SAFe 6.o Practice – Page 2

Dec

23

2023

Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race-Car?

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

I was at the mall and saw this race-car... I then sent these pictures I've taken (shown here) to my fellow founding partners at Applied Lean Agile ... and Steve responded back to my text with this: "Built for performance! Tuned for Efficiency! Engineered for Speed! -- How can we orient our Teams like this? With Quality Built-in to what they do?" Impressive thought! Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race Car? Is your SAFe Lean Agile Team and ART Built for Performance, Tuned for Efficiency, and Engineered for Speed?! If not... then how can…

Dec

22

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Achieve With Smallest Steps — Apply Kaizen Anywhere, Anytime, and Everyday

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step -- Chinese proverb Small is beautiful! Small is not intimidating. For example, a Feature, once it is decomposed into small stories (i.e., 1 or 2 points in size... maximum 3 points) it is no longer intimidating.... specially if the stories are all 1 point in size! A 1 point story -- the smallest size -- is singular in nature... and the vision (intent) of the story is clear, easy to understand, it is not complex, and it is not ambiguous. A small thing is easy to start and finished…

Dec

21

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Achieve With Smallest Steps — Apply Kaizen Anywhere, Anytime, and Everyday

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step -- Chinese proverb Small is beautiful! Small is not intimidating. For example, a Feature, once it is decomposed into small stories (i.e., 1 or 2 points in size... maximum 3 points) it is no longer intimidating.... specially if the stories are all 1 point in size! A 1 point story -- the smallest size -- is singular in nature... and the vision (intent) of the story is clear, easy to understand, it is not complex, and it is not ambiguous. A small thing is easy to start and finished…

Dec

20

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- The Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do).…

Dec

19

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- The Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do).…

Dec

18

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- The Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do).…

Dec

17

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race-Car?

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

I was at the mall and saw this race-car... I then sent these pictures I've taken (shown here) to my fellow founding partners at Applied Lean Agile ... and Steve responded back to my text with this: "Built for performance! Tuned for Efficiency! Engineered for Speed! -- How can we orient our Teams like this? With Quality Built-in to what they do?" Impressive thought! Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race Car? Is your SAFe Lean Agile Team and ART Built for Performance, Tuned for Efficiency, and Engineered for Speed?! If not... then how can…

Dec

14

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Capacity Is Fixed

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Maersk. Every time that I see a Maersk container on the road… I get reminded the Agile concept of fixed capacity. The cost of the container is also fixed. A business person may ‘buy’ a fixed-capacity Maersk container at a fixed-price. The business person may fill up the container with anything as long as it is legal… The content of the container is listed on the manifest. The business person picks one of the fixed set of shipment dates. The shipping company maintains a cadenced schedule to allow business people to plan as to when to ship their valuables. Sounds…

Dec

13

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Capacity Is Fixed

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Maersk. Every time that I see a Maersk container on the road… I get reminded the Agile concept of fixed capacity. The cost of the container is also fixed. A business person may ‘buy’ a fixed-capacity Maersk container at a fixed-price. The business person may fill up the container with anything as long as it is legal… The content of the container is listed on the manifest. The business person picks one of the fixed set of shipment dates. The shipping company maintains a cadenced schedule to allow business people to plan as to when to ship their valuables. Sounds…

Dec

12

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Achieve With Smallest Steps — Apply Kaizen Anywhere, Anytime, and Everyday

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step -- Chinese proverb Small is beautiful! Small is not intimidating. For example, a Feature, once it is decomposed into small stories (i.e., 1 or 2 points in size... maximum 3 points) it is no longer intimidating.... specially if the stories are all 1 point in size! A 1 point story -- the smallest size -- is singular in nature... and the vision (intent) of the story is clear, easy to understand, it is not complex, and it is not ambiguous. A small thing is easy to start and finished…

Dec

11

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Measure and Visualize the Trend of “Actual over Planned” Ratio

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

There is a topic my new book, "SAFe (6.0) Is Like ...", titled "Measure Actual Versus Planned" . It tackles the fact that a lot of us measure planned velocity and actual velocity; however, a lot of us stop short. Too short. We forget to apply Statistical Control to our Processes. Statistics is the study of numerical information, called data. Planned velocity and Actual velocity are just data. However, when we use these information as part of a "large mirror", it shows us if our processes are in-control or out-of-control. So... don't stop at Planned velocity and Actual velocity data...…

Dec

10

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race-Car?

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

I was at the mall and saw this race-car... I then sent these pictures I've taken (shown here) to my fellow founding partners at Applied Lean Agile ... and Steve responded back to my text with this: "Built for performance! Tuned for Efficiency! Engineered for Speed! -- How can we orient our Teams like this? With Quality Built-in to what they do?" Impressive thought! Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race Car? Is your SAFe Lean Agile Team and ART Built for Performance, Tuned for Efficiency, and Engineered for Speed?! If not... then how can…

Dec

09

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race-Car?

