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The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a software development methodology knowledge base for implementing agile practices at enterprise scale. Presented in a structured, interactive, publicly-facing web format, its primary user interface is a “Agile Enterprise Big Picture” graphic which highlights the individual roles, teams, activities and artifacts necessary to scale agile from the team, to teams of teams, to the enterprise level.

Overview
The modern world runs on software. In order to keep pace, practitioners must build increasingly complex and sophisticated software systems. Doing so requires larger teams and continuously rethinking the methods and practices – part art, science, engineering, mathematics, social science – that are used to organize and manage these activities. The Scaled Agile Framework represents one such set of advances.

The Big Picture Describes Three Levels of Scale:
Team, Program and Portfolio. Each of these scales the essential agile elements of Value (requirements, user stories, backlogs) Teams (from development team through portfolio management) and Timebox (iteration, PSI, budget cycle).

Further Reading:
Leffingwell, Dean (2011). Agile Software Requirements, Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise, Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 978-0321635846.

Leffingwell, Dean (2007). Scaling Software Agility, Best Practices for Large Enterprises, Addison-Wesley Professional, ISBN 978-0321458193.