Six SAFe Practices for S-Sized Teams

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By Juha-Markus Aalto, Director Product Development, Qentinel Group

SAFe has been designed to tackle the challenges of ‘M to XXL’ (medium to extra, extra large-sized) programs. Such programs consist of several Agile teams with approximately 50–100 people, or even as many as hundreds or thousands of practitioners.

Are Scrum and Kanban Enough?

But what about ‘S-sized’ (small) development organizations with just one or a few teams? Is there anything in SAFe for them—or are Scrum and Kanban just enough? The answer, of course, is it depends. Read on to find out what those things are.

If a pure software team mainly ...

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