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I like this take on SAFe. Steve Denning has great talks about what agile is, and what it is not. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2019/05/23/understan
by 29athrowaway 4y ago
I like this take on SAFe. Steve Denning has great talks about what agile is, and what it is not.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2019/05/23/understanding-fake-agile/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2019/05/23/underst...
The SAFe training is predominantly a bunch of pointless games, marketing, and baseless claims. Leaving all that aside, it's just fake agile.
- synu 4y agoIt’s agile for companies that absolutely do not want to adopt agile but want to be able to tell their (prospective) employees that they have.
- 29athrowaway 4y agoThat is a nice way to describe it. SAFe puts a bunch of layers between you and the customer. Agile is about removing layers between you and the customer.
- ResearchCode 4y agoAre employees looking for "agile" companies? Seems more like a red flag for micromanagement nowadays.
- synu 4y agoMy personal experience is that, while you’re absolutely right for startups, large multinationals and companies that don’t see themselves as necessarily tech-first still use it as a selling point. I don’t know if it is effective to do so or not, but I do see it highlighted on job ads/recruiting landing pages.
- 29athrowaway 4y agoBetter to be micromanaged by 1 person than 10.