Identify Value Streams and ARTs
Break down barriers between departments.
—W. Edwards Deming
With a sense of urgency for change and a powerful coalition of informed and dedicated people in place, it’s now time to implement SAFe. In this chapter, we describe the next critical move: Identify Value Streams and Agile Release Trains (ARTs). If you think of them as the organizational backbone of a SAFe initiative, you will understand their importance to this journey. Attempting to shortcut or breeze through this step would be the same as putting your foot on the brake at the same time you are trying to accelerate. But get this one right, and you’ll be ...
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