SAFe and scaled agile frameworks

This chapter discusses SAFe, one of the scaled agile frameworks. These frameworks are designed to help large organizations adopt lean and agile practices. Based on SAFe, enterprise architecture promotes innovation and engineering practices and helps teams coordinate. In addition to providing strategic guidance and reference architectures, enterprise architects are instrumental in helping developers implement standardized standards. When the standards of a company do not align, rework may be necessary. Additionally, silos within an organization can be broken down.

In addition, enterprise architecture emphasizes the importance of matching computing resources to business needs. Getting a company’s strategies in line with the information produced, its support infrastructure, and its current processes is critical to success. Organizations obtain success by releasing separate information at regular intervals. To create seamless end-to-end value...