🔒 The Great Simplification

Do you want to break free from the weight of heavyweight frameworks and rediscovering what agility actually feels like?

The SAFe Reality

When I joined this company as a consultant in mid 2019, they were deep into their SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) implementation. They had ARTs (Agile Release Trains), PI Planning sessions and plenty of documentation and templates.

The walls were covered with SAFe posters (some of them I kept as a memento). People spoke in Program Increment timelines and Value Stream. Every quarter, the teams would have a big two-day PI Planning event where every team under the Agile Release trains would gather to plan the next 10 weeks down to the story level.

I have to be honest: it looked impressive, coordinated, enterprise-grade. It could have been one of the best implementation of SAFe I’ve personally encountered. But something wasn’t right.