Year: 2019

Dec
31
2019
By Clarence Galapon

SAFe 5.0

SAFe 5.0
Happy New Year, 2020!!! Very excited on SAFe 5.0!!! October 15, 2022: My new book, "SAFe Is Like ...", is now available on Amazon.  What our students think about the Lean Agile Guru ("Author of SAFe is Like ...") -- click here You will get a FREE SIGNED COPY if/when you register, pay, and complete a class by the Lean Agile Guru.  
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Dec
29
2019
By Clarence Galapon

SAFe 5.0

SAFe 5.0
More on the Organizational Agility's three dimensions: Lean Thinking by People and Agile Teams: create an enterprise-wide Lean Agile Mindset Lean Business Operations -- remove waste... make the enterprise a Lean Enterprise... Lean out the Value Stream... implement the SAFe House of Lean. Strategy Agility --- the ability of the enterprise to respond quickly to opportunities and threats There you have it: one of the seven competencies with its three dimensions. This is a good way to ingest SAFe 5.0: in small bite-sized pieces. How do you eat an elephant? One small bite at a time. To be continued...
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Dec
28
2019
By Clarence Galapon

SAFe 5.0

SAFe 5.0
Let's look at the three dimensions per competency... Organizational Agility (AO): Lean Thinking People and Agile Teams (LT PAT) Lean Business Operations (LBO) Strategy Agility (SA) You can see my mnemonic in parentheses... it has meaning to me... and I've created a story behind the whole set of mnemonic items for easier memorization and faster recall. To be continued... October 15, 2022: My new book, "SAFe Is Like ...", is now available on Amazon.  What our students think about the Lean Agile Guru ("Author of SAFe is Like ...") -- click here You will get a FREE SIGNED COPY if/when…
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Dec
27
2019
By Clarence Galapon

SAFe 5.0

SAFe 5.0
The seven competencies Organizational Agility Continuous Learning Culture Lean Agile Leadership Team and Technical Agility Agile Product Delivery Enterprise Solution Delivery Lean Portfolio Management Since SAFe 5.0 is new, I suggest that you make a mnemonic of your own for each of these competencies... for faster recall... at least as a crutch for now. Mine would be the first letters of each word of each. I made it meaningful in my mind... to make it stick. There are three dimensions per competency... to be continued... October 15, 2022: My new book, "SAFe Is Like ...", is now available on Amazon. …
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Dec
11
2019
By Clarence Galapon

Too Focused

Analogy
Got pulled over for speeding several days ago... too focused on getting to my destination -- my daughter's middle school... so in that zone... in that flow... getting 'from point A to point B'... did not even see how fast I was going even though I got the heads-up display of my speed in front of me... did not feel I was speeding... did not even see the police car waiting -- for speedsters-- on the the median! Sometimes -- specially in our rush --- we forget to check our surroundings... and we get a setback ... a penalty... a…
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Dec
08
2019
By Clarence Galapon

BDD and Acceptance Criteria

Automated Testing, BDD
With Behavior Driven Development (BDD), a typical list-based Acceptance Criteria is dumped and replaced by Tests... using Gherkin 'Language'... which has the 'Given... When... Then' format. The Gherkin based Acceptance Criteria can then be input to the Automated Test tool called Cucumber. Automation is a key success factor in Lean Agile... therefore, aim to automate as many aspects of your delivery workflow. The aim of BDD is same as TDD and ATDD: write the test first ... develop... and automate testing where possible.
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Dec
06
2019
By Clarence Galapon

The Nutcracker

SAFe, The Nutcracker
The Nutcracker -- a professional ballet and high-budget show wherein each participant knows his/her role, what he/she needs to do, and he/she does it well. Including the orchestra! SAFe has roles too... and each participant knows his/her role, what he/she needs to do, and he/she does it well. Correct? Welcome to the opening night -- December 6, 2019 -- of the Charlotte Ballet's 'The Nutcracker'!
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Dec
05
2019
By Clarence Galapon

Customer Centric Desirable Products and Services

Break Time
Pizzeria Omaggio just exudes quality of food and you can sense a pride of workmanship in their people... their service and product -- their food -- are just pure high quality; the people there are very friendly and welcoming; the ambience is very relaxing. Try it when you are in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Delivering customer centric desirable products and services... is what it is all about... results is the name of the game; we can do the same in the software industry... delivering valuable, feasible, sustainable, customer centric desirable products and services.
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Dec
04
2019
By Clarence Galapon

SAFe … Playing Catch-Up?

Disciplined Agile, PMI, SAFe 5.0
Two things I've seen as new in SAFe 5.0: 1) Customer Centric + Design Thinking 2) Organizational / Business Agility These are already in 'Disciplined Agile' ... an Agile framework that was acquired by PMI this year, 2019! Will be an interesting year 2020 for SAFe and PMI + Disciplined Agile.
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Dec
03
2019
By Clarence Galapon

Strong ‘Why’

Adapt
Blockbuster Blackberry Borders Kodak ... many more These were strong companies with intelligent people ... all went on downward spiral... they did not have a strong 'why'... to adapt to digital disruptions... they sat on their laurels... your company could be next... 'It's not the strongest species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.' -- Charles Darwin Find your strong 'why'... and put a sense of urgency to it... and put action behind it... adapt... or perish.
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