Becoming SAFe
In this section, you will learn the basic concepts that are the foundations behind SAFe. Scaled Agile, Inc. develops and promotes SAFe as a comprehensive Lean-Agile methodology to achieve business agility. The target market for SAFe includes "the world's largest and most sophisticated software applications, networks, and cyber-physical systems." – https://www.scaledAgileframework.com/enterprise-solution-delivery/.
The previous chapter on Disciplined Agile (DA) also presented a Lean-Agile approach to development. However, the focus of DA is on providing structured guidance on potentially useful, but optional, techniques in context with various process goals. In contrast, SAFe's Lean-Agile approach places more focus on how to implement organizational structures and processes to integrate and coordinate teams on a massive scale. For example, where DA implementations start at the single, small team level, SAFe integrates multiple Agile teams...