Free Scaled Agile Framework® Webinar Series! We’re excited to announce a new, completely free upcoming webinar series to help guide you on writing better Epics, Features, and User Stories in SAFe®:
- Webinar 1 - Writing Better Epics in SAFe - Jul 11, 2024 05:00 PM CET - Brian Tucker.
Details and Video Replay Here - Webinar 2 - Writing Better SAFe Features - Aug 1, 2024 05:00 PM CET - Brian Tucker.
Details and Video Replay Here - Webinar 3 - Writing Better SAFe User Stories - Aug 8, 2024 05:00 PM CET - Keith de Mendonca. Details and Video Replay Here
Webinar Provenance
The webinar themes and content were inspired by the new blog, ‘What Makes A Good Epic’ which in turn was inspired by our expert consultants working with countless teams to help them make a transformational change to the SAFe way of working. Our world-class trainers also face a myriad of questions from students as they undertake SAFe training courses, so the skill to explain using real-world examples and relatable metaphors naturally finds its way into blog texts to help bring the subjects to life to help people use the concepts to power their development endeavours. There is a synopsis of each webinar below. Please share this page widely, the more the merrier!
Writing Better Epics in SAFe
In agile development, an epic is just that – a large endeavour which should deliver its customers and stakeholders a large amount of business value, and one which will take a long time to complete. The business world demands fast results and agility in delivery. But it is still too easy to fall into a number of classic traps when writing and managing epics that will each destroy agility and disappoint the business and its customers. In this webinar we describe how you can get started faster, build agility into your execution, and will identify some organisational traps you can side-step in order to delight your customers and your business stakeholders.
Writing Better SAFe Features
A single backlog of work shared by many people focuses and aligns their work towards the most important work items. In SAFe, an ART Backlog of Features is used to align the work of multiple teams in the ART to the most important work items. However there are many pitfalls that must be avoided when writing Features for the ART backlog. Bad Features will result in poor work throughput, unaligned and disempowered teams. In this webinar we describe some of the strategies you can follow when writing Features to encourage agility as well as improve productivity.
Writing Better SAFe User Stories
Stories, or User Stories, are a common way to express each backlog item for a single team to complete within one Iteration or Sprint. Lots has been written over the years about how to write good stories; so why are so many stories still bad? In this webinar we describe where the user story concept came from, the true purpose of stories and explain ways that teams can avoid falling into the trap of doing work rather than delivering value. We describe how in SAFe the purpose of stories can be different to other agile development practices, since SAFe describes a Feature as being a releasable item, not an individual story. And we explain strategies to slice a SAFe Feature into stories.
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