The four #corevalues of alignment, built-in quality, transparency, and program execution represent the #fundamental beliefs that are key to #SAFe’s effectiveness. These guiding principles help dictate behavior and action for everyone who participates in a #SAFePortfolio.

SAFe is based on four primary bodies of knowledge: #Agiledevelopment, #lean product development, systems thinking, and #DevOps. That makes #SAFe broad, deep, and scaleable. But at its core, safe places the highest value on four things: alignment, built-in #quality, #transparency, and program execution.

Alignment is needed to keep pace with fast change, disruptive competitive forces, and geographically distributed teams. While empowered, #Agileteams are good (even great), but the responsibility for #strategy and alignment cannot rest with the combined opinions of the teams, no matter how good they are. Instead, alignment must rely on the #enterprise's #business objectives.

Built-in #quality ensures that every element and every increment of the solution reflects quality standards throughout the #development lifecycle. #Quality is not “added later.” Building quality is a prerequisite of #Lean and flows—without it, the organization will likely operate with large batches of unverified, unvalidated work. Excessive rework and slower velocities are likely results.

Solutiondevelopment is hard. Things go wrong or do not work out as planned. Without openness, facts are obscure and decision-making is based on speculative assumptions and lack of data. No one can fix a secret. To ensure openness—trust is needed. Trust exists when the #business and #development can confidently rely on another to act with integrity, particularly in times of difficulty. Without trust no one can build #highperformance teams and programs, nor build (or rebuild) the confidence needed to make and meet reasonable #commitments. And without trust, working environments are a lot less fun and motivating.

Of course, none of the rest of #SAFe matters if teams can’t execute and continuously deliver value. Therefore, #SAFe places an intense focus on working systems and #business outcomes. History shows us that while many enterprises start the transformation with individual #Agile teams, they often become frustrated as even those teams struggle to deliver more substantial amounts of solution value, reliably and efficiently.

Successful #ScaledLeanAgile development and these four core values require the active support of #LeanAgile leadership and continuous learning culture. Leaders couple these core values with #SAFeLeanAgile principles and practices and an orientation toward creating value for customers. In turn, that creates a persistent and meaningful culture for the teams and their stakeholders.

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