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Enhancing Visibility in Agile Program Increment DSMs
Bajpai, Siddharth; Joglekar, Nitin; Eppinger, Steven
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Year:
2020
Editor:
Harold (Mike) Stowe; Tyson R. Browning; Steven D. Eppinger; Jakob Trauer
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Series:
DSM
Institution:
MIT; Boston University, United States of America
Section:
Organizational Architectures
Page(s):
10
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ISBN:
978-1-912254-12-5
Abstract:
Program Increments (PIs) are sequences of consecutive sprints during SAFe implementation of agile developments. SAFe work is planned at two levels of granularity: (i) stories, which create tasks (within a sprint team) and account for task interactions at a fine level of granularity; and (ii) features (often decomposed into stories), which account for interactions at a coarser level of granularity. A common practice in PI planning, involving 10-15 teams, is to suppress interactions at the story level and focus on interactions at the feature level instead. We create two DSMs for a PI planning process – one based on story interactions, and another based on feature interactions. We find a nearly 9X increase in interactions at the finer level, i.e. more granular interaction, compared to a DSM based on coarser level interaction data. We discuss theory and practice implications for using more granular DSMs during PI Planning and oversight processes.
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