A manager on the public works work-order ART pushes one team to maximize local story velocity even though that starves the integrated release of testers and environments. What principle should the RTE apply?
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Short Explanation
A work-order ART is a relay, not a set of solo sprints. If one team runs a record split while the testers have no baton, the city still has no release.
Full Explanation
SAFe systems thinking tells the RTE to optimize the ART as a whole. Local velocity that starves integration, testing, or environments is suboptimization. Effective RTEs make the integrated outcome the success signal and coach managers off team-level scoreboards that hide bottlenecks. Ranking, freezing others, or hiding integration health from council all make the local metric worse for the system.