Satyajit Gantayat
Satyajit has broad and deep experience in Agile coaching at the strategic senior executive level wh... Read more
Satyajit has broad and deep experience in Agile coaching at the strategic senior executive level wh... Read more
In SAFe®, the Scrum Master is not just a Scrum Master. SAFe® defines the role of the Scrum Master as a servant-leader for the agile team who helps educate the team on various frameworks and methods, including Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, and SAFe®, ensuring that the agreed-upon agile process is duly followed. So, by default, it implies that Scrum Master in SAFe® needs to have more tools in the toolkit beyond just Scrum.
And since SAFe® is a framework to scale the team's agile practices up to the enterprise level there are other layers at higher levels like Essential SAFe®, Large Solution SAFe®, and Full SAFe®. These different configurations can be used as per the need of the organization.
The model is made in such a way so that it can cater to all sizes and complex environments. So, the SAFe® Scrum Masters also plays a vital role to serve in the different layers of the organization. They will need to work with the extended Scrum Master community, including Release Train Engineers and Solution Train Engineers, to increase the effectiveness of SAFe® across the enterprise Embraces SAFe® Lean-Agile Principles.
SAFe® embraces Lean and Agile principles making them very explicit. As a result, a SAFe® Scrum Master also must embrace the principles while working in the SAFe® environment.
The SAFe® Scrum Master is supposed to enable the agile team in its SAFe® adoption, and they also learn a variety of Lean techniques/tools to improve the flow of value in their agile teams.
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Explore Today!Guide the Scrum Team to include in the planning for the Program Increment sprints: product support, maintenance work, preparation work for the next program increment, planned holidays, enablers.
Guide: Understanding of the level of details in the plan: first two sprints — the Scrum Team will fill them with the user stories of the top priority features.
The user stories should meet the definition of ready (if at all the team has one) with the acceptance criteria defined, and the team estimates them.
Sprints 3–4 — fill in the program increment iterations with the user stories or features.
The last iteration is the innovation and planning sprint. Identify with the Scrum Team Dependencies — everything we need from anyone, including PO/ Architect, anyone else, including files, specifications (except the standard User stories workflow), data, etc. Identify with the Scrum Team the PI objectives and the business value.
Try to set SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Timetable. Define how you measure the objectives.
Uncommitted objectives have planned user stories and a link to the dependencies that would make them committed.
ALL uncommitted goals have at least one dependency. Guide the team on how to use the tools for preparing the draft plan.
Guide the team on how to use the various boards (team boards, program board, risk board, and retrospective board). Help the team in coordinating with other Agile Teams.
Finishing the PI: The Scrum Team is self-organized. When it comes to wrapping up the PI Planning, the Scrum Master’s role is to facilitate, to ensure that the Scrum Team does the following:
Take a lot of pictures of the planning so that you can read the post-its after. Load into your project management tool (Jira or Team Foundation Server) all the information and planning your Scrum Team did during the two days of the PI planning.
It includes allocation of the user stories per sprint, details of each user story, dependencies, actions. Schedule the meetings, and all the activities agreed upon during the PI planning, especially to treat the dependent actions with other teams.
Satyajit has broad and deep experience in Agile coaching at the strategic senior executive level while also coaching and uplifting the capability of teams and individuals. An Agile Coach and SAFe® Practice Consultant with more than 24 years of experience.
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