The Effective RTE: 10 key skills for every Release Train Engineer
How to effectively facilitate the flow of value
Last week I visited the SAFe Summit in Washington and delivered my presentation about the RTE role in SAFe.
In the presentation I called out what I have observed to be 10 critical skills (actually nine..) that every RTE need to build and master:
- Practical empathy
- Courage to stay authentic
- Ability to narrate complex situations
- Establish and manage cadence and synchronization
- Apply systems thinking
- Understand the physics of flow and queuing theory
- Showmanship and large group facilitation
- Effective stakeholder management
- Ability to simplify things ..
Here is a video of the presentation at the 2018 SAFe Summit:
Here is a link to the presentation:
https://www.slideshare.net/cvikman/the-effective-rte-10-key-skills-for-every-release-train-engineer
If you are interested in learning more about the role of the RTE or lean/agile/SAFe in general, I am teaching three SAFe trainings in Stockholm, Sweden during 2018:
- Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer: https://bestbrainsacademy.com/course/safe-release-train-engineer-rte-stockholm/
- SAFe for leaders (Leading SAFe): https://bestbrainsacademy.com/course/leading_safe_stockholm_3days/
- Implementing SAFe (SPC): https://bestbrainsacademy.com/course/safe_spc4_stockholm_december2018/
