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SAFe is not about software development or planning. SAFe is about funding software development in a cost center. I haven't seen anyone address how to do the acc
by csours 4y ago
SAFe is not about software development or planning. SAFe is about funding software development in a cost center. I haven't seen anyone address how to do the accounting for software development for a large organization, where that software is not being sold for money.
- ethbr0 4y agoInternal billing + discretionary "keep the lights on" budgeting? It has its flaws, but it's not the worst approach.
- roguecoder 4y agoYou are absolutely right about the short-sighted problems created by incompetent finance models. I've seen two successful approaches in practice. The first is vertically integrated companies using easily-measured labor-saving techniques like ML to justify the infrastructure costs required to support those innovations. And the second is places where workers have the institutional power to advocate for investment in the tools they have to use. It seems to me that there should be an effective strategy where we treat software as capital spending that gets appropriately depreciated, but mostly what I see is finance departments trying to micro-manage development and in the process costing their company a lot of money.