Welcome to Scaled Agile Framework^® 6.0!

Hi, I’m Dean Leffingwell, Creator of SAFe^® and co-founder of Scaled Agile Inc. On behalf of the entire Scaled Agile team I am pleased to introduce you to the Scaled Agile Framework®.

SAFe is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles, practices, and competencies for achieving business agility using Lean, Agile, and DevOps. It is built around the Five Disciplines of the Lean-Agile Organization that are critical to achieving and sustaining a competitive advantage in an increasingly digital age:

Leadership and Culture – Advancing and applying Lean-Agile leadership skills that drive and sustain organizational change by empowering individuals and teams to reach their highest potential.

Team and Technical Agility – Creating high-performing Agile teams as well as sound technical practices, including built-in quality, implementing and measuring flow, and more.

Product Development Flow – Enables organisations to smoothly release valuable product increments and respond swiftly to market changes. Consistent feedback and ongoing improvement drive innovation and maximize customer value.

Large Solution Integration and Delivery – Building and sustaining the world’s largest software applications, networks, and cyber-physical solutions.

Lean Portfolio Management – Executing portfolio vision and strategy formulation, chartering portfolios, creating the Vision, Lean budgets and Guardrails, as well as portfolio prioritization, and roadmapping.

Each discipline contains a set of competencies that address the most pressing business problems facing organizations on their journey towards agility. Mastery of these competencies enables enterprises to achieve the outcomes required to successfully respond to volatile market conditions, changing customer needs, and emerging technologies.

The SAFe Framework continually evolves as we learn more about emerging ways of working and incorporate feedback from our customers and partners worldwide. The What’s New in SAFe page provides a monthly update of all the changes.

Our Mission

Since the earliest days at Scaled Agile, our core belief has been simple: Better software and systems make the world a better place. This requires every part of the organization involved in delivering and supporting technology-based solutions—development, operations, manufacturing, legal, marketing, finance, compliance, sales, and others —to embrace the principles and practices of Lean and Agile. We help enterprises achieve business agility through the research and thought leadership reflected in the SAFe website and our world-class courseware, training, community resources, and certification programs.

As you can see from the numerous Customer Stories, many large and small enterprises are getting outstanding business benefits from applying SAFe.  Benefits typically include:

• 20 – 50% increase in productivity
• 25 – 75% improvements in quality
• 30 – 75% faster time-to-market
• 10 – 50% increase in employee engagement and job satisfaction

As you can imagine, with these results, SAFe adoption is growing rapidly worldwide. Seventy percent of Fortune 100 companies and a growing number of the Global 2000 have certified SAFe professionals and consultants on-site, and over 2,000,000 practitioners have been trained to date.