SAFe 4.5 Distilled: Applying the Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises

by Richard Knaster and Dean Leffingwell

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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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  • ISBN10 0135170494
  • ISBN13 9780135170496
  • Publish Date 26 December 2018 (first published 10 April 2017)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 30 November 2020
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Pearson Education Limited
  • Imprint Addison Wesley
  • Edition 2nd edition
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 352
  • Language English