“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”. Albert Einstein. Summary SAFe is an agile delivery system for enterprise-scale software development. It is designed to address the limitations of single team-based delivery. In this introduction we discuss: Problems solved by SAFe SAFe framework overview How to implement SAFe Introduction: Why SAFe?…
“Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things” – Steve Jobs Portfolio Management is the highest level planning process within an enterprise and includes the definition, refinement, prioritization and funding of business strategy initiatives. These initiatives are referred to as epics in SAFe, and once approved at the portfolio level, are translated into implementable features that…
The scaled agile framework (SAFe) enables organizations to transform business needs into working software in a consistent, repeatable way, using lean principles. It’s useful to think of this process as one of continuous and progressive refinement of business requirements until discrete items of value can be accepted by delivery teams for implementation. This is accomplished…
“Plans are things that change” — Fujio Cho, Toyota “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything” — Dwight D. Eisenhower “Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the face” — Mike Tyson Contents PI Planning Goals SAFe Framework Overview SAFe Requirements Hierarchy SAFe Program Backlog Construction & Refinement PI Planning Formats PI Planning…