Table of Contents

Preface
About the Authors

Part I: Overview

Chapter 1: Business Need for SAFe

Chapter 2: SAFe Overview

Part II: The Foundation of SAFe

Chapter 3: Lean-Agile Mindset

Chapter 4: Lean-Agile Leaders

Chapter 5: SAFe Principles

Part III: Program and Team Level

Chapter 6: The Agile Release Train

Chapter 7: Planning a Program Increment

Chapter 8: Executing a Program Increment

Chapter 9: Inspect and Adapt

Part IV: Value Stream Level

Chapter 10: Value Stream Overview

Chapter 11: Defining Complex Solutions

Chapter 12: Coordinating ARTs & Suppliers

Part V: Portfolio Level

Chapter 13: Portfolio Level Overview

Chapter 14: Lean-Agile Budgeting, Forecasting, and Contracting

Part VI: Implementing SAFe

Chapter 15: The Guiding Coalition

Chapter 16: Design the Implementation

Chapter 17: Implementing Agile Release Trains

Chapter 18: Sustain and Improve

Abbreviations

About the Author

Richard Knaster, SAFe Fellow and Principal Consultant at Scaled Agile, Inc., has more than 25 years’ experience in software development in roles ranging from developer to executive and has been involved in Agile for more than a decade. Prior to joining Scaled Agile, Inc., Richard worked at IBM, where his career spanned from product line management (PPM domain) and professional services to chief methodologist, Agile and Lean. Richard is a certified IBM Thought Leader and an Open Group Distinguished IT Specialist. He is also a certified SPC, PSM, Agile Certified Practitioner, PMP, and a contributor to the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework and PMI Portfolio/Program Management standards. He was a contributor to SAFe(R) 4.0 Reference Guide (Addison-Wesley, 2017).

Dean Leffingwell, creator of SAFe®, is widely recognized as the one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices. He is an author, serial entrepreneur, and software systems development methodologist. He is author of SAFe(R) 4.0 Reference Guide (Addison-Wesley, 2017). His two best-selling books, Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise (Addison-Wesley, 2011), and Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises (Addison-Wesley, 2007), form much of the basis of modern thinking on Lean-Agile practices and principles.