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The document discusses accelerating the flow of value through focusing on eight properties of a flow-based system: 1) Visualizing and limiting work-in-process, 2) Addressing bottlenecks, 3) Minimizing handoffs and dependencies, 4) Getting faster feedback, 5) Working in smaller batches, 6) Reducing queue length, 7) Optimizing time spent "in the zone", and 8) Remediating legacy policies and practices that inhibit flow. The document provides discussion and questions to consider for each property to help optimize flow and continuously deliver value.

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SAFe - Flow - Presentation

The document discusses accelerating the flow of value through focusing on eight properties of a flow-based system: 1) Visualizing and limiting work-in-process, 2) Addressing bottlenecks, 3) Minimizing handoffs and dependencies, 4) Getting faster feedback, 5) Working in smaller batches, 6) Reducing queue length, 7) Optimizing time spent "in the zone", and 8) Remediating legacy policies and practices that inhibit flow. The document provides discussion and questions to consider for each property to help optimize flow and continuously deliver value.

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Accelerating the Flow of Value

with SAFe ®

Dean Leffingwell
Creator of SAFe and Chief Methodologist

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Agile is such a critical, desirable, elusive,
and yet intangible state.

Perhaps it’s more productive to focus on


delivering a continuous flow of value than
debate the question of whether “I, and my
team, are Agile or not?”

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“To enable fast and predictable lead times
in any value stream, there is usually a
relentless focus on creating a smooth and
even flow of work.”
 —Gene Kim et al., The DevOps Handbook

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Eight properties of a flow-based system

6
1. Work-in-Process
4 (WIP)
2. Bottleneck
8 3. Hand-off
4. Feedback
5. Batch
3 5
2
7 6. Queue
7. Worker
8. Policies
-4-
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#1
Visualize and
Limit WIP
#1 Visualize and Limit WIP

This is not a new principle, and yet…

Think about:
Portfolio
Funnel Review Analyzing Backlog Implementing Done
→ Are you visualizing the WIP
you need to visualize?

→ How do you react to it?

→ How is this different at Portfolio Kanban


different levels?

→ Where is it most critical?

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#2
Address
Bottlenecks
#2 Address Bottlenecks

Bottlenecks occur wherever demand is greater than capacity.


Bottlenecks cause the system to operate below its potential capacity.

Think about:

→ Do you know where the bottlenecks are?

→ Do you know how to find them?

→ Do you know what to do about them when you do?


© Scaled Agile, Inc. -8-
#3
Minimize
Handoffs and
Dependencies
#3 Minimize Handoffs and Dependencies

We all know excessive handoffs cause


waste, delays, and rework, slooowww
value delivery, and lost opportunities.

Think about:

→ Have you applied team topologies yet?

→ Do you think “T Skills” every time you


see this?

→ Is it time to restructure your Teams,


ARTs, or Value Streams?
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#4
Get Faster
Feedback
#4 Get Faster Feedback

We need both technical and


customer feedback and we
need it earlier, and more often
than we think.

Think about:
→ How do you get this feedback
now?
Faster feedback may well ‘save the day’
→ Is it early enough? on your initiative

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#5
Work in
Smaller
Batches
#5 Work in Smaller Batches

If you want to:


→ Get faster feedback
→ Reduce the load on bottlenecks “Batch size reduction
→ Reduce variability
→ Reduce overhead
saves much more
→ Increase efficiency than you think.”
→ Increase motivation and urgency
—Don Reinertsen
→ Reduce schedule cost and growth The Principles of Product
Development Flow

Then work in smaller batches!

© Scaled Agile, Inc. - 14 -


#6
Reduce
Queue Length
#6 Reduce Queue Length

The longer the queue, the longer the


wait for cool new stuff, regardless of
the team’s size or efficiency.

Think about:

→ Can you see the queues?

→ How do you control queue length?

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#7
Optimize Time
‘In the Zone’
Do your people work like this?

Time ‘in the zone’


is often a fraction
of the total
workday

30%
of work day
spent in zone

2.4 hrs
(time in zone)

8 hrs
(full day)
- 18 -

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#7 Optimize Time ‘In the Zone’

People in the zone demonstrate


higher creativity, productivity, “Being ‘in the zone’ is an
happiness, and fulfillment. engaged mental state of
extreme focus. The work
Think about:
feels effortless and time
→ What can you do to passes quickly.”
better optimize time in
the zone for —Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
knowledge workers? Flow, The Psychology of Optimal
Experience

© Scaled Agile, Inc. - 19 -


#8
Remediate Legacy
Policies and
Practices
#8 Remediate Legacy Policies and Practices

Enterprises are often replete with


legacy policies and practices that
inhibit flow.

Look at the maze on the right.

→ Do you recognize any?

→ Do you have others?

→ What can you do to remediate?


The maze of legacy policies and practices
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Next steps
→ Read the new Flow article series at
scaledagileframework.com
→ Tune your team for flow

→ Apply the accelerators

→ Deliver value continuously

→ Have fun!

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