SAFe 4.5

SAFe 4.5 is out! Checkout the new look at: http://www.scaledagileframework.com

Quick visible differences -

• Program Portfolio Mgmt is now Lean Portfolio Mgmt
• Lean budget makes an interesting read!
• Configurable SAFe (FULL, LARGE SOLUTION, PORTFOLIO and ESSENTIAL)
• Could not find VSE, found STE instead, stands for Solution Train Engineer
• Solution Train.. earlier we use to just call it as ART at Value stream
• Continuous delivery Pipeline at Program level with Continuous Exploration, Integration and Deployment
• Special place for SPC... makes "base" for the framework along with implementation roadmap
• Palette is vertical... yes this makes sense
• System Team is on palette but DevOps at Program level

Do you see any other differences?

Now that SAFe is configurable, enterprises will have less "guilt" in answering the question if they are following SAFe "fully" or "partially" as they have more options now (Full, Large solution, Portfolio and Essential)