How Healthy is Your Product? - Delivery Pipeline Check

You are developing your product using agile and lean approaches. 

How can you check your approach and distill improvements? A health check of your product and your development approach is certainly a good solution.

This post is the second of a set of articles identifying health checks with different focus. We will identify strengths, potential weaknesses and hopefully find room for improvement.

How you build and deliver your software product has direct implication on your liquidity and cashflow. Improvements in your delivery pipeline have direct impact on your finances.

SAFE 4.6: Improvements Direly Needed

It is official. The power engine of SAFe 4.6 vehicle is Team and Technical Agility. View the official presentation and more important download the slides.  It is one of their five Lean Enterprise competencies and one of their four core values. SAFe finally recognizes the tremendous importance of technical proficiency and craftsmanship.

They advocate two findings. First you need team agility, how you apply Scrum or Kanban. In other words being agile instead of doing agile. Second you need technical agility, how you develop a quality product.

I challenge you. If you are following SAFe, talk with your teams and checks how many of their official good practices are you using on a daily basis.