Agile Release Train : Essential SAFe Terms - 2 of 7

These seven videos on Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) help you develop the first-level understanding, which can significantly increase your training effectiveness. So watch them before you attend your training class.
#2 - Agile Release Train
Agile Release Train (ART) can be considered a collection of multiple agile teams , say 5 to 12 agile teams. This group of agile teams is aligned with the common backlog called Program Backlog and has a common leadership group. Agile Release Train (ART) is a team of agile teams, unlike projects where you may start thinking that we have an idea and we form a team, in SAFe we have a long-lived group of agile teams, and they keep taking new initiatives as and when such initiatives arise.
#1 - Agile Teams : • Agile Teams : Essentia...
#2 - Agile Release Train : • Agile Release Train : ...
#3 -Program Increment (PI) and Iterations : • PI and Iterations : Es...
#4 - Program Backlog - • Program Backlog : Esse...
#5 - Program Increment (PI) Planning Meeting : • PI Planning Meeting : ...
#6 - Team Backlog : • Team Backlog : Essenti...
#7- Innovation and Planning (I&P) Iteration : • Innovation and Plannin...
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Good evening Sir, Excellent videos. I do have a question for you. My organization embraced SAFe framework about 2 years ago; however, there is a lot of confusion. Q1: The organization a Headquarter; therefore their mission is to provide oversight policies in cybersecurity, CIO and Networks. There is no development work other than approving policies, creating reports and oversight implementation plan done by sub organizations. Therefore; is SAFe applicable to such organization? Q2: There is only Mission statement; however there is no vision. There is no portfolio backlog, program backlog etc. The leadership has asked to do bottom up approach. What are the steps I can take to coach them? Q3: The leadership has also adopted OKRs approach; however, there is no strategic theme defined. What is the proper way of implementing OKRs? Q4: Need guidance on the hierarchy level. How can we construct it? My thought for hierarchy level are as follows: Theme-> Initiative (multi year-portfolio backlog)->Epic(Annual-program backlog) Feature(PI)-> user story (Iteration-4 weeks)-> task. Is this correct? Leadership wants the OKRs build. Where may fit them in this structure? Sorry for laundry list of questions. I was a bit hesitant to ask. Appreciate your input.

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Great overview. Fwiw, I prefer the term "long-term" to "long-lived" (which is a rarely used term in day-to-day speak ... nowhere near as common as "short-lived"). I know it's used in the official SAFe documentation, and all the SAFe experts use it, but outside that nobody uses it and I even found it vague and confusing when I first encountered it.

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Question: How to decide which team require SAFe ART and which team require Scrum?

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Hi Sir, Is SAFe Scrum master really a success in Indian context, does this position has requirement in India? Please answer. Have companies successfully transitioned to SAFe...

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Hi Saket, I am really interested in getting enrolled in your next batch for Safe Essential Training, and till it starts I am going through this series on Safe Essential. One key question I am hoping to get the answer for is that if we have multiple products that are not connected to each other(hence the business outcome is different for different teams, is true that there is no advantage of going Scaled Agile in that case? )

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Hello sir, what is scrum of scrum event? what is the role of Scrum master in this event? Kindly answer 🙏

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