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    The Agile Mothership
    The Agile Mothership
    The Agile Mothership
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    The Agile Mothership

    By Jennifer B. McPherson

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    Scaling your Agile organization seems scary. The Scaled Agile Framework looks complicated, and training is expensive. The Agile Mothership is a light-hearted but serious, simplified outline for organizations hoping to move to the Scaled Agile Framework - with focus on the program level of SAFe. With details about what a program team has responsibility for within the agile organization, to how important holding that program level accountable to the delivery teams' success. Use this book to help translate some of the more complicated concepts of agile and SAFe.  The Agile Mothership uses non-software examples (like PB&J sandwich making) and other analogies to make sense of program responsibilities, the importance of great Epics / Features, the easy science of prioritization and much more.

    Chapter titles include:

    Is it REALLY a defect?

    Prioritizing: It's a science, not an art.

    Step by Step: Do Things in This Order First. Ignore Those Other Blogs.

    Enjoy some agile-inspired Haiku poetry as you read each chapter – let them become your mantra as you transform your organization.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJennifer B. McPherson
    Release dateOct 26, 2022
    ISBN9781386056393
    The Agile Mothership
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    Jennifer B. McPherson

    The author has worked within some degree of Agile since 2007 - both from the Product and IT sides, Program and Train.

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      Book preview

      The Agile Mothership - Jennifer B. McPherson

      The Agile Mothership

      Get Out of the Agile Black Hole - Use This Starlog as the Launchpad for Your Trek into SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework)

      INTRO:

      If you are reading this book, you are probably pretty familiar with Scrum Teams and Agile Software Development.  Maybe you have been agile for a while, maybe a lot of the people around you or in your department have basic Scrum / Agile 101 training, and there is a digital tool you use (like JIRA or Version One) for tracking. You currently attend a daily standup, and things are going ok. However, you sense a massive gap somewhere – things are getting lost, scope is always a surprise, you attend five different status meetings every week, yet no one is very clear on what is going on - does this sound familiar? If yes, don’t worry – there is a solution. You may have heard of Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprise, (or SAFE), and maybe even googled it.  When you pull up that www.scaledagileframework.com home page – my guess is that the homepage picture made your brain hurt.

      This book is designed to break down and simplify some of the most important parts of the Program Level of the SAFE framework (informally) and provide clarity and recommendations on what some of the very next steps would be for any organization looking to improve and scale their agile development fast. Use this as an introduction, a template, and a playbook before you commit to getting SAFe training for 100 people, and think about completing the very next steps as outlined in this book.

      This book is called ‘The Agile Mothership’ because the focus is going to be on the creation of a team a level above your existing scrum teams to act as a Mothership - to enable effective, efficient delivery of business value, protect the scrum teams from changing scope, weird deadlines, and helping to set the stage early so stuff gets done fast and with zero defects! Sound good? Great! Let’s get started.

      If you want to follow along while reading this book and try to decipher the massive image on the scaledagileframework.com home page, we will be talking specifically, only, and in detail about the Program Level.

      Table of Contents:

      The Mothership – it’s a Team!

      User Stories and EPICS / FEATURES

      Definition of Ready and Done and why this is SO important

      Phases of Scrum defined and how the phases apply to the Mothership

      Sprints and Program Increments – continuous grooming accelerated

      Prioritizing – it’s a science, not an art

      Velocity vs Capacity

      Is it really a Defect?

      Digital Agile Tools

      Step by Step: Do things in this order first. Ignore those other blogs

      Glossary – SAFe and Agile terms in layman’s terms, not academic ones

      Appendix:

      Agile Exercises and Examples

      ENJOY SOME AGILE-INSPIRED Haiku poetry as you read each chapter – let them become your mantra as you transform your organization.

      The Mothership – It’s a team!

      Program team of mine.

      You have three months to groom work.

      Please start it today.

      LET’S ALL FIRST THINK about the term Mothership. According to www.dictionary.com, Mothership, a noun, is a vessel or craft that services others operating far from a home port or center.  You may have heard the term Agile Release Train – which is basically a

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