Guides the use of SAFe practices within the train. Coaches’ leaders, agile teams, and scrum masters in Lean-Agile practices and mindsets. Facilitates an ART’s progress to achieve commitments by building a trusting and safe environment where issues can be raised, emphasizing problem-solving. Ensures transparency of the ART’s delivery, risks, and accomplishments to other stakeholders. Tracks and reports progress of features, costs, benefits, etc., using appropriate tools (JIRA, CA Rally, or other)
Responsible for clearing program level impediments and risks and in collaboration with management finding and maintaining the right resources for the train. Manages ART ceremonies and processes, assisting the train in achieving their commitments by building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised and solved.
Facilitates all ART events, release planning, and process improvement. Facilitates quarterly program increment (PI) planning and readiness through a continuous exploration process which drives the vision, roadmap, and backlogs for pre- and post- PI planning meetings. Utilizes feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity, and partners with others to coach the program for continuous improvement to existing processes.
Supports preparation for, and facilitation of, ART meetings and processes, including agile ceremonies and quarterly release planning activities. Establishes PI calendar. Plans and facilitates the PI planning event. Aggregates team objectives into program increment objectives and publishes for visibility and transparency.
Drives ongoing efficiencies, issue and risk management, management escalation and working with other RTEs across trains. Collaborates with other RTEs for resolving conflicts prioritization conflicts and synchronizing workflows. Collaborates with impacted teams that are not following SAFe framework, and with partners external to the team (including vendor partners and other agile teams) for delivery, resolving prioritization conflicts and synchronization. Engages them with PI planning and aligns release cycle with program priority.
Provides direction to the train for handling all aspects of program planning, communications, issue resolution, cost tracking, financial planning, and reporting. In conjunction with other teams, establishes and communicates the annual calendars for iterations and program increments (PIs). Partners with senior management, business owners, product owners and other leaders to ensure the ART’s alignment with the product strategy.
Mentors and develops other scrum masters.
Leverages project management tools and skillsets, when necessary, to assure visibility and successful execution of work by the ART that may need to leverage project management frameworks.