Kevin Bendeler

Kevin Bendeler after working several years with SAFe comments on 7 flaws he noticed in the framework’s adoption:

• In SAFe extensive front-loaded planning encourages ineffective larger batch size work
• Technical debt tends to increase in SAFe organisations
• SAFe Program Increment (PI) cycle time is unfit for teams that need to be responsive
• SAFe roles and structure may discourage teams collaboration that’s an Agile value
• SAFe approaches to estimation is more predictive than empirical as in Agile
• SAFe focus more on output and volume than the value created and delivered
• SAFe doesn’t have enough focus on the feedback loop and related learnings. He concludes by saying he thinks that trying to scale Agile up by applying heavyweight, top-down methodologies is antithetical and counterproductive.

References:

• https://kevinbendeler.medium.com/i-dont-like-safe-9a003773e42c