Books by Richard Knaster

To succeed in today's adapt-or-die marketplace, businesses must be able to rapidly change the way they create and deliver value to their customers. Hundreds of the world's most successful companies-including Intel, Capital One, AstraZeneca, Cisco, and Philips-have turned to the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) to achieve agility at scale and maintain a competitive edge. SAFe® 5.0 Distilled: Achieving Business Agility with the Scaled Agile Framework® explains how adopting SAFe can quickly improve time to market and increase productivity, quality, and employee engagement. In this book, students will Understand the business case for SAFe: its benefits, the problems it solves, and how to apply itGet an overview of SAFe across all parts of the business: team, program, value stream, and portfolioLearn why SAFe works: the power of SAFe's Lean-Agile mindset, values, and principlesDiscover how systems thinking, Agile development, and Lean product development form the underlying basis for SAFeLearn how to become a Lean-Agile leader and effectively drive an enterprise-wide transformation