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SAFe^®: The World’s Leading Framework for Enterprise Agility

"Philips is continuously driving to develop high-quality software in a predictable, fast, and Agile way. SAFe addresses this primary goal, and offers these further benefits: reduced time-to-market, improved quality, stronger alignment across geographically distributed multi-disciplinary teams, and collaboration across teams to deliver meaningful value to customers with reduced cycle time."

—Sundaresan Jagadeesan, SW CoE Program Director, Philips

To succeed in today’s adapt-or-die marketplace, businesses must be able to rapidly change the way they create and deliver value to their customers. Hundreds of the world’s most successful companies-including Intel, Capital One, AstraZeneca, Cisco, and Philips-have turned to the Scaled Agile Framework^® (SAFe^®) to achieve agility at scale and maintain a competitive edge.

SAFe^® 4.5 Distilled: Applying the Scaled Agile Framework^® for Lean Enterprises explains how adopting SAFe can quickly improve time to market and increase productivity, quality, and employee engagement. In this book, you will

• Understand the business case for SAFe: its benefits, the problems it solves, and how to apply it
• Get an overview of SAFe across all parts of the business: team, program, value stream, and portfolio
• Learn why SAFe works: the power of SAFe’s Lean-Agile mindset, values, and principles
• Discover how systems thinking, Agile development, and Lean product development form the underlying basis for SAFe
• Learn how to become a Lean-Agile leader and effectively drive an enterprise-wide transformation