SAFe® 4.0 Distilled: Applying the Scaled Agile Framework® for Lean Software and Systems Engineering, First Edition

12. Coordinating ARTs and Suppliers

Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.

—Auguste Comte, founder of sociology

Overview

Value Stream PI Planning

ART PI Planning

Value Stream Post-PI Planning

Frequent Solution Integration

Value Stream Sync

Solution Demo

Value Stream Inspect and Adapt

Summary

Overview

In part III of this book, we discussed planning and executing a Program Increment (PI), as well as the Inspect and Adapt (I&A) event for a single Agile Release Train (ART). But as covered in the previous chapter, when it comes to building really big systems, a single ART is only part of the story. In these larger value streams, execution requires the coordination ...