As the popularity of Agile and Lean development methods have grown, the drive to unite these software development practices with Program and Portfolio Management, Quality Assurance, and DevOps has given rise to the Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe. With SAFe, practitioners have found outstanding business benefits, including:
Gartner group reports that Agile Frameworks, like the widely adopted SAFe, are steadily increasing year over year with larger organizations — and that success with using Agile in the enterprise increases the readiness for adopting SAFe.
In this webinar, we discuss the fundamentals of the SAFe methodology and how you can use Polarion ALM now to implement "Essential SAFe" to prepare for full framework adoption. We review a case study of a team using Polarion ALM and SAFe today to produce software effectively and at the pace of market demands.
Get your software planning, requirements, and Agile iterations off the whiteboard and into a global collaboration tool to maximize what your teams can do — and how quickly they can get it done. Polarion ALM becomes the highway for team-oriented Software Development traffic to merge together and travel at the pace of enterprise business.
Essential SAFe is the minimal subset of the Scaled Agile Framework needed to get started — focusing on Team and Program levels with Agile Release Trains (ARTs). It provides the foundational practices without the complexity of Portfolio or Large Solution layers, making it ideal as a starting point for organizations new to SAFe.
Polarion provides built-in work item types, workflows, and planning boards that map directly to SAFe artifacts — from Epics and Features to Stories and PI Objectives. It connects team backlogs to program increments in a single traceable environment, enabling real-time visibility across all levels of the framework.
Organizations using SAFe report 20–50% increases in productivity, 25–75% improvements in quality, and 30–75% faster time-to-market. Polarion accelerates these benefits by providing the collaboration backbone that connects planning, execution, and delivery across distributed teams.