Book description
SAFe®: The World's Leading Framework for Enterprise Agility
"Philips is continuously driving to develop high-quality software in a predictable, fast, and Agile way. SAFe addresses this primary goal, and offers these further benefits: reduced time-to-market, improved quality, stronger alignment across geographically distributed multi-disciplinary teams, and collaboration across teams to deliver meaningful value to customers with reduced cycle time."
—Sundaresan Jagadeesan, SW CoE Program Director, Philips
To succeed in today's adapt-or-die marketplace, businesses must be able to rapidly change the way they create and deliver value to their customers. Hundreds of the world's most successful companies-including Intel, Capital One, AstraZeneca, Cisco, and Philips-have turned to the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) to achieve agility at scale and maintain a competitive edge.
SAFe® 4.5 Distilled: Applying the Scaled Agile Framework® for Lean Enterprises explains how adopting SAFe can quickly improve time to market and increase productivity, quality, and employee engagement. In this book, you will
- Understand the business case for SAFe: its benefits, the problems it solves, and how to apply it
- Get an overview of SAFe across all parts of the business: team, program, value stream, and portfolio
- Learn why SAFe works: the power of SAFe's Lean-Agile mindset, values, and principles
- Discover how systems thinking, Agile development, and Lean product development form the underlying basis for SAFe
- Learn how to become a Lean-Agile leader and effectively drive an enterprise-wide transformation
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- About This E-Book
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Abbreviations Used in This Book
- PART I: Overview
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PART II: Mindset, Principles, and Leadership
- 3 Lean-Agile Mindset
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4 SAFe Principles
- Why Focus on Principles?
- Principle #1: Take an Economic View
- Principle #2: Apply Systems Thinking
- Principle #3: Assume Variability; Preserve Options
- Principle #4: Build Incrementally with Fast, Integrated Learning Cycles
- Principle #5: Base Milestones on Objective Evaluation of Working Systems
- Principle #6: Visualize and Limit WIP, Reduce Batch Sizes, and Manage Queue Lengths
- Principle #7: Apply Cadence; Synchronize with Cross-Domain Planning
- Principle #8: Unlock the Intrinsic Motivation of Knowledge Workers
- Principle #9: Decentralize Decision-Making
- Summary
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5 Lean-Agile Leaders
- Exhibit the Lean-Agile Mindset
- Lead the Change
- Know the Way and Emphasize Lifelong Learning
- Develop People
- Inspire and Align with Mission. Minimize Constraints
- Decentralize Decision-Making
- Unlock the Intrinsic Motivation of Knowledge Workers
- Evolve the Development Manager Role
- Adopt a Servant-Leadership Approach
- Evolve the Partnership with Human Resources Management
- On the Future of Leadership
- Summary
- PART III: Essential SAFe
- PART IV: Large Solution SAFe
- PART V: Portfolio SAFe
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PART VI: Implementing SAFe
- 18 The Guiding Coalition
- 19 Designing the Implementation
- 20 Implementing Agile Release Trains
- 21 Launching More ARTs and Value Streams; Extending to the Portfolio
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22 Sustaining and Improving
- Introduction
- Foster Relentless Improvement and the Lean-Agile Mindset
- Implement Agile Human Resources Practices
- Advance Program Execution and Servant Leadership Skills
- Measure and Take Action
- Improve Agile Software Engineering Practices
- Focus on Agile Architecture
- Improve DevOps and Continuous Delivery
- Reduce Time-to-Market with Value Stream Mapping
- Summary
- Conclusion and Moving Forward
- Glossary
- Index
- Credits
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Online Chapters
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- 1 What’s New in SAFe® 4.6 for Lean Enterprises?
- 2 Lean-Agile Leadership Competency
- 3 Team and Technical Agility Competency
- 4 DevOps and Release on Demand Competency
- 5 Business Systems and Lean Systems Engineering Competency
- 6 Lean Portfolio Management Competency
- 7 SAFe for Government
- Glossary
Product information
- Title: SAFe® 4.5 Distilled: Applying the Scaled Agile Framework® for Lean Enterprises, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2018
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780135171264
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