Many organisations have benefited from the transformational practices of Lean and Agile at the team level, but how do we apply the learnings within larger enterprises that are tasked with building complex solutions that potentially require hundreds of people to develop?

The Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) is a knowledge base of proven, integrated principles and practices for Lean, Agile, and DevOps that helps large organisations with this challenge. SAFe was released in 2011 and is currently the most popular method for scaling Lean-Agile.

If you’re considering whether SAFe is right for your context, then there are four things you should know about SAFe.

If you're working in a larger enterprise that is doing at least some form of Agile then the chances are that you've heard of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). SAFe was recently voted #1 in 'Scaling Methods and Approaches' in VersionOne's 11th Annual State of Agile Report.

SAFe offers a lot of guidance around Agile @ scale but no matter what framework you ultimately decide to implement, it's important to understand the core elements of the framework to ensure they aren't being missed in the overall implementation.  Without an appreciation of the essentials, it's all too easy to inadvertently fall into anti-patterns that will ultimately detract from the benefits that could otherwise be realised.

In this session we'll talk about the 10 key elements of Essential SAFe and see how these are broadly applicable to all scaled frameworks.  We'll then do a self-assessment and reflect on our findings with the broader group.