Pretty Agile blog posts about Squadification

Self-Selection: A SAFe Approach to Forming Agile Release Trains

Em Campbell-Pretty - October 03, 2018

Presentation at the Global SAFe Summit 2019 in San Deigo. When shaping agile teams, many organisations use a leader decides model. The design of the teams is often a very delicate balancing act. Skills, experience, subject matter expertise Read more...

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Tags: Agile Release Train, Analytics Insights Agile Release Train, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Self Selection, Squadification

Learning from Re-Squadification

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 17, 2017

One of the things I love about the A&I Agile Release Train is their drive to learn. Following the Re-Squadification day the train held a focused retrospective in order to understand what had gone wrong and how they could avoid a reoccurrence of Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Release Train, Analytics Insights Agile Release Train, Autonomy, Chapters, Collaboration, Culture, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Scaling Culture, Self Selection, Spotify, Squadification

Re-squadification

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 03, 2017

Three PIs after the 6-Day Quick-Start it was time to “re-squadify”. We had promised the teams during the initial self-selection event that they were not making life long commitments and that they would again have the opportunity to self-select Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile, Agile Release Train, Analytics Insights Agile Release Train, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Self Selection, Squadification

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