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SAFe 6.0 and SAFe Studio Platform released to help organizations achieve business agility
Scaled Agile Inc., provider of business agility system SAFe, today announced the release of two new flagship products: SAFe 6.0 and SAFe Studio. SAFe 6.0 offers users the latest version of the Scaled Agile Framework, courses, certifications, toolkits, and online learning and SAFe Studio is a platform where SAFe professionals can learn, practice, and manage … continue reading
3 ways to align site reliability engineering with SAFe – and why it’s a smart thing to do
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a great tool for establishing agile and Lean best practices across an enterprise. It provides an overarching architecture for aligning development, quality assurance and other functions to produce a faster workflow and to boost performance across the board. There is an important missing link, though. To date the SAFe … continue reading
premium Scrum and SAFe: Four tips for Scrum masters
As Agile software development continues to take hold across all industries, along with DevOps practices and tooling, refining the delivery of products and services is increasingly the focus for many firms. Ensuring business goals and customer requirements are being met is key to software delivery. This requires detailed planning and organization of all teams working … continue reading
SAFe 5.0 for Lean Enterprises focuses on enabling business agility
Scaled Agile Inc., the company behind the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), has announced a new version of the framework. SAFe 5.0 for Lean Enterprises features advances in strategy, execution, and leadership competencies. This updated version of the framework offers companies guidance on how they can extend the Lean-Agile mindset into areas of the business such … continue reading
The Most Important Tool in DevOps: Value Stream Mapping
“We want to change the conversation about tooling in DevOps. Everyone is ‘doing’ DevOps, but only a handful are getting the value they expected. Why? They’re using the wrong tools or applying tools in the wrong ways. The solution is to apply the right tools at the right times, and for the right reasons,” said … continue reading
The new age of Agile: Evolving from teams to the entire business
In his book, From Project to Product, author Mik Kersten describes how business leaders are ill-equipped to solve the problems posed by digital transformation. He points to the 2018 report, Corporate Longevity Forecast, which issues a “… gale force warning to leaders: at the current churn rate, about half of S&P 500 companies will be … continue reading
How to get started with SAFe
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has been around for almost eight years now, and over time the framework has evolved and grown to include all the changes happening in the software development industry. Since the framework was initially released in 2011, the industry has seen more Kanban, DevOps, lean product development, value stream, technical agility … continue reading
Stepping back from the Scaled Agile Framework
When Al Shalloway, CEO of Net Objectives, first decided to partner with Scaled Agile, Inc. on the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) back in 2012, he had high hopes of where the framework could go and how it could help enterprises with their scaling Agile initiatives. Shalloway’s intuition was right. Since 2011, SAFe has provided a … continue reading
A CALMR approach to DevOps
Digital disruption impacts organizations across industries. To stay relevant, they need to implement change faster and provide customers with continuous value. While many enterprises are focused on continuous delivery, their ultimate goal is to provide value on demand. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a freely available knowledge base of proven, integrated principles and practices … continue reading
Framework and standards are the ‘Essence’ of agile at scale
Since its creation, the agile software development methodology has been increasing in popularity. With its almost universal use, agile has now become less of a different and new methodology and more just the way developers operate. In other words, it is now standard practice for most teams to be using agile. With that in mind, … continue reading
This is how you enterprise Scrum
It’s been almost 20 years since the term “enterprise Scrum” was coined, but despite the years of practice, organizations still don’t quite understand what it is or how to implement it. “There are a lot of users out there doing the technique, but unfortunately there is a large percentage that still doesn’t understand what it … continue reading
Rally software enables enterprise-scale Agile transformations
First and largest SAFe Gold Partner provides new capabilities for team, program and portfolio levels of Agile adoption … continue reading
