SAFe 5.0 Distilled Quotes

“Leaders have to understand the principles and practices of change leadership and organizational change management. They must become curators, caretakers, and defenders of the new way of working.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“The same level of attention and effort should be devoted to the launch of each subsequent train as for the first, focusing initially on ARTs within the same value stream before moving onto the next value stream.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“excess Work In Process (WIP) produces multitasking (lowering productivity), unpredictability (lowering trust and engagement), and burnout (lowering everything).”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“A continuous learning culture will likely be the most effective way for this next generation of workers to relentlessly improve, and the successful companies that employ them.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. Through learning, we recreate ourselves. Through learning, we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning, we re-perceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning, we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life. There is within each of us a deep hunger for this type of learning.” —Peter M. Senge,”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“The ‘SAFe managed-investment contract’ describes an Agile approach to contracts and can be found on the SAFe website.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“Achieving business agility requires a more flexible approach to all types of contracts. How this is achieved depends on the nature and type of contract, but each must be considered in terms of the adaptability that may be required as strategy evolves.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“Agility is the ability to adapt and respond to change … agile organizations view change as an opportunity, not a threat.” —Jim Highsmith”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“Strategic themes are elaborated by using a simple phrase or by using the Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) format”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“Leaders set the example through coaching, empowering, and engaging individuals and teams to reach their highest potential.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“The last insight to improve flow is to manage and reduce the length of the work queue. Long queues of work create all sorts of undesirable results.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“The first step to correct the problem is to make the current WIP visible to all stakeholders. The simple Kanban board in Figure 4-8 provides one example of how to do this.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“Overloading teams and ARTs with more work than can be reasonably accomplished causes too much WIP, which confuses priorities, causes frequent context switching, and increases overhead and wait times. Like a crowded highway at rush hour, there is simply no upside to having more WIP than the system can handle. Experience shows that excess WIP drives high utilization, which results in the inability to respond to change, burnout, late product launches, reduced profits, and poor economic outcomes.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“To begin the Lean-Agile journey and instill new habits into the culture, everyone must adopt the values, mindset, and principles provided by SAFe, Lean thinking, and the Agile Manifesto. This new mindset creates the foundation needed for a successful Lean-Agile transformation.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“The Lean-Agile mindset is the combination of beliefs, assumptions, attitudes, and actions of leaders and practitioners who embrace the concepts of the Agile Manifesto and Lean thinking and apply it in their daily lives.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“Organizational Agility describes how Lean-thinking people and Agile teams optimize their business processes, evolve strategy with clear and decisive new commitments, and quickly adapt the organization as needed to capitalize on new opportunities.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“Lean Portfolio Management aligns strategy and execution by applying Lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“Lean-Agile Leadership describes how Lean-Agile leaders drive and sustain organizational change by empowering individuals and teams to reach their highest potential.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“This model, which Kotter calls a dual operating system, restores the speed and innovation of the entrepreneurial network while leveraging the benefits and stability of the hierarchical system.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“In the age of software, every business is a software business. Agility isn’t an option, or a thing just for teams; it is a business imperative.” —Dean Leffingwell, creator of SAFe”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“With SAFe, organizations can better link strategy with execution, innovate faster and deliver high-quality solutions to the market more quickly.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework

“interconnected, real-time world in which every industry depends on technology and every organization is (at least in part) a software company.”
― Knaster Richard, SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework