{"id":1640,"date":"2020-01-25T19:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-25T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/?p=1640"},"modified":"2025-02-16T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T16:38:49","slug":"mapping-p4-to-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/mapping-p4-to-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping SAFe to P4"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Scaled Agile Framework and P4 have some commonalioties. On this page we want to contrast the terms of the two frameworks and translate them where possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
SAFe<\/strong><\/td>\nAbr.<\/strong><\/td>\nP4<\/strong><\/td>\nAbr.<\/strong><\/td>\nDescription<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Agile Release Train<\/td>\nART<\/td>\nCluster<\/td>\n<\/td>\nGroup of teams (team-of-teams) that share a common responsibility, e.g. a product line. It is sometimes referred to as a “value stream” as well<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Program Increment (SAFe4), Planning Increment (SAFe5), Planning Interval (SAFe6)<\/td>\nPI<\/td>\nCycle<\/td>\n<\/td>\nBig timebox (mostly 10 to 12 weeks), subdevided in Iterations\/Sprints<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Release Train Engineer<\/td>\nRTE<\/td>\nCluster Scrum Master<\/td>\nCSM<\/td>\nThe “Scrum Master” role on ART\/Cluster level<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Program Backlog<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCluster Backlog<\/td>\n<\/td>\nThe Program Backlog in SAFe is the backlog of multiple teams.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
System Demo<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCluster Review<\/td>\n<\/td>\nThe System Demo in SAFe is the Review\/Demo on the evelo of multiple teams (when those teams are working on the same system)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Product Manager<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCluster Product Owner, Business Owner<\/td>\nCPO<\/td>\nSAFe reuses the classical role of Product Management as kind of a “Chief Product Owner” on the ART\/Cluster level.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
System Architect\/Engineer<\/td>\n<\/td>\nCluster System Engineer<\/td>\nCSE<\/td>\nHighes technical role within the Cluster<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Enterprise Architect<\/td>\n<\/td>\nPortfolio Architect<\/td>\nPFA<\/td>\nHighes technical role within the organization<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Enterprise Management<\/td>\n<\/td>\nPortfolio Owner<\/td>\nPFO<\/td>\nHighes business role within the organization<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Improvement Stories<\/td>\n<\/td>\nImprovement Backlog Items<\/td>\nIBI<\/td>\nBacklog items of orananizational improvements on the level of Team, Cluster or Orgamiozation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lean Agile Center of Excellence<\/td>\nLACE<\/td>\nCluster Scrum Master Group<\/td>\nCSMG<\/td>\nThe Cluster Scrum Master Group forms the association of all (Cluster) Scrum Masters of the organization.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scaled Agile Framework and P4 have some commonalioties. On this page we want to contrast the terms of the two frameworks and translate them where possible. SAFe Abr. P4 Abr. Description Agile Release Train ART Cluster Group of teams (team-of-teams) that share a common responsibility, e.g. a product line. It is sometimes referred to…","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[530],"tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.10.10","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1640"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4903,"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1640\/revisions\/4903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4dev.hardscrum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}