As the popularity of Agile and Lean development methods have grown, the drive to unite these practices with Program and Portfolio Management, Quality Assurance, and DevOps has given rise to the Scaled Agile Framework — SAFe. With SAFe, practitioners have found outstanding business benefits:
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 readiness for adopting SAFe. It allows the benefits of Agile to plug into the full business execution of enterprise Software Development and IT infrastructure.
In this webinar, we discuss some of 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 live 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. Polarion ALM becomes the highway for team-oriented Software Development traffic to merge together and travel at the pace of enterprise business.
An Agile Release Train is a long-lived team of Agile teams (typically 50–125 people) that incrementally develops, delivers, and operates one or more solutions in a value stream. The ART aligns teams to a common mission through Program Increment (PI) Planning and provides the organizational structure for scaling Agile beyond individual teams.
Polarion supports ART organization through project grouping, shared backlogs, and cross-team planning views. You configure team-level spaces with their own iterations while connecting them to a program-level PI cadence — giving each team autonomy while maintaining alignment to shared objectives and dependencies.
PI Planning is a cadence-based, face-to-face event where all ART teams plan their work for the next increment (typically 8–12 weeks). Polarion supports this with real-time backlog management, dependency visualization, capacity planning, and objective tracking — enabling distributed teams to participate effectively and maintain the plan as a living artifact.