Lean-Agile mindset
An important part of the culture in SAFe that the practices try to engender is a combination of Lean thinking with Agile development. This combination is known as the Lean-Agile mindset.
One of the two parts of this mindset looks at how an organization can eliminate waste to focus on what’s necessary. This part looks at Lean thinking to accomplish that.
The second part of this mindset looks to ensure incremental delivery happens. For this, we look at the Manifesto for Agile Software Development for guidance. Meeting the needs of an organization in SAFe requires a close examination and adjustment of the Agile Manifesto. We’ll soon look at these adjustments.
With this mindset in place, we need to examine what is important in SAFe. To that end, we will examine the core values of SAFe.
The SAFe House of Lean
Lean thinking has its roots in the Toyota Production System (TPS), created by Taiichi Ohno, with some inspiration from W. Edwards Deming...
