SAFe is a structured Agile approach for coordinating software development across large organizations. In financial technology, it connects business commitments, regulatory changes, and development work through planned increments and smaller delivery cycles. section 1.3 section 1.6
A SAFe planning cycle organizes work from broad commitments into deliverable pieces:
- A program increment (PI) is an 8-to-12-week timebox, usually containing four iterations. section 1.3
- Each iteration, commonly called a sprint, typically lasts two weeks, although teams may choose a different duration. section 1.3
- PI Planning begins with a yearly product roadmap showing business commitments, regulatory changes, and company initiatives. section 1.3
- Teams break roadmap commitments into epics, then divide those larger initiatives or projects into user stories. section 1.3
Planning an ACH project
Futuristic FinTech uses SAFe while building an ACH payment project. A PI Planning session can align the payment roadmap with regulatory changes, express major delivery areas as epics, and divide them into user stories for short development cycles. section 1.2.1 section 1.3
