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SAFe 4.5 Reference Guide: Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises, Second edition
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SAFe 4.5 Reference Guide: Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises, Second edition

by Dean Leffingwell
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
22h 53m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from SAFe 4.5 Reference Guide: Scaled Agile Framework for Lean Enterprises, Second edition

Six SAFe Practices for S-Sized Teams

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By Juha-Markus Aalto, Director Product Development, Qentinel Group

SAFe has been designed to tackle the challenges of ‘M to XXL’ (medium to extra, extra large-sized) programs. Such programs consist of several Agile teams with approximately 50–100 people, or even as many as hundreds or thousands of practitioners.

Are Scrum and Kanban Enough?

But what about ‘S-sized’ (small) development organizations with just one or a few teams? Is there anything in SAFe for them—or are Scrum and Kanban just enough? The answer, of course, is it depends. Read on to find out what those things are.

If a pure software team mainly ...

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