SAFe Knowledge Base
SAFe Explained eBook
Key benefits of Lean and Agile include:
- Sustainable Development Practices
- Continuous Improvement and Innovation
- Enhanced Customer Satisfaction
- Adaptability to Change
- Frequent Delivery of Working Software
Now available in multi-language and government versions
Featured Article
Solving Business Problems with SAFe Competencies
Big Picture Articles
- Agile Release Train (ART)
- Agile Teams
- ART and Solution Train Backlog
- ART Event – Inspect and Adapt
- ART Event – PI Planning
- ART Event – System Demo
- Business Owners
- Business Value
- Continuous Delivery Pipeline (CDP)
- Coordinate and Deliver
- Core Values
- Customer Centricity
- Customizing SAFe
- Development Value Streams
- Enablers
- Enterprise
SAFe Disciplines and Competencies
- Leadership and Culture Discipline
- Building an AI Organization Competency
- Leading Change Competency
- Operating Agile Management Teams Competency
[Community Contribution] - Transforming People Development Competency
[Community Contribution]
- Team and Technical Agility Discipline
- Large Solution Integration and Delivery Discipline
Executive Guides and White Papers
- Accelerating SAP S/4HANA Success with SAFe Executive Guide
- Accelerating Business Value with SAFe and Technology Business Management White Paper
- Boost Your SAFe Implementation with Lean-Agile Procurement – LAP Alliance White Paper
- Complying with Regulatory and Industry Standards White Paper
- Eliminating the Blind Spot: A Proven Approach to Enterprise Technology Strategy Formulation White Paper
- Leading Change Beyond Kotter in an Agile Transformation White Paper
- Lean-Agile Financial Planning Original White Paper
- Measuring the ROI of SAFe Executive Guide
- Modernizing Product Development with SAFe Executive Guide
Extended Guidance
- Achieving Measurable Business Results with SAFe
- Agile Architecture in SAFe
- Agile Contracts
- Agile Testing
- Agile Workspaces
- Applying Kanban in SAFe
- Applying SAFe to Hardware Development
- AI Augmented Workforce: A Leader’s Guide to Unleashing Human Potential
- Architectural Runway
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- ART Event – ART Sync
- Balancing the Dual Operating System
- Behavior-Driven Development
- Big Data
- Built-in Quality
- Business Agility
- Business and Technology
- CALMR
- CapEx and OpEx
- Cloud
- Coaching Flow
- Community of Practice (CoP)
- Compliance
- Continuous Deployment
- Continuous Exploration
- Continuous Integration
- Design Thinking
- Developing Sustainable Products with SAFe
- DevOps
- DevOps Practice Domains
- Distributed PI Planning
- Domain Modeling
- Enterprise Architect
- Epic Owners
- Essential SAFe
- Evolving Role of Managers in Lean-Agile Development
- Facilitating SAFe Assessments
- Government – Adapting governance practices to support agility and lean flow of value
- Government – Adopting Lean budgeting aligned to development value streams
- Government – Aligning technology investments with agency strategy
- Government – Applying Lean estimating and forecasting in cadence
- Government – Building in quality and compliance
- Government – Building on a solid foundation of Lean-Agile values, principles, and practices
- Government – Creating high-performing teams of teams of government and contractor personnel
- Government – Modifying acquisition practices to enable Lean-Agile development and operations
- Government – Transitioning from projects to a lean flow of epics
- Guardrails
- Innovation Accounting in SAFe
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Iteration Goals
- Iteration Retrospective
- Iteration Review
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Large Solution SAFe
- Lean Budgets
- Lean Governance
- Lean UX
- Model-Based Systems Engineering
- Nonfunctional Requirements (NFRs)
- Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
- Operating Value Streams for Large Solution Development
- Operational Value Streams
- Organizing Agile Teams and ARTs: Team Topologies at Scale
- Participatory Budgeting
- PI Objectives
- Pre-Plan
- Recommended Reading
- Refactoring
- Responsible AI
- SAFe Requirements Model
- SAFe Scrum
- SAFe Team Kanban
- Set-Based Design
- Shared Services
- Solution Architect
- Solution Context
- Solution Demo
- Solution Intent
- Solution Management
- Solution Train
- Solution Train Engineer (STE)
- Solving Business Problems with SAFe® Competencies
- Supplier
- System Team
- Team Event – Iteration Planning
- Team Event – Iteration Retrospective
- Team Event – Iteration Review
- Team Event – Team Backlog Refinement
- Team Event – Team Sync
- Test-Driven Development
- Value Management Office (VMO)
- Value Stream Management
- Weighted Shortest Job First
- What’s new in SAFe 6.0?
- Working Successfully in Agile with Remote Team Members
Community Contributions
- Accelerating Flow with DevSecOps and the Software Factory
- Achieving Business Agility with Business Engagement
- Agile People Operations
- Agile Risk Management
- Building the Change and Communications Competency for Effective ARTs
- Building the Right Things at the Right Time: Capacity Allocation in SAFe Portfolios
- Continuous Delivery
- Design for Testability: A Vital Aspect of the System Architect Role in SAFe
- Embracing SAFe in Finance to become a Data-Driven Company
- Enhance ART Performance with the Accelerating Flow Problem-Solving Workshop
- Enterprise Backlog Structure and Management
- Enterprise Workflow with the SAFe Portfolio Kanban
- Enabling Strategic Alignment with an Enterprise Strategy Room
- Getting Tactical with Organizational Agility: Techniques for Visualizing and Improving Flow
- Hardware Teams in SAFe
- HR Playbook for a Successful SAFe Implementation
- Human-Centered Design with SAFe
- Implementation Strategies for Business Epics
- Improving Strategic Investment Impact by Limiting Portfolio WIP
- Invitation-based SAFe implementation
- Improving Portfolio Outcomes with Real Options
- Launching an Enterprise Agile Transformation at a Large Insurance Company
- Lean UX and the SAFe Planning Increment Life Cycle
- Mixing Agile and Waterfall Development
- Organizing Teams on the ART with the Team Formation Workshop
- Process and Simple Tool for Planning Portfolio Work
- Participatory Budgeting: Understanding Color of Money and Other Constraints
- Right-Sizing Features for SAFe Planning Intervals
- Running the Transformation Using a SAFe Agile Release Train
- SAFe and Obeya: A Game Changer for Strategy Execution
- Six SAFe Practices for ‘S-Sized’ Teams
- Startup SAFe
- Talent Enablement Guide for a SAFe Organization in FinTech
- The Right Degree at the Right Time
- The Role of People Managers in SAFe
- The Role of PI Objectives
- Unleashing Marketing’s Potential: Experiences Of An Agile Marketing Train Inside a Corporate Marketing Organization
Last Update: 19 May 2025