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{{Short description|Set of workflow practices}}

The '''scaled agile framework''' ('''SAFe''') is a set of organization and workflow patterns intended to guide enterprises in [[Scaling of innovations|scaling]] [[Lean software development|lean]] and [[Agile software development|agile]] practices.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Scaling Agile Methods for Department of Defense Programs|last1=Hayes|first1=Will|last2=Lapham|first2=Mary Ann|last3=Miller|first3=Suzanne|last4=Wrubel|first4=Eileen|last5=Capell|first5=Peter|publisher=Software Engineering Institute|year=2016|id=CMU/SEI-2016-TN-005}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.techradar.com/news/software/why-continuous-delivery-is-key-to-speeding-up-software-development-1282498|title=Why Continuous Delivery is key to speeding up software development|last=Athrow|first=Desiree|date=29 January 2015|work=TechRadar|access-date=2017-11-27}}</ref> Along with [[Scrum (software development)#Large-scale scrum|large-scale Scrum]] (LeSS) and [[disciplined agile delivery]] (DAD), SAFe is one of a growing number of frameworks that seek to address the problems encountered when scaling beyond a single team.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.infoq.com/news/2015/01/disciplined-agile-delivery|title=Scaling Agile with the Disciplined Agile Delivery Framework|last=Linders|first=Ben|date=January 22, 2015|website=InfoQ|access-date=2017-11-27}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Agile in-the-large: Getting from Paradox to Paradigm|last=van Haaster|first=K|publisher=Unpublished paper from Charles Sturt University|year=2014}}</ref>

SAFe promotes alignment, collaboration, and delivery across large numbers of agile teams. It was developed by and for practitioners, by leveraging three primary bodies of knowledge: [[agile software development]], [[lean product development]], and [[systems thinking]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=King|first=Michael|year=2017|title=Serving Federal Customers with SAFe Concepts|url=http://cmmiinstitute.com/sites/default/files/resource_asset/Serving%20Federal%20Customers%20Using%20Agile%2C%20SAFe%2C%20And%20CMMI%20Principles.pdf|journal=Capability Counts Conference Proceedings}}{{dead link|date=September 2022}} </ref>