Abstract
Over the past few years, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has been adopted by a large number of organizations to scale agile to large enterprises. At the moment, SAFe seems to be the most predominant agile scaling framework. Despite the current popularity of SAFe in the software intensive industry, there exists surprisingly little scientific research on the benefits and challenges of SAFe adoption. To collect the existing knowledge on this topic, we conducted a multivocal literature review, which includes both peer-reviewed and non-peer reviewed case studies and experience reports on organizations that have adopted SAFe. We identified 52 unique organisations adopting SAFe, five from the scientific literature and 47 from the grey literature. The most salient benefit categories were: transparency, alignment, productivity, predictability and time to market. The most frequently mentioned challenge categories were: change resistance, challenges with the first program increment planning and moving away from agile.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - 19th International Conference, PROFES 2018, Proceedings |
Editors | Marcus Ciolkowski, Regina Hebig, Marco Kuhrmann, Dietmar Pfahl, Paolo Tell, Sousuke Amasaki, Steffen Küpper, Kurt Schneider, Jil Klünder |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 334-351 |
Number of pages | 18 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030036720 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |
MoE publication type | A4 Conference publication |
Event | International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement - Wolfsburg, Germany Duration: 28 Nov 2018 → 30 Nov 2018 Conference number: 19 |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 11271 LNCS |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement |
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Abbreviated title | PROFES |
Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Wolfsburg |
Period | 28/11/2018 → 30/11/2018 |
Keywords
- Agile software development
- Large-scale agile software development
- SAFe
- Scaled agile framework