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#PORTFOLIO EPIC DEFINITION FULL#
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Willy-Peter Schaub is a former program manager with the Visual Studio ALM Rangers at the Microsoft Canada Development Center.

#PORTFOLIO EPIC DEFINITION PROFESSIONAL#

Hosam Kamel is a technology solution professional for Microsoft and ALM Ranger.

Phillip Eng is a Senior Architect at Microsoft, Digital Pursuit and Guidance.

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Scaling Agile and SAFe® Metrics with TFS: Blog post that illustrates a SQL Server report developed by InCycle to illustrate how TFS can be used to support scaled agile or SAFe.

Scaled Agile Framework: SAFe® resource site.

About Sprints, Scrum and project management.

How SAFe® concepts map to Azure Boards artifacts Related articles Choose the link to learn about implementation details. The following table maps SAFe® terms or artifacts to the equivalent Azure Boards term or artifact.

#PORTFOLIO EPIC DEFINITION FULL#

Full SAFe®įull SAFe® includes the three levels of Essential SAFe®, Large Solution SAFe®, and Portfolio SAFe®. However, you can also add custom work item types and custom backlogs to support other solution requirements. You can implement large solutions in much the same way as you implement Portfolio SAFe®. Large Solutions SAFe® includes support for a Solution Backlog, Solution Trains, and Capabilities. Power BI and the Analytics service provide support to create custom reports quickly.

KPIs: Several reports and dashboard widgets provide out-of-the box metrics.

Lean budgets: Budget information can be captured in custom fields and rolled up to gain visibility to the Feature and Epic levels.

Value Streams: Value streams can be tracked using tags or custom fields.

Portfolio Vision and Strategic Themes: Business owners and portfolio managers can use the built-in project wiki to share their vision, objectives, and goals.

Portfolio backlogs: Implemented as a portfolio backlog that supports filtering of work based on review of business needs.

Epics: Map to the Epic work item type and allow tracking, grouping, and rollup of child items.

Portfolio SAFe® adds support for managing portfolios through epics, enablers, and value streams.Īzure Boards provides supports for the following portfolio components: PI Objectives, Team Goals, and Solution context: Teams can use the built-in project wiki to share objectives, goals, customer information, and solution requirements.įor an overview of how Azure Boards implements Scrum and Kanban, see About Sprints, Scrum, and project management and About Boards and Kanban.Agile Release Train: Implemented by a set of Agile teams and Program teams configured to support specific team and program views.Iterations, Innovation and Planning (IP) Iteration, Program Increments (PI), Milestones, and Release Trains: Implemented via a flat-list or a hierarchical configuration of Iteration Paths.Scrum and Kanban: Practices that are fully supported using Kanban boards, Sprint backlogs and Taskboards, teams, and sprint cadences.Team Backlogs and Program Backlogs: Implemented as team backlogs that filter work items assigned to a team and support prioritizing and grouping of work.

These work items automatically appear on team backlogs and Kanban boards. Stories, Features, and Enablers: Implemented as work items that capture information and status of work.Some of the ways Azure Boards supports business agility and agile culture are discussed in the following articles:Įssential SAFe® requires support for the artifacts and practices illustrated in the following poster.Īll of these artifacts and practices are supported by Azure Boards. Many SAFe® practices include growing a culture that supports agility, alignment, and autonomy, all while being customer-centric. SAFe® and Scaled Agile Framework are registered trademarks of Scaled Agile Inc. Reproduced with permission from © 2011-2020 Scaled Agile Inc. Furthermore, the portfolio backlog can track deliverables that map to value streams and associated budgets. Teams work on these items in Sprints and deliver through Program Increments (PIs) and Release Trains. This framework breaks down Epics into Features and Stories. The SAFe® addresses how a portfolio vision is met by a hierarchy of teams, all concerned with specific goals. However, some of the features and procedures are specific to the cloud or the latest version of Azure DevOps Server. Most of the guidance is valid for both the cloud and on-premises versions. This article is one of a set of Scaled Agile Framework® tutorials that applies to Azure Boards and Azure DevOps Services.