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SAFe 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework 1st Edition

by Richard Knaster (Author), Dean Leffingwiell (Author)

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SAFe® 5.0: The World's Leading Framework for Business Agility

"Those who master large-scale software delivery will define the economic landscape of the twenty-first century. SAFe 5.0 is a monumental release that I am convinced will be key in helping countless enterprise organizations succeed in their shift from project to product."
–Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop and author of the book Project to Product

Business agility is the ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to unprecedented market changes, threats, and emerging opportunities with innovative business solutions.

SAFe® 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with Scaled Agile Framework® explains how adopting SAFe helps enterprises use the power of Agile, Lean, and DevOps to outflank the competition and deliver complex, technology-based business solutions in the shortest possible time.

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Understand the business case for SAFe: its benefits, and the problems it solves
Learn the technical, organizational and leadership competencies needed for business agility
Refocus on customer centricity with design thinking
Better align strategy and execution with Lean Portfolio Management
Learn the leadership skills needed to thrive in the digital age
Increase the flow of value to customers with value stream networks

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Richard Knaster, SAFe Fellow and Principal Consultant at Scaled Agile, Inc., has more than 25 years’ experience in software development in roles ranging from developer to executive and has been involved in Agile for more than a decade. Prior to joining Scaled Agile, Inc., Richard worked at IBM, where his career spanned from product line management (PPM domain) and professional services to chief methodologist, Agile and Lean. Richard is a certified IBM Thought Leader and an Open Group Distinguished IT Specialist. He is also a certified SPC, PSM, Agile Certified Practitioner, PMP, and a contributor to the Disciplined Agile Delivery framework and PMI Portfolio/Program Management standards. He is a contributor to SAFe® 4.5 Reference Guide (Addison-Wesley, 2018).
Dean Leffingwell, creator of SAFe®, is widely recognized as the one of the world’s foremost authorities on Lean-Agile best practices. He is an author, serial entrepreneur, and software systems development methodologist. His two best-selling books, Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Teams, Programs, and the Enterprise (Addison-Wesley, 2011), and Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises (Addison-Wesley, 2007), form much of the basis of modern thinking on Lean-Agile practices and principles.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (July 27, 2020)
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Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0136823408
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0136823407
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.06 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.75 x 9.05 inches

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Kaze

Easy to Read version of Scaled Agile Concepts

Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2022

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This is a great easy to read and understandable documentation of SAFe 5.0 concepts. Everything they teach in the "Leading SAFe" training and more is included in this book. Highly recommend for folks who are new to Scaled Agile. Another book you may want to look in to is "Rollout" by Alex Yakyma which is a well written fiction around implementation of SAFe principles in a corporate environment. Believe it or not, it is like one of those thrillers you don't want to put down once you start reading.

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BusyBeaching

Great compliment to course

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2023

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This book is straight forward with helpful illustrations.

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Useful (essential?) for SAFe Agilist 5.0 exam

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2021

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I bought this book as a study aid for the SAFe Agilist exam. My company required us project managers to take the SAFe Agile training and "encouraged" us to take (and pass) the certification examination. I did both, with the help of this book.

Note that everything in this book is on the website referenced multiple times inside this book. However, I find that studying from a book is better for me since a good book organizes the data into common subject areas and helps compartmentalize the data presented. That said, the study guide provided by my trainer for my exam had links to web pages that pulled data from more than one chapter in the book. This is also helpful because each link gives you all the data for that subject on a single web page regardless of how many chapters that data is spread over in the book.

An 11-page glossary of SAFe Agile terms and 18-page index are included at the end of the book, along with a few pages of ads. The website has capacity to store error corrections and supplements should the publishers wish to include any, so be sure to register your book on the site.

If this book is so useful, why just four stars and not five? Content-wise this is a 5-star book. If you're reading for pleasure (why would you?) this book is the complete bible for SAFe Agile version 5.0. If you're studying for the SAFe Agile 5.0 exam this book has all the information you'll need to answer the exam questions correctly. The 4-star rating is for the entire product, not just the data content and this book could be improved.

For example, the book is a paperback, and much thinner than I expected for this price. For a book with a $39.99 cover price, shouldn't it be a hardcover? And shouldn't it be more than 1 centimeter thick? They could have chosen thicker paper to give the book a better feel. Overall it seems well-bound and durable enough, but seems overpriced for the materials used.

