portfolio

Oct

2018

Not Every Work Enters Through the SAFe Portfolio Level

first things first, funnel, idea, portfolio, program

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;…

Oct

2018

By Clarence Galapon

Idea approved, now what’s next?

approved, portfolio

So, your idea has just been approved and now part of the portfolio backlog... what's next? Pull it from the portfolio backlog to the program backlog? No. Get it prioritized first ... this way you are always working on the right thing at the right time all the time. If your idea is on the top / highest priority, then pull it from the portfolio backlog to the program backlog where it gets prioritized vis-a-vis the items that are already in the program backlog; when it bubbles up, then it can proceed to be worked on in the 'Continuous Exploration'…