SAFe® 4.0 Reference Guide: Scaled Agile Framework® for Lean Software and Systems Engineering

#7 – Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning

Cadence and synchronization limit the accumulation of variance.

—Donald Reinertsen, Principles of Product Development Flow

Solution development is an inherently uncertain process. If it weren’t, then the solutions would already exist and there would be no room for the next generation of innovations. This inherent uncertainty conflicts with the business need to manage investment, track progress, and have sufficient certainty of future outcomes to be able to plan and commit to a reasonable course of action. Solution development lives at the intersection; it is its own conundrum—the conflict ...