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SAFe
SAFe stands for "Scaled Agile Framework" and is an agile software development framework that is designed for large-scale agile development involving many teams.
The main website (http://www.scaledagileframework.com/) is an freely available online knowledge base on implementing SAFe.
Principles
There are nine, underlying principles for SAFe
- Take an economic view - evaluate economic costs of decisions, developments, and risks
- Apply systems thinking - development processes are interactions among the systems used by workers and thus need to view progress with systems thinking
- Assume variability; preserve options - requirements change, be flexible, and use empirical data to narrow focus
- Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles - fast, incremental builds allow rapid feedback in order to change the project if necessary
- Base milestones on objective evaluation on working systems - objective evaluation provides important information such as financials and governance as feedback
- Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths - do these to achieve continuous flow to move quickly and visualize progress; WIP = work-in-progress
- Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning - cadence is setting dates when certain events happen (e.g. release weekly) and synchronizing makes sure everyone has the same goals in mind
- Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers - people work better when you make use of their personal motivations
- Decentralize decision-making - allows faster action, which may be not the best solution, but allows faster communication among teams; centralized decision-making may be necessary for more strategic or global decisions
Configurations
There are four variations of SAFe, varying in complexity and needs of your project:
- Essential SAFe
- Portfolio SAFe
- Large Solution SAFe
- Full SAFe