesia. I train the lecturers there, so that their students can practice agile software development.
[I show the audience some photos and videos as the proofs]
Can you imagine a condition when all our CS/IT students already get the real experiences of proper Scrum, Automated Testing, etc?
In that imaginary world, agile software development is already the norm! In the other side, there is no more room for Waterfall’s Big-Design-Up-Front style. Because we know that any software problem is inherently a design problem—or complex problem in Cynefin framework. You can’t solve that kind of problem by designing a big-fixed solution up in the front.
And if almost every software development is already agile—as it was visioned back then in 2001 manifesto, why would we still use ‘agile’ term?
We invent words to categorize things. Before ‘agile’ was proposed in the 2001 manifesto, they called it ‘lightweight’. Because it’s different with the previous heavy weight Waterfall.
Now, when I say the word ‘computer’, what would your brain emulate? A mainframe computer? Or a personal computer? Both of them are literally a computing machine. I put my money on personal computer. Because almost everyone see personal computer in daily basis. And they haven’t seen any mainframe computer once in their life.
Just as the dead of ‘personal’ term, in ‘personal computer’—I don’t count PC because that’s an abbreviation—‘agile’ in ‘agile software development’ will also be dead.
Not because it’s bad. On the contrary, that’s because agility the best option for software development.
In 2026 I, believe, we will call it simply as ‘software development’.
Please help the world to reach that kind of utopia, at least by telling your ex-lecturers, “you should teach agile software development properly”.
We should be so proud for standing here. Being a part of agile software development movement, of the 21st century.
Why?
Because a good movement always has a goal,
this agile software development movement also has a clear end.
Organisations and usually pretty bed when it comes to self diagnose their own problem and even worse when choosing a solution for the badly diagnosed problem.
Understanding the basic of complexity and system thinking can help a lot, providing foundations for a different mindset and a surprising solutions toolkit.
What does it take to transform a new design team into a well-oiled machine that’s creative, passionate, and productive?
Whether you’re a new team in a large corporation or a seed-funded startup, there are all kinds of added challenges that aren’t necessarily part of the design process. How do you demonstrate the value of design to an organization who has never worked directly with an interaction designer? How do you find the right cadence for your work and the right balance in responsibilities? How do you share the process without losing control of design as a specialty?
I’ll share a few stories from my experience building a team of designers at American Express Serve, including our approach to making great work and how we’re tackling the wide open possibilities that come after achieving stability.
400% growth in 3 years - How we built a high powered saas content marketplace...saastr
In 2016, SaaS content marketplace company Verblio was stalled at $2M ARR. Since then, they’ve grown 400% without taking a dime in funding. CEO Steve Pockross and Sr. Director of Operations Zoe Treeson will discuss how they sparked that growth through key strategic decisions like putting people & culture first (and what that really means), prioritizing product over sales & marketing, and even the SaaS-sacrilegious decision to invest in professional services to support their core offering.
The title of this workshop is a reference to The Artist Is Present, a performance art piece by Marina Abramovic. Marina spent months at MOMA sitting silently across from a nearly endless series of museum visitors, some of whom broke into tears.
The notion of presence is a critical idea for those of us in user experience. At the risk of sounding like Yoda, presence is tied to self-knowing. During ten years of writing, lecturing and coaching on “interviewing users”, many of the questions that Steve Portigal receives are about controlling or influencing another person’s behavior. Yet these interactions with others are really about ourselves, what’s inside us, who we are.
Therapists, as part of their education, must go through therapy themselves. They are expected to achieve a certain level of insight about themselves — their biases, their discomforts, and so on. While we are not therapists, we go out and study people without that level of self-insight!
