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I'm currently a year into a role as Lead SRE in team working in SAFe. We plan five 2 week sprints for which we immediately write off 50% of our time as "BAU ac
by ButterWashed 4y ago
I'm currently a year into a role as Lead SRE in team working in SAFe. We plan five 2 week sprints for which we immediately write off 50% of our time as "BAU activities" and the rest of our time is spent lurching from one deliverable to another in the hope we actually achieve something before we get "re-prioritised" yet another time. It's not even SRE, it's 2nd line support and platform engineering.
I really have no idea how SAFe works or how it's meant to work, but everyone seems happy so long as I complete my JIRA tickets on time because that's what the users want.
- ethbr0 4y agoI worked for a SAFe company like that once. Took a salary cut for another job. Haven't regretted the choice for a second: life's too short to waste one's talent in service to a bad employer.
- BizarreByte 4y agoI don't know if we claim to use SAFe were I work, but this sounds very similar to my experience. It frustrates me to no end, but as a contractor I don't get a say and the full time employees seem to be okay with the status quo. I am constantly amazed that any working software comes out of such a process, but against all odds it does.