Organizing the ART

RTE · 24 questions

• Council sponsors want to label a 12-person court case-management group as an Agile Release Train so the city can claim SAFe at scale. What should the RTE explain about an effective ART?
• The fire-EMS records ART has four teams, but each team runs its own PI length and start date. What characteristic of an effective ART is missing?
• Teams on the social-services eligibility ART cannot finish a working increment without constant handoffs to an external waterfall group that sits outside the train. What should the RTE flag?
• The open-data and civic-engagement ART has no shared mission; each team serves a different unrelated sponsor. What should the RTE recommend to make the ART effective?
• Leadership staffs the fleet telematics ART with only developers and omits Product Management, System Architect/Engineering, and Business Owner representation. What should the RTE identify?
• The city permits portal ART plans together each PI but never integrates work or holds a System Demo. What pattern should the RTE correct?
• A city proposes virtual teams for the county tax-assessment ART with no collaboration tooling and no sync events. What should the RTE require?
• The municipal transit fare-system ART is being restaffed after every project charter instead of keeping long-lived teams. What characteristic of an effective ART should the RTE defend?
• Sponsors insist the public-health immunization registry ART skip architectural runway so features ship faster this PI. How should the RTE respond?
• The library consortium digital-services ART releases are unpredictable because work-in-process is unbounded and flow policies are unclear. What should the RTE establish?
• Two departments each claim the same people at 100 percent on different trains, including the parks reservation and facility ART. What staffing problem should the RTE raise?
• The wastewater SCADA modernization ART spans plants in two time zones and has a written plan for when PI Planning and ART syncs occur. What characteristic does this illustrate?
• On the 911 CAD/RMS integration ART, nobody can say who prioritizes the Program Backlog. Who holds that content authority?
• Business Owners on the school-district student-information ART are invited only to the final System Demo and never assign business value during PI Planning. What role responsibility is being skipped?
• A developer is titled System Architect on the state DMV licensing ART but never offers architectural guidance or runway items at PI Planning. What is missing?
• The city housing-voucher ART treats Product Owners and Product Management as the same job. How should the RTE distinguish the roles?
• Scrum Masters on the county elections systems ART believe their only duty is running a timer at daily standup. What should the RTE coach them to do instead?
• Executives ask who facilitates PI Planning on the municipal utilities billing ART. Who should they be told is the chief facilitator?
• Agile teams on the public works work-order ART expect the RTE to estimate their stories during PI Planning. How should the RTE respond?
• Shared services for security and UX appear on the airport operations digital ART only at release time. What should the RTE change?
• A sponsor wants to be both Business Owner and Product Manager for the entire court case-management ART but has no capacity to do either job well. What should the RTE address?
• During ART Sync on the fire-EMS records ART, only the RTE speaks for every team. What should change?
• The social-services eligibility ART has no one accountable for solution enablers that span several teams. Who should own that collaboration?
• Stakeholders ask who works with teams on Team PI Objectives business value during PI Planning on the open-data and civic-engagement ART. What is the correct pairing?