A lack of self-insight sometimes manifests itself as passion, commitment, or being driven by a mission. While those have their place, it’s easy to become blinded by what we can’t let ourselves see. Sometimes this shows up as discomfort at the micro level, when we react to something a user might tell us about themselves; sometimes it’s a macro issue, when we’re uncomfortable with people who hold different values, preferences, or beliefs than ourselves. And it crescendos as know-it-all douchebaggery, when we think our job is to tell other people what’s best for them — when phrases like “frictionless sharing” fall from our lips as naturally as “what time is dinner?”
In this workshop, you’ll tap into a new level of personal authenticity to unlock a powerful boon. Together, we’ll explore this point of view and participate in a range of exercises to learn more about these ideas — and about ourselves.
I volunteered as the presentation coach for App Camp for Girls in 2017 and 2018. In my 2018 slides, I covered tips about storytelling, understanding and speaking to your audience, presentation design, presentation delivery, and specifics for their App Camp for Girls "pitch" (where the campers demo their app to a panel of friendly "judges"). Learn more about this great organization: http://appcamp4girls.com/
Eight steps to leading a successful SharePoint project. Based on the article 'Leading Change' by John P Kotter with examples based on experiences with SharePoint projects over the past decade. Focused on business value, not technical fe
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What does it take to transform a new design team into a well-oiled machine that’s creative, passionate, and productive?
Whether you’re a new team in a large corporation or a seed-funded startup, there are all kinds of added challenges that aren’t necessarily part of the design process. How do you demonstrate the value of design to an organization who has never worked directly with an interaction designer? How do you find the right cadence for your work and the right balance in responsibilities? How do you share the process without losing control of design as a specialty?
I’ll share a few stories from my experience building a team of designers at American Express Serve, including our approach to making great work and how we’re tackling the wide open possibilities that come after achieving stability.
400% growth in 3 years - How we built a high powered saas content marketplace...saastr
In 2016, SaaS content marketplace company Verblio was stalled at $2M ARR. Since then, they’ve grown 400% without taking a dime in funding. CEO Steve Pockross and Sr. Director of Operations Zoe Treeson will discuss how they sparked that growth through key strategic decisions like putting people & culture first (and what that really means), prioritizing product over sales & marketing, and even the SaaS-sacrilegious decision to invest in professional services to support their core offering.
The title of this workshop is a reference to The Artist Is Present, a performance art piece by Marina Abramovic. Marina spent months at MOMA sitting silently across from a nearly endless series of museum visitors, some of whom broke into tears.
The notion of presence is a critical idea for those of us in user experience. At the risk of sounding like Yoda, presence is tied to self-knowing. During ten years of writing, lecturing and coaching on “interviewing users”, many of the questions that Steve Portigal receives are about controlling or influencing another person’s behavior. Yet these interactions with others are really about ourselves, what’s inside us, who we are.
Therapists, as part of their education, must go through therapy themselves. They are expected to achieve a certain level of insight about themselves — their biases, their discomforts, and so on. While we are not therapists, we go out and study people without that level of self-insight!
A lack of self-insight sometimes manifests itself as passion, commitment, or being driven by a mission. While those have their place, it’s easy to become blinded by what we can’t let ourselves see. Sometimes this shows up as discomfort at the micro level, when we react to something a user might tell us about themselves; sometimes it’s a macro issue, when we’re uncomfortable with people who hold different values, preferences, or beliefs than ourselves. And it crescendos as know-it-all douchebaggery, when we think our job is to tell other people what’s best for them — when phrases like “frictionless sharing” fall from our lips as naturally as “what time is dinner?”
In this workshop, you’ll tap into a new level of personal authenticity to unlock a powerful boon. Together, we’ll explore this point of view and participate in a range of exercises to learn more about these ideas — and about ourselves.
