objective

Sep
13
2020
By Clarence Galapon

Goals and Objectives

goal, goal setting, objective
Day 166. Make your sprint or iteration goals unambiguous! Focus on those to know exactly the priority of things and what to spend time on and what you can drop. Find those time-wasting activities and efforts ... streamline these so you can make it home for dinner. Manage Work In Process (WIP). Too much WIP lengthens your Lead Time (commitment to completion time). Utilization of any resource — including your team — must be 80% or less! Asking people to take on ‘overtime work... work longer hours’ to reduce Lead Time is a step in the wrong direction ... it…
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Jan
02
2020
By Clarence Galapon

SAFe 5.0

objective, pi objective, SAFe 5.0
Bye 'Stretch Objectives' Hello 'Uncommitted Objectives'! SAFe makers recognized that a lot of people got tripped by the word 'Stretch'... so they've replaced it with 'Uncommitted'... just to make clearer the same intent: knowing that the work is important (could be very or most important), the team will do the best they can -- capacity will be allocated; still part of the plan; included in the team's load for the PI (Program Increment) -- but will not be penalized if not achieved... this situation happens when there are too much unknowns... impossible to commit to... but it is not a…
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Nov
27
2019
By Clarence Galapon

There Are Two Sides Of A Bridge… And The Bridge Is…

key results, objective, OKR and CFR
Last night, my wife, son, daughter and I watched the movie, Frozen II. We had a great time; the movie theatre was nice (gigantic screen--IMAX; huge reclining lounge chairs; fresh popcorns; refreshing water) and the movie was great! There is a line in the movie that I immediately correlated to lean agile; Elsa to Anna: ' There are two sides of a bridge...' My correlation of that line to lean agile is this: Side #1) intent. Give intent; not instructions. This will be more meaningful to people... they get to perform something in their own way. Let your people think!…
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Nov
13
2019
By Clarence Galapon

SAFe is Goals Driven, Not Prescriptive

Intent, iteration goal, objective, Program PI Objective, SMART Goals, Solution PI Objective, Team PI Objective
SAFe is goals driven and not prescriptive. A goal-driven approach makes SAFe flexible and easy to scale. Companies scale agile based on factors that deliver the greatest customer value. In other words, by determining what the intent, goals and objectives are, companies can choose to scale in a way that supports the creation and delivery of products and services that are customer centric, desirable, feasible, viable and sustainable.
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Nov
05
2019
By Clarence Galapon

From Intent To Objective To Goals

alignment, Intent, iteration goal, objective, OKR and CFR, pi objective
Intent is a 'broad stoke of the brush' kind of sketch of what you want to achieve... without providing instructions on how to achieve it... to provide others an opportunity to lean in and think creatively on how to achieve it -- the intent -- in their own way. Example: intent: [I intend to] lose weight What does an intent look like if you want it to be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound? And yet not providing instructions on how to achieve it? Make it SMART! Example: [I intend to] lose 50 pounds, one year from now. How about…
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Oct
23
2018
By Clarence Galapon
System Demo

System Demo

objective, system demo
SAFe has an event at the program level that occurs at the end of each iteration -- it is the system demo. System demo's big idea is in alignment to SAFe Principle #5 -- base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems. So ... what to demo? Demo the completed feature that best represents the achievement of the advancement of the Program Increment (PI) Objectives. It is a higher level of demo ... higher than the team-level stories demo. Find that demo-able part of completed feature (feature that advances the PI objective) and show it to the whole ART! Who…
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