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Guardrails

SAFe Lean Budget Guardrails — policies governing how value streams spend their budget.

Example guardrails: capacity allocation to Enablers vs Business items, Epic approval thresholds.

Across the Frameworks

Scrum
Absent

No equivalent in this framework.

SAFe
Native

Defined by this framework.

LeSS
Absent

No equivalent in this framework.

Nexus
Absent

No equivalent in this framework.

Related Terms

Present in SAFe.