Team and Technical Agility focuses on the technical aspects of the solution within the context of a high-performing Agile Team. It emphasizes the need for the teams to have a strong technical foundation and the ability to deliver high-quality, reliable solutions for their customers:
• Agile Teams: An Agile Team is the collective capabilities, skills, and behaviors of the cross-functional teams that are responsible for executing the work and delivering value within an Agile organization. Agile Teams are at the heart of SAFe® and play a crucial role in driving the success of Agile implementations. • Team of Agile Teams: Agile Teams operate in the context of a SAFe® Agile Release Train (ART). It is a long-lived, self-organizing team of Agile Teams that work together to define, build, and deliver value in the form of solutions. The ART aligns the efforts of multiple Agile Teams towards a common mission and is the primary value delivery mechanism in SAFe®. • Built-in Quality: All Agile Teams have the necessary technical practices in place to produce solutions that are reliable, maintainable, and scalable.
Agile Product Delivery (APD)
Agile Product Delivery focuses on the practices and techniques needed to continuously deliver valuable, high-quality solutions. APD ensures that teams can quickly and reliably release products and services in increments to customers and gather feedback for iterative improvement:
• Customer Centricity and Design Thinking: Emphasizes the importance of
understanding customer needs, delivering value, and leveraging design thinking principles to create customer-centric solutions. • Develop on Cadence, Release on Demand: Focuses on achieving a balance between predictable, timeboxed development cycles (cadence) and the flexibility to release software solutions when needed (on-demand). This competency helps organizations establish a rhythm for development while enabling frequent and timely delivery of value to customers. • DevOps and the Continuous Delivery Pipeline: Emphasizes the integration of development (Dev) and Operations (Ops) practices to enable faster and more frequent releases. It includes continuous exploration, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. DevOps and Continuous Delivery Pipeline allow the deployment of solutions into production quickly and reliably, reducing time-to-market and improving feedback loops.
