…These metrics enable the ART to identify opportunities for improvement (such as eliminating delays or reducing rework). Four primary metrics [1] are used (Figure 4): Active time is the time…
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Iteration Retrospective
…Inputs to iteration retrospective may include: Iteration goals The team’s increment List of improvement stories identified and the actions taken since the last retrospective Collection of agreed-to iteration metrics A…
Portfolio Flow
…metrics for each ART’s capacity to prevent more work from going to the teams than they can reasonably analyze and implement. Ignore sunk costs. Stop significant initiatives if they no…
Lean Portfolio Management
…coordinates portfolio governance Fosters decentralized PI Planning and operational excellence Establishes objective metrics and reports progress toward business agility Focuses the portfolio on measuring and improving value delivery Leads the…
Principle #6 – Make Value Flow Without Interruptions
…value stream. The SAFe Measure and Grow article describes six metrics —flow distribution, velocity, time, load, efficiency, and predictability—for measuring flow (see Figure 10). Figure 10. SAFe flow metrics Flow…
SAFe Beyond IT – Agile Risk Management
…to review current team-level metrics, which at first were extremely output-focused with no storyline within them towards outcomes. We drafted a new trial, working alongside Scrum Masters to create metric…
Advanced Topic – Innovation Accounting in SAFe
…(such as “what if” calculations), these financial metrics neither reflect nor inform the learning from incremental product development. Consequently, these traditional metrics aren’t helpful in our move to iterative, incremental…
Value Stream KPIs
…the number of KPIs tracked for each value stream. Typically, four to seven provides a good set of metrics. Often, the most meaningful metrics to assess the development value stream’s…
Government – Adopting Lean Budgeting Aligned to Development Value Streams
…of metrics and management tools to monitor program performance. Other metrics—such as feature progress charts, ART Kanban boards, burn-up charts, and continuous flow diagrams (Figure 3)—make program performance highly visible…
ART Flow
…An example of flow efficiency derived from an ART’s value stream mapping exercise Flow Metrics Summary SAFe’s Flow metrics will help highlight ART flow improvement opportunities. However, the numbers alone…