Tag: Framework

Spanning Palette | Glossary

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Definition:

SAFe framework has a grey bar represented on the left hand side of framework with icons on it representing Spanning Palette. It holds the elements which can be applied or configured across levels. The Spanning Palette contains various roles and artefacts that may be applicable to a specific team, program, large solution or portfolio context.

The elements represented in spanning palette are Vision, System Team, Lean UX, Metrics, Shared Services, CoP, Milestones, Roadmap. This displays a key element of SAFe’s flexibility and configurability. The spanning palette permits organisations to apply only the elements needed for their configuration.

Further Reading:

https://www.scaledagileframework.com/whats-new-in-safe-45/

Economic Framework | Glossary

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Definition:

“The measure of execution in product development is our ability to constantly align our plans to whatever is, at the moment, the best economic choice”

-Donald Reinertsen

The Economic Framework is a set of decision rules that align everyone to the financial objectives of the solution and guides the economic decision-making process. SAFe Lean Agile Principle states – Take an economic view highlights the key role of economics in successful solution development. The primary purpose of the economic framework is to support effective, fast decision making within the bounds of larger economic picture, which requires understanding of the rules for decision-making, the current local context and relevant decision-making authority.

Lean Budgets, Epic funding and governance, decentralized decision-making, and job sequencing based on the Cost of Delay (CoD) are SAFe constructs for economic decision-making.

Further Reading:

Book: The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald Reinertsen
https://www.scaledagileframework.com/economic-framework/