Scrum vs Safe

Scrum Vs SAFe® (Differences)

After looking at the similarities between SAFe® and Scrum, you must be wondering if there could be any differences between SAFe® and Scrum. Even though there are differences, they are at the implementation level and not at the foundation level.

Below is a list of notable differences between SAFe® and Scrum:

Scrum	SAFe
Scrum is adopted by the small self-organizing agile Teams.	SAFe can be adopted by the enterprise as a whole having large teams of agile teams.
The Scrum framework consists of Scrum Teams and roles, events, artifacts, and rules.	The SAFe framework consists of agile teams, teams of agile teams, large solutions teams, and lean portfolio management, roles events, artifacts, and rules.
You can start working with scrum with three development team members and SM and PO	To start with SAFe, you need to start with Essential SAFe which has 50+ members strong Agile Release Train has 5+ agile teams in it.
Scrum is a lightweight framework and addresses teams’ concerns related to product development.	SAFe is a comprehensive framework targeted to enable Business Agility of an enterprise and addresses, team, teams of teams, large solutions, and lean portfolio management.
Scrum has team level roles like SM, PO and Dev Team member	SAFe has team level, teams of team’s level, large solution level and portfolio level roles, for example, RTE, System Architect, Epic Owner, Product Management, Solution Train Engineer and many more
Scrum works best when used by companies with a simple organizational structure.	SAFe enables large enterprises to expand the “Agile Way of Working” beyond the teams.

Conclusion

As can be seen from the above discussion that Scrum and SAFe® are both products of the same Agile and Lean Principles and that is the reason for the similarities between the two. The only differences are at the implementation level where Scrum is implemented among smaller teams and SAFe® is implemented at an Enterprise level where there are 50+ team members and multiple agile teams working in tandem to develop various solutions.

If you were confused about how and when to implement Scrum and SAFe® then hope you have got clarity through this article. If you have any questions, please post it in the comment section.