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

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Measure, Grow, and Accelerate

“Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence—only in constant improvement and constant change.”

—Tom Peters

In the previous chapters of this part of the book, we covered steps 1–11 of the implementation roadmap. In this chapter, we’ll cover the last and most persistent step—step 12: accelerate. However, this final step is not the end. Instead, it’s the start of a new beginning! Now the goal is to accelerate the enterprise’s growth toward business agility.

To reinforce and accelerate the SAFe transformation, leaders must now ‘measure and grow’ the implementation. To do that, they’ll need to maintain the energy and enthusiasm they’re devoting to the short cycles of iterations and Program Increments (PIs) while ...