SAFe® 4.5 Distilled: Applying the Scaled Agile Framework® for Lean Enterprises, Second Edition

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Launching More ARTs and Value Streams; Extending to the Portfolio

“Consolidate gains and produce more change.”

          —John Kotter

Introduction

So far, we’ve covered the first nine steps of the implementation roadmap. In this chapter, we’ll describe the next two steps in the transformation:

Step 10. Launch more ARTs and value streams.

Step 11. Extend to the portfolio.

Step 10. Launch More ARTs and Value Streams

Launching the initial Agile Release Trains (ARTs) creates the effective patterns and institutional ‘muscle memory’ needed to implement additional ARTs in the value stream. At this point, the larger business opportunity has arrived, ...