Luca Minudel

Luca Minudel analyses various aspects of the framework and comments on their practical implications noting that:

• The 12-step SAFe Implementation Roadmap is like a 1-size-fits-all Waterfall programme
• SAFe Budgeting and Portfolio management don’t solve the problems of annual budgeting and planning due to the prescriptive, top-down, rigid nature of most SAFe implementations
• SAFe Requirements Model is a pre-Agile deliverable-oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work mirroring the hierarchy of the roles in SAFe, it reinforces a top-down approach
• SAFe Roles add more bureaucracy, disempower the teams, and make collaboration harder
• PI Planning hinders business-tech collaboration, accommodates dependencies instead of removing them, and perpetuates a top-down pre-Agile approach
• Release Trains is a very inefficient pre-Agile practice inferior to all the modern alternatives
• Overly complicated SAFe contradicts the Agile principle of simplicity and emergence Following his observations, he concludes that SAFe violates all four Agile values.

References:

• https://www.smharter.com/blog/2020/06/17/my-opinion-on-the-scaled-agile-frameworks-and-safe-and-related-facts/