SAFe Assessment Collection
SAFe DevOps Assessment
by SAFe
The SAFe DevOps Assessment empowers Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Solution Trains to evaluate and optimize their continuous delivery pipeline. By measuring the maturity of the four key aspects—Continuous Exploration, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Release on Demand—this assessment provides a comprehensive view of your DevOps practices, helping teams enhance their ability to deliver high-quality, valuable features faster and more reliably.
Andrew Sales
Chief Methodologist and SAFe Fellow,
Scaled Agility, Inc.
Dean Leffingwell
Co-founder and Chief Methodologist
Scaled Agility, Inc.
How Does It Work?
The assessment includes a series of statements that teams evaluate based on current capabilities in Continuous Exploration, Integration, Deployment, and Release on Demand. This structured approach helps organizations pinpoint areas of strength and opportunities for improvement, providing a roadmap for DevOps excellence.
Core Benefits of the SAFe DevOps Assessment
Why Choose the SAFe DevOps Assessment?
Continuous Exploration
Assess your team's ability to translate business ideas into actionable hypotheses and Minimum Marketable Features (MMFs) that align with customer needs and business objectives.
Optimize Value Delivery
The assessment provides actionable insights for improving DevOps maturity, helping teams streamline value delivery from exploration to release.
Continuous Integration
Evaluate your team's efficiency in implementing and testing features, ensuring seamless, end-to-end validation in production-like environments.
Enhance Reliability and Responsiveness
By measuring key capabilities in continuous integration, deployment, and release, the assessment supports teams in creating more reliable and adaptable value streams.
Continuous Deployment
Measure the team's capability to deploy features continuously, leveraging feature toggles, monitoring, and rollback mechanisms for optimal deployment control.
Empower Data-Driven Decisions
With a focus on empirical performance data, the SAFe DevOps Assessment guides teams in making strategic, pivot-or-persevere decisions to continuously refine their pipeline.
Release on Demand
Understand the team's ability to release features to users on demand, ensuring stability, security, and the ability to make data-driven strategic decisions.
Sample Questions
Continuous Exploration
Rate your team's ability to translate business ideas into hypothesis statements that are clear and measurable.
Continuous Exploration
Evaluate your team's collaboration with business and technology experts to define Minimum Marketable Features (MMFs).
Continuous Exploration
Assess the effectiveness of synthesizing exploration activities into a well-prioritized ART Backlog.
Continuous Integration
Rate your team's ability to define and implement Stories quickly and reliably.
Continuous Integration
Evaluate the team's capacity for continuous testing in production-like environments.
Continuous Deployment
Measure the team's effectiveness at deploying features to production and controlling visibility with feature toggles.
Continuous Deployment
Rate the team's ability to monitor the solution stack and analyze feature value based on real-time events.
Release on Demand
Assess the team's ability to release features to users on demand with blue/green deployments, canary releases, and other techniques.
Release on Demand
Rate the team's ability to collect and analyze data on feature value to inform strategic decisions.