Requires the following solutions to be installed:
- Agile Release Trains (ARTs) (edcffe31-75d3-40b8-9b16-6fbfa380466e)
- Colored and Formatted Units – Core Mashup (cb9ca2ee-8ba2-4e91-bab8-9c0ccd7199b3)
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Solution overview
The solution enables Business-Enabled Agile Release Train (ART) type.
A Business-Enabled ART is an Agile Release Train that includes the technical and business people needed to ensure the solution is aware of the business in which it operates and that it addresses the relevant concerns for the technology, business, and customer.
Agile Release Trains are purpose-built to develop and maintain the tech-enabled solutions the enterprise needs to thrive in the digital age. Naturally, most people on the ART are technologists who design, develop and integrate the software, systems, and physical components needed for state-of-the-art digitally-enabled solutions. Generally, ARTs take on one of three forms: stream-aligned, complicated subsystem, or platform ARTs, each with a specific set of responsibilities. But it is the stream-aligned ARTs that have the potential to be more fully enabled to deliver business outcomes. Embedding the critical business functions from research, marketing, business processes enablement, contracts, technical support, legal, audit, and more enables the ART to provide a ‘whole product solution’ to the customer
Enterprises utilizing Business-Enabled ARTs achieve faster time to market, improved employee engagement, higher productivity, and better business outcomes. The following considerations apply to establishing a Business-Enabled ART.
- Ensure Critical Business Functions are contained within the ART – Embed the right people and skills needed to build the whole business solution in the ART.
- Amplify Customer Centricity and product thinking – Business-Enabled ARTs deliver value directly to the customer. That requires technical and business competence.
- Focus on the intended business outcomes – Identifying the desired results for the user and the business helps provide the Objectives and focus for the ART. Utilizing this shared knowledge amplifies the effectiveness of OKRs, KPIs, and PI Objectives.
After the solution installation, you'll see a possibility to mark an ART as Business-Enabled ART using a new Type field, as well as a possibility to link Users directly to an ART. It allows include Business and Technical People in ART and see who is involved. A User can be a part of multiple ARTs.
In SAFe, ARTs operate as part of Solution Trains. When designing Solution Trains and the ARTs composing them, it can be helpful to visualize them considering ART topologies.
There are 3 types of ART topology:
- Stream-aligned ART – is just like a stream-aligned team, that will have the necessary personnel, skills, and authority to deliver value, whether it’s a complete product, service, subsystem, or whatever portion of the solution they have been tasked with. The areas of responsibility for these stream-aligned ARTs are generally the same as those for stream-aligned teams. And the same options for aligning them around a particular aspect, as covered earlier, apply here as well.
- Complicated subsystem ART – is expected when building large-scale systems to reduce the cognitive load on the stream-aligned ARTs. For example, an autonomous vehicle’s guidance system could require an entire complicated subsystem ART.
- Platform ART – provides services that the Stream-Aligned ARTs extend and build on. Continuing the autonomous vehicle example, a communication system that manages data transferred between the various subsystems would likely be represented as a Platform ART with clearly defined interfaces. One additional benefit of the platform topology is that it supports a single Platform ART that provides services across multiple development value streams within the organization.
In Targetprocess you'll see a new Topology field for ART to define its topology.
Check more details on Agile Executive Teams in Business and Technology and Organizing Agile Teams and ARTs: Team Topologies at Scale articles.
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