>> I was blown away at how effective it was. Once a quarter, we had a 3-day event in which the entire next 3 months were planned out Yep, you get this, a 13 we

>> I was blown away at how effective it was. Once a quarter, we had a 3-day event in which the entire next 3 months were planned out Yep, you get this, a 13 week PLAN. Just adopting plan-old maligned waterfall can give you a plan lasting years! Unfortunately software development teams are supposed to deliver more than plans. You can totally do quarterly planning without SAFe, cross-team colaboration can be achieved, and having teams spend time digging into future work is immensly valuable. SAFe leeches from these positives without actually enhancing them, while adding an imense amount of overhead and real costs.