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The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a Software development methodology that is based on a publicly available knowledge base used for implementing agile practices at enterprise scale. Its primary user interface is a “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, presented in a structured and interactive web format, 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 and backlogs) Teams (from development team through portfolio) and Timebox (iteration, PSI, budget cycle). This model of agile adoption has been elaborated primarily in Dean Leffingwell’s books: Agile Software Requirements Lean Requirements for Teams Programs and the Enterprise (2011) and Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises, (2007) and his blog, scalingsoftwareagilityblog.