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

I was at the mall and saw this race-car... I then sent these pictures I've taken (shown here) to my fellow founding partners at Applied Lean Agile ... and Steve responded back to my text with this: "Built for performance! Tuned for Efficiency! Engineered for Speed! -- How can we orient our Teams like this? With Quality Built-in to what they do?" Impressive thought! Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race Car? Is your SAFe Lean Agile Team and ART Built for Performance, Tuned for Efficiency, and Engineered for Speed?! If not... then how can…

Dec

08

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race-Car?

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

I was at the mall and saw this race-car... I then sent these pictures I've taken (shown here) to my fellow founding partners at Applied Lean Agile ... and Steve responded back to my text with this: "Built for performance! Tuned for Efficiency! Engineered for Speed! -- How can we orient our Teams like this? With Quality Built-in to what they do?" Impressive thought! Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race Car? Is your SAFe Lean Agile Team and ART Built for Performance, Tuned for Efficiency, and Engineered for Speed?! If not... then how can…

Dec

07

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race-Car?

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

I was at the mall and saw this race-car... I then sent these pictures I've taken (shown here) to my fellow founding partners at Applied Lean Agile ... and Steve responded back to my text with this: "Built for performance! Tuned for Efficiency! Engineered for Speed! -- How can we orient our Teams like this? With Quality Built-in to what they do?" Impressive thought! Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race Car? Is your SAFe Lean Agile Team and ART Built for Performance, Tuned for Efficiency, and Engineered for Speed?! If not... then how can…

Dec

06

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race-Car?

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

I was at the mall and saw this race-car... I then sent these pictures I've taken (shown here) to my fellow founding partners at Applied Lean Agile ... and Steve responded back to my text with this: "Built for performance! Tuned for Efficiency! Engineered for Speed! -- How can we orient our Teams like this? With Quality Built-in to what they do?" Impressive thought! Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race Car? Is your SAFe Lean Agile Team and ART Built for Performance, Tuned for Efficiency, and Engineered for Speed?! If not... then how can…

Dec

05

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race-Car?

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

I was at the mall and saw this race-car... I then sent these pictures I've taken (shown here) to my fellow founding partners at Applied Lean Agile ... and Steve responded back to my text with this: "Built for performance! Tuned for Efficiency! Engineered for Speed! -- How can we orient our Teams like this? With Quality Built-in to what they do?" Impressive thought! Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race Car? Is your SAFe Lean Agile Team and ART Built for Performance, Tuned for Efficiency, and Engineered for Speed?! If not... then how can…

Dec

04

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race-Car?

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

I was at the mall and saw this race-car... I then sent these pictures I've taken (shown here) to my fellow founding partners at Applied Lean Agile ... and Steve responded back to my text with this: "Built for performance! Tuned for Efficiency! Engineered for Speed! -- How can we orient our Teams like this? With Quality Built-in to what they do?" Impressive thought! Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race Car? Is your SAFe Lean Agile Team and ART Built for Performance, Tuned for Efficiency, and Engineered for Speed?! If not... then how can…

Dec

03

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Make It Small — Small Is Simple and Fast, And Increases Your Probabilities of Success

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

In Lean Agile, small is simple and fast ! "Why? And how small should it be?", you might ask. SAFe Lean Agile Principle #6 states: Make value flow without interruptions And accelerate the flow! One of the many flow accelerators is "Work in Smaller Batches". Why? The same "Why" we are moving away from Waterfall to Lean Agile: Faster feedback! Faster feedback is one of the primary reasons for working in smaller batches. The smaller the size, the faster teams can collect and evaluate the feedback to adjust. Think about it... Waterfall: One huge batch... and you can only see…

Dec

02

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Make It Small — Small Is Simple and Fast, And Increases Your Probabilities of Success

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

In Lean Agile, small is simple and fast ! "Why? And how small should it be?", you might ask. SAFe Lean Agile Principle #6 states: Make value flow without interruptions And accelerate the flow! One of the many flow accelerators is "Work in Smaller Batches". Why? The same "Why" we are moving away from Waterfall to Lean Agile: Faster feedback! Faster feedback is one of the primary reasons for working in smaller batches. The smaller the size, the faster teams can collect and evaluate the feedback to adjust. Think about it... Waterfall: One huge batch... and you can only see…

Dec

02

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- The Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do).…

Dec

01

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- The Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do).…

Nov

30

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do). In…

Nov

29

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do). In…

Nov

29

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do). In…

Nov

28

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do). In…

Nov

28

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do). In…

Nov

27

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Post-Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

26

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Post-Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

25

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Post-Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…