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To counter the market competition, the long tail of support systems needs to be in shape, which requires continues continuous upgrades. The technical perspective, such as Life Cycle Management, security, and system integration, give many reasons why produces specific reasons for maintaining existing systems must be invested in. Unfortunately, the structural and cultural view of working procedures is a significantly more complex scope than the technical one. It involves the thinking of a company's product offering . To change a system because of changing product offerings is much more complex and involves structures and the tacit knowledge any organization has built up.
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If you have been involved in an Agile transformation, you have likely seen the struggle to deliver working Features within a short period. It can be hard enough for an Agile Release Train to finalize Features within a Program Increment. But, in a sizeable Lean-Agile organization, the ability to quickly deliver working Features across several domains in multiple Release Trains is needed to accomplish Cadence and Sync.
There is To develop a Feature, the is always an end-to-end flow for any Feature. From the starting point of development to the delivery starting at a trigger and ending with to delivery, where value may be utilized. There may be islands in the flow where mature Agile teams do an excellent job. But as long as the teams cannot observe and influence the entire end-to-end flow, teams will lose the context of their delivery.
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