As part of Give Thanks to Scrum's 2016 theme of "Scrum as a foundation for Agile Scaling approaches" Yuval Yeret and Dan Mezick explore how Scrum is a foundational piece of the Scaled Agile Framework(tm) and what is required in order to scale not just Scrum's practices but also its DNA and how SAFe approaches this challenge.

1. Scrum as a foundational piece of the
Scaled Agile Framework™ (SAFe)
Give Thanks to Scrum 2016
Dan Mezick + Yuval Yeret

2. http://www.scaledagileframework.com/

3. Scrum – A foundational piece
of SAFe’s Team Level
http://www.scaledagileframework.com/first-things-first-essential-safe/

4. Program Backlog
PI Planning
PI Objectives
PI Inspect & Adapt ART Sync
System Demo
Program
Increment
1 Agile
Release Train
- A foundational piece for
SAFe’s Program Level
Scrum Framework - https://www.scrum.org/

6. The Agile Theater
Starring Scrum, The Scrum Master,
Product Owner, Agile Team, The Sprint.
Guest Appearance – The Waterfall
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7. What do you get when you scale
an Agile Theater?

8. The SAFe Theater
Starring the Managers-Only PI Planning,
The Command & Control RTE,
w/ special guest - Waterfall Thinking
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9. We need to scale Scrum DNA, not just
Scrum practices

10. Embrace Lean-Agile values
House of Lean
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan
Agile Manifesto
LEADERSHIP
Respectfor
peopleandculture
Flow
Innovation
Relentless
improvement
VALUE
Value in the sustainably
shortest lead time
That is, while there is value in the items on the
right, we value the items on the left more.
We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and
helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:

11. SAFe is getting us face time to discuss Lean/Agile
principles and practices with Leaders
LEADERSHIP
Respectfor
peopleandculture
Flow
Innovation
Relentless
improvement
VALUE

13. So what now?
Use Real/Genuine Scrum DNA +
Lean/Agile Principles + Leadership to
SAFely scale agile
Yuval@AgileSparks.com
@YuvalYeret
Dan@NewTechUsa.net
@DanielMezick