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

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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, in Part III of this book, 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 Train (ART) creates the patterns and ‘muscle memory’ needed to implement additional ARTs in the value stream. And now, the larger business opportunity has arrived, enabling the enterprise to consolidate gains and produce more change by launching more ARTs and value streams. ...