What Are The Responsibilities of Business Owners As Defined In SAFe®?

 

SAFe’s success depends on the ability of teams and ART to self-organize. This agile mindset change is essential. Managers no longer must tell other people what to do. Now they just have to set a mission and vision for their team. They help teams develop coaching and skills but mostly decentralize executive power to ART members. When you adopt a Lean-Agile approach, managers will still have ultimate responsibility for the organization’s development and employees’ performance.

As a result, SAFe provides a framework for the Business Owners, the Key Management roles to ensure that the right work is being done.

 

What Do Business Owners Do In SAFe®?

 

Business owners at Portfolio Level should be a group of 3-5 stakeholders who work together to help a business achieve its vision. Their primary responsibility includes governance, management, and return on investment (ROI) of an Agile Release Train (ART). These ART stakeholders will help to identify suitable ART events and actively participate in them.

 

Responsibilities of Business Owners

 

The following describes the SAFe® assigned responsibilities to the Business Owners in incremental execution of PI (Program Increment) events.

(1) Before PI Planning

 

Business Owners have a crucial play in pre-PI Planning events:

·       Provide information on outstanding improvement actions

·       Take part in pre-PI planning if needed

·       Understand and help ensure business goals are understood and approved by key train stakeholders including System Architects, Release Train Engineer (RTE), and Product Management.

·       Be prepared to communicate in a business context, including guidelines and key external dependencies.

 

(2) During PI Planning

 

·       Specify the appropriate business context items in the defined PI scheduling calendar.

·       Play a key role in reviewing a project plan, and understanding how these plans together meet the current business vision.

·       Be aware of important external dependencies, and commitments.

 

(3) Assign Business Values

 

This, in PI planning, creates the necessary communication between the team and key business owners. It is an opportunity to build personal relationships between business owners and agile teams, identify common problems that require mutual commitment, and better understand business values & goals.

 

(4) During The Execution Of PI

 

·       Take an active part in maintaining business coherence and development as priorities and opportunities predictably change

·       Ensure that the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is well-defined and encourages decision-making based on the MVPs delivery.

·       Attend iteration planning sessions with an agile team and iteration retrospectives as needed

·       Participate in release management and focus on scope, quality, release, market aspects, and deployment options.

 

(5) At Inspect & Adapt (I &A)

 

This event is a broader, time-based opportunity for all ART employees to reflect on progress together and identify the systemic barriers they grapple with, many of which cannot be removed without the involvement of Business Owners (BO). During the event, BO help evaluate the achieved value against the plan and then take part in problem-solving programs.

 

Other Additional Duties

 

1.      Participate in the planning of the solution train before and after PI and assist in adapting ART PI plans as needed.

2.      Become an Epic Owner and lead business initiatives.

3.      Involve in the Solution Demo and provide feedback on the capabilities and subsystems that ART will create.

4.      Be proactive in removing obstacles, especially those beyond the control of key ART stakeholders.

5.      Help encourage investment in CDP (Continuous Delivery Pipeline) to improve the responsiveness of ART and the quality of the solution.

6.      Sometimes involved in Product, LPM (Lean Portfolio Management), and system architecture.

7.      Help break down silos to align development and operations to create a shared ownership culture in DevOps.

 

To learn and gain knowledge on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), values and understand the roles better by enrolling in the SAFe Training.

 

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