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I swear someone created SAFe as a joke by just taking the strawman waterfall diagram and adding scrum words, and sprinkle in a few more useless people for good
by ryathal 4y ago
I swear someone created SAFe as a joke by just taking the strawman waterfall diagram and adding scrum words, and sprinkle in a few more useless people for good measure. It also ensures that anyone that needs to actually talk or work together is far to busy to achieve progress.
- bitwize 4y agoYou are exactly correct, except: 1) it was RUP, not waterfall (RUP is basically many waterfalls in parallel) 2) they were dead fucking serious.
- sidewndr46 4y agoIs "RUP" Rational Unified Process here?
- bitwize 4y agoYes
- wpietri 4y agoI think that's pretty close except for the joke part. The early-days problem with the Agile movement was that it promised actual change by empowering the line workers to actually get things done for users by shipping early and often. That was an intolerable threat to industrial-age managerial power structures, to which waterfall is an ideal that justifies lots of management control. But since then it's been gradually watered down and tamed. Scrum's certification scam was the start of that, and SAFe strikes me as the end result: lots of Agile jargon with the rigidity of waterfall, providing long-term safety to managers in large companies everywhere. I wrote about this dynamic before SAFe existed, but it seems to fit right in with what I described: https://williampietri.com/writing/2011/agiles-second-chasm-and-how-we-fell-in/ https://williampietri.com/writing/2011/agiles-second-chasm-a...
- tharkun__ 4y agoYou hit the nail on the head and posted just before I would've. The only thing I can add to that directly here is this: Just look at the acronym itself! It tells those managers at Big Corp that it is finally safe to implement Agile!