I volunteered as the presentation coach for App Camp for Girls in 2017 and 2018. In my 2018 slides, I covered tips about storytelling, understanding and speaking to your audience, presentation design, presentation delivery, and specifics for their App Camp for Girls "pitch" (where the campers demo their app to a panel of friendly "judges"). Learn more about this great organization: http://appcamp4girls.com/
Eight steps to leading a successful SharePoint project. Based on the article 'Leading Change' by John P Kotter with examples based on experiences with SharePoint projects over the past decade. Focused on business value, not technical fe
Palestra "The importance of planning in CMS Projects" ministrada pela Just Digital na Drupal Picchu 2014, evento latino realizado em Cusco no Perú, para a comunidade de desenvolvedores Drupal. A palestra foi ministrada pelo João Paulo Seregatte da Just no lugar do Rafael Cichini.
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1. Your Scale, Your Rules!
and how to survive SAFe
by Pedro Gustavo Torres
November 2022
2. Hello there!
Unicorn
“meter”
(10x)
Senior Engineering Leader
Leading Engineering for 14 years
Portuguese living and working from Portugal
CTO Portugal co-founder || Hey CTO! co-host
Investor and Advisor
Star Wars and Lego fan
Mostly vegetarian and Non-drinker
2015
2018
2022
(IPO)
Pedro Gustavo Torres
3. Disclaimer
This is based on my opinion and from others and should not be considered an absolute
truth.
I’m not a SAFe expert… I just know one thing or two about agility and software delivery
This will not be a presentation bashing SAFe.
This will not be a presentation bragging SAFe either.
No animals were harmed in the making of this presentation.
9. Scaled Agile Framework
Dean Leffingwell, Creator of SAFe® and Chief Methodologist at
Scaled Agile, Inc.
Initial release in 2011
Core Values
Lean-Agile Mindset
SAFe Principles
What is SAFe?
12. What do (notable) people say
about it?
“Interesting” points-of-view 👀
13. SAFe isn’t the most loved framework out there
What do (notable) people I say about it?
14. SAFe isn’t the most loved framework out there
What do (notable) people I say about it?
15. SAFe isn’t the most loved framework out there
What do (notable) people say about it?
16. SAFe isn’t the most loved framework out there
What do (notable) people say about it?
17. SAFe isn’t the most loved framework out there
What do (notable) people say about it?
18. SAFe isn’t the most loved framework out there
What do (notable) people say about it?
19. SAFe isn’t the most loved framework out there
What do (notable) people say about it?
20. SAFe isn’t the most loved framework out there
What do (notable) people say about it?
21. SAFe isn’t the most loved framework out there
What do (notable) people say about it?
22. SAFe isn’t the most loved framework out there
What do (notable) people say about it?
23. SAFe isn’t the most loved framework out there
What do (notable) people say about it?
24. SAFe isn’t the most loved framework out there
What do (notable) people say about it?
25. SAFe isn’t the most loved framework out there
What do (notable) people say about it?
Tobias Mayer looking at the SAFE’s diagram during his keynote at CAS 2013:
“This one makes my head hurt… it makes me want to turn away from this… in sort of with a sense of despair to be honest”
30. So you are left with a couple of choices
Disagree and Commit
Take inspiration from other implementations
Using it in a way that makes sense to you
Roll up your sleeves and own it
But you are “stuck” with SAFe
42. What do I think about SAFe?
There are some interesting ideas behind it (e.g. Iterations, PI Planning, Portfolio view, Continuous
Learning)
There are some things that I really dislike (e.g. Scrum Master, Product Owner, Solution Architects,
ART, lengthy PI, corporate buzzwords, agile buzzwords)
Just like Scrum you can (and should) customise it
Do whatever works for you
Transparency, Inspect and Adapt
Closing thoughts
43. What do I think about SAFe?
There are some interesting ideas behind it (e.g. Iterations, PI Planning, Portfolio view, Continuous
Learning)
There are some things that I really dislike (e.g. Scrum Master, Product Owner, Solution Architects,
ART, lengthy PI, corporate buzzwords, agile buzzwords)
Just like Scrum you can (and should) customise it
Do whatever works for you
Transparency, Inspect and Adapt
Closing thoughts