SAFe 5.0 Distilled; Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework, 1st edition

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^® 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework^®explains how adopting SAFe can quickly improve time to market and increase productivity, quality, and employee engagement. In this book, students 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

• Gain an in-depth understanding of the Scaled Agile Framework and understand how to successfully implement it in their organization
• Be able to provide guidelines for implementing agile/lean principles at Scale
• Learn how to overcome the most common potential barriers to organizational impediments that prevent business agility
• Become lean thinking managers who are able to teach teams to continuously improve the program and performance