There are a few frameworks that organizations can use to implement Agile at scale, and SAFe is the most considered and adopted framework for scaling Agile. According to the State of SAFe Report 2025, companies often customize their approach to SAFe, choosing to blend aspects of the SAFe framework with existing operating models and flow-based ways of working.
Regardless of how organizations choose to scale Agile, they need a solution to enhance alignment, transparency, and communication as multiple Agile teams work in tandem. With so many people involved in SAFe events such as PI planning and Agile Release Train (ART) syncs, companies need a way to centralize resources and keep track of work in progress while ensuring that teams are working effectively.
This is where Lucid steps in, providing a way to help teams scale documentation, increase visibility, and share proven ways of working as they accelerate transformation across the business. Read on to learn how Lucid supports the SAFe framework, thanks to powerful capabilities, ready-to-use templates, and features that were built for Agile teams.
Using visual collaboration for the 10 principles of SAFe
As businesses aim to scale Agile, visual collaboration is incredibly useful for implementing SAFe’s guiding principles. By using visual collaboration across your organization, it’s easier to help your organization adopt Lean-Agile thinking as you maintain collaboration across multiple teams, gain insight into work in progress, and identify potential risk.
Agile teams can use Lucid to support the 10 principles of SAFe, including:
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Applying systems thinking. A visual solution helps you map out your organization’s systems and processes, gaining insight into how components are related so you can understand interdependencies, bottlenecks, and other potential problems. Visualizing your system makes it easier to identify areas of improvement.
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Assuming variability and preserving options. Lucid’s capabilities help teams plan multiple options and assume there will be variables so teams can more quickly adapt. A visual solution isn’t static and is kept up to date with the latest information, so it’s easier for teams to see how variability makes an impact and factor change into their plans.
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Making value flow without interruptions by visualizing work in progress and making this work visible to multiple teams and stakeholders. Visual documents like Kanban boards limit work in progress and keep teams focused on their goals as they maintain a manageable cadence.
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Decentralizing decision-making. A visual collaboration solution gives each person an equal opportunity to be heard and empowers individuals closest to the work to provide input. By enhancing strategic decision-making, Lucid helps teams solve problems more quickly to increase their responsiveness and adaptability.
How Lucid supports the SAFe framework
As teams implement Agile at scale, Lucid empowers them to plan and communicate effectively, achieve alignment, and leverage standardized documentation across the organization. Here are the ways that your team can use Lucid to successfully apply the SAFe framework.
Creating a single source of truth
Since SAFe involves multiple cross-functional teams, it’s even more important to have a central repository for resources and documentation so everyone is on the same page. Agile teams can use Lucid as a single source of truth to enhance transparency and alignment, keeping all of their resources in one place.
With team hubs, Lucid makes it easy to centralize documentation. Each team hub in Lucid has a dedicated team space, team roster, and a collection of all relevant documents. People can regard their team hub as a home base for coordination where they discuss work, make decisions together, and stay organized.
In Lucid, designated Agile managers can create team hubs at scale so that everyone in your Agile Release Train (ART) has access to the same resources. It’s easy to create team tags and group teams by initiative. With these features, a release train engineer (RTE) can ensure that everyone across teams remains in sync and quickly gets started with proven ways of working.
By using Lucid, Agile teams easily find the documentation they need, including technical diagrams that are essential to SAFe, such as product roadmaps and architecture diagrams, and continue their work without missing a beat.
Managing an ART backlog
It’s no small task for product managers to map out the features that will ultimately be delivered by the ATR and oversee work to be done by multiple teams. PMs can create and manage ART backlogs in Lucid, visualizing and prioritizing features for the whole train while ensuring that each team executes the right work to deliver those features.
Product managers often use a Kanban system, showing work that’s completed, in progress, and to be done. Customizable Kanban templates in Lucid help PMs visualize PI objectives and enhance transparency on work in progress for each team. With intelligent features such as Dynamic Tables and conditional formatting, PMs can organize features by team and streamline their Agile planning.
