Together with my colleague Nadine, I presented an updated version of our participatory budgeting approach. We had already shared the first version at a previous event, but since then we made significant changes that we wanted to share. A quick disclaimer: we did not invent participatory budgeting. We built on the materials from the SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework), so you will find the copyright on the relevant slides. If you want to introduce participatory budgeting in your own organization, we are happy to share our experience and always reference the original SAFe materials.
In this article, I explain what Continuous Deployment is within the SAFe® DevOps Health Radar and why it is essential for delivering value quickly and safely. Please note that everything discussed here is under the license of Scaled Agile, and that the Scaled Agile Framework is a framework to be used as a toolbox. Take out of this toolbox what fits your needs and what solves your problems.
How do you proactively detect and fix production issues before they cause a business disruption? Respond is the SAFe DevOps Health Radar activity that answers exactly this question. In this video, I walk through what Respond involves and why it is essential for maintaining a stable production environment.
Once our features are deployed and verified in production, we need to keep a close eye on how they perform. Monitor is the SAFe DevOps Health Radar activity that focuses on tracking system performance, end-user behavior, incidents, and business value. In this video, I walk through what monitoring involves and why it is essential for making the right decisions about your features.
In this article, we will explore what exactly SAFe® DevOps is for health radar and what can you use it for.
Verify is a critical step in the SAFe for DevOps Health Radar. After deploying our package into the production environment, we need to confirm that the new functionality works correctly and does not negatively affect the integrity or robustness of the existing system. Only after this verification is complete can we confidently release the new features to end-users. In this video, I walk through what the Verify step involves and how it fits into the overall continuous delivery pipeline.
Many organizations still rely on annual planning cycles with large upfront budgets, waterfall-style gate reviews, and business cases that are written solely to secure funding. The result is often a massive overload of initiatives, poor quality, delayed projects, and a fundamental disconnect between output and actual business impact. In this talk, my colleague and I share how we introduced Lean Portfolio Management at Zühlke Engineering, what we achieved in our first MVP after six months, and where we plan to go next.
How can strategy be translated into execution in a transparent, lean, and scalable way?
What This Talk Covers # In this session, we share how Zühlke introduced Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) based on SAFe and adapted it to the organizational context. We show how we built an MVP for LPM by combining a portfolio kanban, transparent epic and roadmap management, and group-wide OKRs to improve strategic alignment and decision-making.
Deploy is a critical step in the SAFe for DevOps Health Radar. After we have built a deployable package and tested it in a staging environment, we now want to continuously deploy our changes into the production environment. The goal is to deploy with high frequency and low risk. In this video, I explain how we achieve this and what practices enable continuous deployment.
This is the English-language version of our talk on participatory budgeting at Zühlke. Nadine Broghammer and I describe how we coached a portfolio team through a participatory budgeting (PB) event based on SAFe, and how the value stream leads collectively allocated the budget for the second half of the year. A separate post covers the German version of the same talk.
Stage is the step in the SAFe for DevOps Health Radar where we perform the final validation before going to production. In the staging environment, we run user acceptance tests, conduct system demos for our stakeholders, and verify that everything is truly production-ready. In this video, I walk through what the Stage step involves and why it is essential for a reliable delivery pipeline.
In this article, I explain what Test End to End means within the SAFe® DevOps Health Radar and why it is essential for delivering high-quality software. Please note that everything discussed here is under the license of Scaled Agile, and that the Scaled Agile Framework is a framework to be used as a toolbox. Take out what fits your needs or what solves your problem.
