- Welcome to lesson three, understanding SAFe principles.
With a basic understanding of SAFe in place
and a lean agile mindset underway you're ready to learn
how the framework builds
on nine fundamental principles of lean agile development.
These are the essential tenets,
the basic economic truths
that underlie the practices we'll explore later.
As Deming has said, "It is a disease of Western management
"that they think their problems are all different."
They are different to be sure but the principles
that improve the quality of product and service
are universal in nature.
Keeping these principles in mind
enables you to make necessary modifications
to overcome the inevitable challenges you'll face
during implementation.
So whether you are building a small desktop application,
a sass solution, a new ERP system,
a medical device, or a satellite,
you'll want to take an economic view,
apply systems thinking,
assume variability and preserve options,
build incrementally with fast integrated learning cycles,
base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems,
visualize and limit work in process,
reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths.
Apply cadence and synchronize with cross-domain planning.
Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
and decentralize decision-making.