Sam Haynes

Sam Haynes, based on his observations of SAFe implementations thinks that:

• SAFe’s ask for excessive time to developers for estimations and metrics is demotivating
• SAFe requirement of starting by getting everyone SAFe trained and certified is suspicious
• SAFe “branded agile” risk to discredit genuine Agile
• PI Planning tries to manage dependencies instead of having a loosely coupled architecture
• PI Planning cadence doesn’t allow to timely react/adapt to changing customer needs
• PI Planning and Release Trains are inferior to on-demand planning and Continuous Delivery. He wonders why anyone with a genuine Agile mindset would be using SAFe in the first place.

References:

• https://levelup.gitconnected.com/safe-a-waterfall-pig-with-agile-lipstick-dd13a200b008