SAFe® Enterprise

Foundations

SAFe at Enterprise Scale

Applying SAFe across an entire organization, coordinating many teams, ARTs, and value streams toward business agility.

Business Agility

The ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by responding quickly with innovative, digitally-enabled solutions.

Seven Core Competencies

Lean-Agile Leadership, Team and Technical Agility, Agile Product Delivery, Enterprise Solution Delivery, Lean Portfolio Management, Organizational Agility, and Continuous Learning Culture.

SAFe Configurations

Essential, Large Solution, Portfolio, and Full SAFe — configurations that scale the framework to the organization's needs.

Levels

Essential SAFe

The foundational configuration centered on the Agile Release Train and its practices.

Large Solution

Coordinating multiple ARTs and suppliers to build very large solutions via the Solution Train.

Portfolio Level

Aligning strategy and funding to value streams through Lean Portfolio Management.

Full SAFe

All levels combined for the largest, most complex enterprises.

Coordination

Solution Train

An organizational construct that coordinates multiple ARTs and suppliers to deliver large solutions.

Coordinating ARTs

Aligning multiple trains on shared cadence, dependencies, and integration.

Pre- and Post-PI Planning

Events that align multiple ARTs on a solution before and after their PI Planning.

Solution Demo

An integrated demonstration of the full solution across all contributing ARTs.

Value Streams

Operational Value Stream

The steps that deliver value to customers directly.

Development Value Stream

The activities that build the solutions operational value streams rely on; ARTs align to these.

Organizing Around Value

Structuring the enterprise around value streams rather than functional silos.

Portfolio

Lean Portfolio Management

Aligning strategy, funding, and governance to value streams across the portfolio.

Strategic Themes

Business objectives that connect the portfolio to enterprise strategy.

Lean Budgets

Funding value streams rather than projects to enable flow and flexibility.

Leading

Lean-Agile Leadership

Leaders drive enterprise change by modeling values and empowering teams.

SAFe Implementation Roadmap

The recommended steps to adopt SAFe across the enterprise.

Measure and Grow

Assessing business agility with outcome, flow, and competency metrics to guide improvement.

Continuous Learning Culture

Building enterprise capability to learn, innovate, and improve continuously.