Chapter 4
Joining the Big Leagues with the Scaled Agile Framework
IN THIS CHAPTER
Choosing which SAFe configuration fits your organization
Seeing how SAFe aligns your team with management
Mapping your team’s work to solution trains
Focusing on delivering value with agile release trains
Delivering a product with multiple agile teams
The Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) is a modular, scalable system for orchestrating alignment, collaboration, and delivery for large numbers of agile teams. It got its start when Dean Leffingwell and his collaborators (now known as Scaled Agile, Inc.) began looking at how some of the largest organizations deliver software. What they found was a mix of Lean thinking, agile practices, and traditional top-down decision-making. The Scaled Agile team then consolidated and distilled these common practices to form SAFe.
In this chapter, I introduce you to SAFe in principle and in practice. I bring you up to speed on the SAFe framework and principles, offer guidance ...
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