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Our company used SAFe. There is no provision to create actual specification. Things are planned, but there is no time allocated to it in the process. Work items
by js8 4y ago
Our company used SAFe. There is no provision to create actual specification. Things are planned, but there is no time allocated to it in the process. Work items somehow magically appear to be ready in the work queue for developers to work on them, with only acceptance criteria.
- brightball 4y agoFrom the comment it's hard for me to understand exactly what you experienced, but Architecture is a very specific roll within SAFe. One of the biggest aspects is to avoid "Big Up Front Design" or essentially over-engineering things when you probably don't have all of the information yet. This carries across multiple aspects of SAFe and usually creates conflict in people who want to be handed a complete specification. For some people, it's a mindset change. For me, it makes sense. I don't want to be handed a complete spec written by other people. I want to be handed a best guess with requirements that I, as the person who will be implementing it, can refine, provide feedback, ask questions and help get to a better implementation. It assumes the people closest to the problem space (you) will have the best understanding of how to solve the problem.