SAFe 5.0 Distilled

A single volume account of the Scaled Agile Framework written by two of the people who built it. It works through the seven core competencies of business agility, then through the framework itself at team, programme, large solution and portfolio level, covering the Agile Release Train, planning increments, the Lean Portfolio Management function and the continuous delivery pipeline. The lean agile mindset and the underlying principles get chapters of their own, so the reasoning behind the practices sits alongside the practices. Later material deals with adoption, with the roles that change most, and with measuring whether the framework is producing anything. Read it if your organisation has adopted SAFe or if you are preparing for a Scaled Agile certification.