Do this... You cycle through it until you are done. Be innovative... never stop investing new ways of solving problems. Hence the SAFe 'Innovation and Planning' iteration is very important. Use it for innovation and planning purposes.
Can you imagine talking about an idea to someone... and at the end of your talk they did not get what you were talking about? Have you had a coaching moment like that with your coachee? So, what to do? May I offer two things for your consideration: 1) Use the power of language: Build your idea piece by piece out of concepts that your coachee already understands using language that already exists in his/her mind… her/his language, not yours! Start where he/she is at. Use language to weave together the idea with the terms and concepts your coachee understands.…
Big and small Ideas / initiatives go through the portfolio level where these get vetted. Once approved, then it gets prioritized. Flow of work results from approved ideas or initiatives. However, a flow of work could also enter via the solution level, program level or team level ... these work are as a result of refactor, retrofit, technical debt, feedback loop work (i.e. removal of or addition of features to the product or the MVP that was released earlier in production), enablers, capabilities, spikes, etc. Note that work could eventually hit Agile Teams, work entering from any SAFe level (Portfolio;…
