#Business Owners are a small group of stakeholders who have the primary business and technical responsibility for governance, compliance, and return on investment (ROI) for a Solution developed by an #Agile Release Train(ART). They are key stakeholders on the #ART who must evaluate fitness for use and actively participate in certain #ART events.
#Business Owners can be identified by asking the following questions:
● Who is ultimately responsible for business outcomes?
● Who can steer this #ART to develop the right Solution?
● Who can speak to the technical competence of the solution now and into the near future?
● Who should participate in planning, help eliminate impediments, and speak on behalf of development, the business, and the customer?
● Who can approve and defend a set of Program Increment (PI) plans, knowing full well that they will never satisfy everyone?
● Who can help coordinate the efforts with other departments and organizations within the Enterprise?
The answers to these questions will identify the #Business Owners, who will play a key role in helping the #ART deliver value. Among other duties, they have specific responsibilities during PI Planning, where they participate in mission setting, planning, draft plan reviews, conducting management reviews, and problem-solving. They also assign business value to Team PI Objectives and approve the PI plan. But they don’t just disappear after planning. Active and continuous involvement throughout each PI by Business Owners is a determining factor in the success of each train.
Self-managing, self-organizing #Agile Teams and #Agile Release Trains (ARTs) are essential to the success of #SAFe. This represents a significant change in the traditional management mindset. Managers no longer need to directly supervise work by assigning tasks and activities. Instead, they lead by establishing mission and Vision.
They help the teams with coaching and skills development, but largely decentralized execution authority to the members of the #ART. However, transformation to a #Lean-Agile way of working does not relieve management of their ultimate responsibilities.
They remain accountable for the growth of the organization and its people, operational excellence, and business outcomes. To facilitate this goal, #SAFe defines the responsibilitiesof #Business Owners, the key managers who guide the #ART to the appropriate outcomes.
An effective #Business Owner is an active and involved Business Owner, fulfilling #SAFe responsibilitiesdaily.
This video utilizes some parts of information from scaled agile website, for more details please visit www.scaledagileframework.com
