How is Enterprise Strategy different from Portfolios?
The enterprise represents the business entity to which one or more SAFe® portfolios belong, and a SAFe® Portfolio funds one or more development Value Streams – each dedicated to building, deploying, and supporting a set of solutions the enterprise needs to accomplish its business mission.
SAFe® is not two-dimensional because an enterprise might have multiple portfolios, and a portfolio could have development multiple Value Streams and Solution Trains and/or Agile Release Trains (ARTs).
Let’s look at an example of a bank. The enterprise, Big Bank Group, has within it a number of business units, for example, retail, credit card, capital markets, and wealth, which each have...