SAFe · pillar 2 of 6
The Agile Release Train
The organising unit. Not a team, not a project, and not temporary.
- 4 A long-lived team of Agile teams The Agile Release Train (ART) is a long-lived team of Agile teams that incrementally develops, delivers and often…
- 5 Long-lived is the load-bearing word The train is long-lived. Teams and people stay on it across Planning Intervals; work flows to the train rather than a…
- 6 The Agile Team is still ten or fewer Inside the train, an Agile Team is a cross-functional group of typically ten or fewer people with all the skills to…
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