Recently, a colleague of mine complained, “SAFe is so waterfally”. I’ve truly achieved just a few waterfall tasks and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) isn’t comparable. And but, most waterfall tasks I’ve labored on have been much less onerous than SAFe!
The primary typically understood advantage of SAFe is coordinating a doubtlessly vital variety of groups. Or is it? SAFe additionally offers a turnkey approach of getting everybody in control on roles and obligations, program administration, workforce stage exercise, and far more.
Standing up a turnkey administration infrastructure could also be the true purpose SAFe has been so extensively adopted.
And but, this ‘characteristic’ is delivered by way of 13 totally different certifications. Simply the product proprietor cert has nicely over 150 slides of coaching materials. That ensures tons of additional fluff, a few of it dangerous; extra on that beneath. To some dev retailers, the price of all SAFe’s baggage will outweigh its profit.
There’s persistent criticism that SAFe isn’t agile. That’s nicely based given SAFe’s predilection for in depth wrapping round each very last thing, but it surely’s at the very least incremental. Incremental growth consists of constructing in small chunks and studying alongside the best way.
Strip away most of the trappings of Agile, and being incremental is a major a part of its profit.
The Agile camp wouldn’t have vilified SAFe if it have been as a substitute named the Scaled Incremental Framework, however that wouldn’t have been good advertising and marketing. Incremental however deliberate growth is extraordinarily frequent and unquestioned: that’s why we now have roadmaps!
There’s an argument that SAFe allows extra agility at a systemic stage, thus bettering strategic execution. SAFe does deliver the next stage of agility to a store that hasn’t been agile earlier than. Nonetheless, I’ve a former skilled curiosity in software program processes and SAFe is by far…
