SAFe

 Scaled Agile Framework serves the business imperative of making organizations more agile in responding to digital disruption. The DevOps and Release on Demand competency’s focus on enabling the business to release on demand plays a key role in ensuring greater enterprise agility. It is a critical enabler for the ability to release on demand, because it helps overcome traditional misalignments across the Value Stream.

In SAFe DevOps, we also have a tool called the SAFe DevOps Health Radar. The health radar was built to help Agile Release Trains (ARTs) assess their ability to deliver continuous value to their customers. The assessment allows the ART to drill down into the 16 sub-dimensions of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline and rate their proficiency in more than 50 specific skills. After identifying gaps using the health radar, ARTs upskill in the areas that improve value flow the most and conduct periodic follow-up assessments to manage their ongoing improvement. The DevOps Health Radar is a popular, free tool that helps ARTs manage the long term evolution of their Continuous Delivery Pipelines.

Value Stream Mapping

When implementing DevOps, the problem is that even after a good action plan is created, the team is not sure how to act on it or whether the right people are even working on it. Value Stream mapping is a multifaceted tool for identifying problems with the flow of value and building a better future map and action plan. This draws clarity to where the bottlenecks lie and where the improvements are most needed.

A CALMR approach to DevOps

Approaches to implementing DevOps are diverse, without a standard playbook or central manifesto. But successful DevOps organizations do tend to have certain capabilities in common. They help inform the principles on which SAFe DevOps is based. SAFe calls these principles a CALMR approach to DevOps.

Culture

Establish a culture of shared responsibility for development, deployment, and operations.

Automation

Automate the continuous delivery pipeline.

Lean flow

Keep batch sizes small, limit WIP, and provide extreme visibility.

Measurement

Measure the flow through the pipeline. Implement application telemetry.

Recovery

Architect and enable low risk releases. Establish fast recovery, fast reversion, and fast fix-forward.

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