SAFe® 4.0 Distilled: Applying the Scaled Agile Framework® for Lean Software and Systems Engineering, First Edition

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, this is a book about SAFe and therefore the authors are deeply indebted to all those who have contributed to the development of the framework. There are over 100 books and authors who (knowingly or unknowingly) contributed to the bodies of knowledge that underlie SAFe. In addition, there are another 100 or so contributors, reviewers, commenters, editors, graphic designers, etc. that make SAFe what it is. But if we were to take time to thank all those who contributed, we wouldn’t be able to call this book “Distilled.” Fortunately, the SAFe “Contributors” page (www.scaledagileframework.com/contributors) does an honorable job of acknowledging those contributions, so we needn’t repeat that here.

However, it is ...