This is how it looks like -- as portrayed in this Dilbert cartoon -- when waterfall is spray painted with a cheap paint and called it Agile. Is this your world right now? If yes, then how would you handle it... how would you turn it from this waterfall iron triangle -- fixed scope, fixed deadline, and fixed quality -- into a true Agile way? To be continued...
Have you ever wondered and thought, 'hmm... this story...we Design/Define, Build, Test, Deploy within the iteration...looks like waterfall... in a micro scale!' In that context, yes indeed! You are driving and delivering the value that is encapsulated in a Story using the classic waterfall steps: Design/Define, Build, Test, and potentially Deploy. The grand scheme of SAFe is similar... waterfall... albeit in macro scale. SAFe drives the Epic (the big idea of value)... into smaller chunks of value (features ; or collections of features called capabilities) to 'Continuous Exploration' (CE), the 'Design/Define' ... to 'Continuous Integration' (CI), the 'Build' and 'Test'...…
