Pretty Agile blog posts about QuickStart

SAFe from the Trenches @ Agile Australia

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 31, 2017

In June, Pretty Agile partnered with Scaled Agile Inc. to sponsor the 9th Agile Australia conference. Included in this sponsorship arrangement was an opportunity to deliver a product demonstration to conference attendees. Given Scaled Agile Inc. Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Australia, Agile Release Train, Agile Transformation, ART Launch, Continuous Improvement, Culture, DevOps, QuickStart, SAFe, SAFe in Government, Scaled Agile Framework, Self Selection

SAFe PI Planning Quick-Start Style

Em Campbell-Pretty - April 13, 2017

Updated 6 February 2024 to reflect SAFe 6.0 terminology.The schedule for the two-day PI Planning event, days five and six of the 6-day quick-start, was pretty much textbook SAFe. Given I have blogged about PI Planning in the past, let’s skip the Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Analytics, Agile Release Train, ART Launch, PI Planning, QuickStart, Release Train Engineer, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework

Just-in-time Training for an Agile Release Train Quick-Start

Em Campbell-Pretty - February 16, 2017

Updated 6 February 2024 to reflect SAFe 6.0 terminology. The three key ingredients in any ART launch are 1) teams, 2) a well-defined, force-ranked feature-level ART backlog and 3) the knowledge to execute in a lean and agile manner. In Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Analytics, Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Analytics Insights Agile Release Train, ART Launch, Culture, High Performance Team, QuickStart, SAFe, SAFe Training, Scaled Agile Framework

Facilitating Squadification for a SAFe Agile Release Train

Em Campbell-Pretty - January 25, 2017

Updated 6 February 2024 to reflect SAFe 6.0 terminology. The squadification day had arrived! We had management buy-in to using self-selection to create teams and a structure for our new Agile Release Train (ART). I turned up with my Time Read more...

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Tribal Unity

Tags: Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Agile Teams, Identity, QuickStart, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Scaling Culture, ScrumMastery, Self Selection, Squadification, Team Building

Preparing for Team Self-Selection with SAFe & Structuring the ART

Em Campbell-Pretty - December 14, 2016

Updated 6 February 2024 to reflect SAFe 6.0 terminologyThose who know me will not be at all surprised to learn the first thing I did once there was agreement to use self-selection was buy and read Sandy Mamoli's book Creating Great Teams: How Read more...

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SAFe Tips & Tricks

Tags: Agile Analytics, Agile Release Train, ART Launch, Chapters, Feature Owner, Product Owner, QuickStart, Release Train Engineer, RTE, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Self Selection, Squadification, Tribal Unity

The 6-Day SAFe Quick-Start with Self-Selecting Teams

Em Campbell-Pretty - November 29, 2016

Updated 6 February 2024 to reflect SAFe 6.0 terminologyFor those not familiar with the SAFe, “Quick-Start" (also known as the one-week launch) is a proven pattern for launching an Agile Release Train. A textbook Quick-Start goes something like Read more...

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SAFe Applied