Another example is the book's table of contents. Sure, it lists the three main parts and the 16 subsections (numbered continuously between parts 1, 2, and 3), but there are many other headings inside the chapters that are not detailed in the table of contents. This makes searching for a specific topic more work than it needs to be. I've seen other books that have a table of contents that detail all the section headings, or have two tables of contents, one with an overview and another with detail. I ended up adding numbers (in pencil) to ALL the headings in the book and transferring that to a Word document. My Word file had numbering like: 6, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.1.2, 6.1.3, and so forth, depending on how many subheading there were per section. This made finding stuff super simple. This outline also enabled me to keep additional notes on each section, like noting the key point of each section or defining key terms.

The authors make sure to remind you several times how great Agile is, if you implement their conception of it, and as a big ego booster to themselves have their "About" page just before the real content of the book starts. More humble authors include this on the LAST page of the book.

Should you buy this book? If you're planning to take the SAFe Agile 5.0 examination, then yes, you should buy this book. I don't know under what other conditions you would consider purchasing it, unless you work for a company that uses the Agile framework and you want to learn more about it on your own. I can't conceive of this book as pleasure reading even though it is well-written.

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Stephen K. Lambert II

Jumping into SAFe Agile

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2021

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I am new to Agile and I needed something that can bring me into the fold to understand the ins-and-outs. Though I understand this is something that requires practice, this book ABSOLUTELY gives me the head start I need.

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Brian Poppell

Good book for the Safe exam

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2022

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Good information and summary, especially when preparing for the SAFe exam.

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Kirt warren

Waste of money

Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2022

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Unfortunately nothing to see or learn that can't be found on SAFe website. Expected a better break down of the methodology but it's right of the website. Don't buy!

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Mr. Spock

From experts in the field

Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2022

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These folks know their business, a must for any development house

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Malcolm

Excellent for learning SAFe

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2021

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As part of my homework, I just completed the book SAFe Distilled 5.0, achieving business agility with the scaled agile framework by Richard Knaster and Dean Leffingwel. It was a very packed book. It covered three sections, the need for agility, the core competencies of a lean enterprise, and how toimplimented SAFe, measuer and grow. I had expected a dry, formulaic book describing the rituals of SAFe. I found that it covered a lot more, including lean / agile mindsets. It looked at multiple levels, from the individual mindset up to SAFe portfolio management. It goes into depth on many topics, including the principles, how they recommend applying agile at scale, and training multiple stakeholders and roles. Each chapter is a topic to review and contemplate. I got a lot from the first pass at the book, and I will need to review this book again and go a little slower.
SAFe, like a few other methodologies, attempts to scale from individual agile teams to work on larger projects. While the typical scrum team works well for projects that only require one team, SAFe and other frameworks allow you to coordinate multiple teams on the same project. I have worked briefly in an environment that was in cadence with the SAFe teams although our team was on the operations side, supporting the development teams and owning supporting tooling. This book was an excellent overview of the SAFe practices, and, as stated, I will be reviewing it again.

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Violeta Miovcic

An Amazing Book!

Reviewed in Canada on June 11, 2021

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Great book! Highly recommending it to everyone who wants to learn about SAFe. This book helped me a lot in passing SAFe5 Program Consultant exam at first try 😉

Heberto Coss

Good Book for SA Exam

Reviewed in Mexico on March 8, 2021

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It is great support to the workbook from SAFe,

Roberto

No lo compres en fisico

Reviewed in Spain on July 16, 2022

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No lo compres en físico. Si te interesa el contenido cómpralo en digital o búscalo por la red o infórmate en la web oficial de la certificación.
Lo único que en pleno 2022 te pueda empujar a comprar un libro así es la comodidad de tenerlo en físico, sentarte y leerlo tranquilamente.
Pues ese único valor añadido se lo han cargado en la versión en físico. Las hojas son tan finas que se ven las letras y dibujos de las paginas posteriores. La calidad del físico en general es mala tirando a muy mala.
Solo lo recomendaría comprar si lo quieres poner en la librería y que la gente lo vea.
La encuadernación es muy mala con pegamento donde no debería, las hojas están onduladas seguramente de guardarlo en algún sitio con humedad, el papel es finísimo y complica la lectura, las imágenes impresas son de muy baja calidad, las fotos o los dibujos tienen muy poca calidad.
Revisar bien las fotos antes de comprar y si te fue útil dale al botón!