SAFe® 4.5 Distilled: Applying the Scaled Agile Framework® for Lean Enterprises, Second Edition

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Strategy and Investment Funding

“Do our innovation investments focus on leveraging our crown jewels, or are we spreading ourselves too thin and failing to achieve genuine competitive separation?”

—Geoffrey Moore

Introduction

In the first chapter of part V, we introduced the Portfolio SAFe configuration from the perspective of Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and the three collaborations around strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and Lean governance.

We also highlighted that strategy and investment funding is arguably the most important of these collaborations. When this collaboration operates with strategic alignment and effective communication, then the enterprise can be confident that each solution portfolio is ...