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I was recently asked to help facilitate and to act as coach at a multi-day kick-off event for a new Agile Release Train (ART). The agenda initially looked a lot like that of the SAFe Program Increment (PI) Planning event, but there were immediate differences, the main one being a restricted attendee list due to ongoing team recruitment. The people in the room consisted largely of the SAFe Program level: Release Train Engineer (RTE), Product Management, Product Owner, Architecture, and a few Subject Matter Experts...

Key takeaways in article: *What issues can SEMAT help address within an organisation. *What is the best way to train people in the use of SEMAT so that its understood and used. *Why are the SEMAT cards important? *How can SEMAT be applied to the Enterprise, Programmes and Projects. *How can the use of SEMAT be scaled out across your organisation.

The Development Support Essentials Practice helps automate and operate environments in support of development teams to optimize the development process.

Development Support Essentials practice provides guidance to improve the development environment to enable faster delivery. This includes continuous integration, automated testing and deployment automation environments and tools.

The DevOps Essentials practice provides guidance to smooth the transition from development to release and increase feedback from operations back to development.