Flow

The movement of value through a system with minimal waste, delay, and interruption.

Central to SAFe (Flow Accelerators, SAFe Principle #6) and Lean. Less explicit in Scrum and Nexus; LeSS invokes it through queueing theory.

Across the Frameworks

Scrum

Implicit

Concept present but not named.

SAFe

Native

Formal, with metrics.

LeSS

Native

Via Queueing Theory principle.

Nexus

Implicit

Concept present but not named.

Present in Scrum, SAFe, LeSS, Nexus.