Scaling Agile

Agile Release Train (ART) Advanced SAFe's team of agile teams: 5 to 12 teams, around 50 to 125 people, planning and delivering together on a shared cadence. Coordination Mechanisms Advanced The practices teams use to stay aligned when several teams work on one product. Cross-Team Collaboration Advanced Teams working together effectively across boundaries to deliver value that no single team owns. Dependency Management Advanced Spotting, reducing and coordinating the ways teams' work depends on each other, so nothing gets stuck waiting. Distributed Agile Teams Advanced Agile teams whose members work in different locations or time zones, collaborating mainly online. Enterprise Agility Advanced Applying agile principles across a whole enterprise, from strategy and funding to delivery. Essential SAFe Advanced The minimum configuration of SAFe: the team and Agile Release Train levels needed to get started. Large Solution SAFe Advanced The SAFe configuration for building very large, complex solutions that need several Agile Release Trains and suppliers. Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) Advanced Managing a portfolio of investments with lean and agile principles: fund value streams, decide often, and govern lightly. MetaScrum Advanced In Scrum@Scale, the forum where Product Owners and stakeholders align a shared backlog across many teams. Organizational Design for Agility Advanced Structuring teams, roles and reporting lines so value flows quickly from idea to customer. Portfolio SAFe Advanced The SAFe configuration that adds strategy, investment funding and lean governance on top of Essential SAFe. Program Increment (PI) Advanced SAFe's planning cycle for an Agile Release Train: typically 8 to 12 weeks, usually several sprints plus an innovation and planning iteration. SAFe for Lean Enterprises Advanced The full name used for the Scaled Agile Framework in some versions, emphasizing business agility across the whole enterprise. Scrum of Scrums Advanced A meeting where representatives from several Scrum teams coordinate dependencies and impediments. Solution Train Advanced In SAFe, a group of Agile Release Trains and suppliers working together to build one large solution. Team of Teams Advanced An organization of many small teams networked together with shared purpose, as described by General Stanley McChrystal.