SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

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Implementing Agile Release Trains

“Train everyone and launch trains.”

—SAFe advice

Introduction

In the previous two chapters of this part of the book, we described steps 1–6 of the implementation roadmap. In this chapter, we’ll cover the next three steps, which together is arguably the most important part of the transformation, the part where the enterprise implements Agile Release Trains (ARTs). The steps described in this chapter include the following:

• Step 7: Prepare for the ART launch.

• Step 8: Train teams and launch the ART.

• Step 9: Coach ART execution.

In addition, we’ll describe an accelerated, one-week ‘quick-start’ approach to the ART launch, which—after some preparation—is the fastest way for an ART to begin delivering value. ...