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SAFe

The Pragmatic Embedded Podcast · 11 Dec 2024 · 42m

What this episode covers

Jeff Gable and Luca D'Agostino discuss the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), a methodology for applying agile principles to large enterprises with thousands of employees, such as automotive and aerospace companies. Luca, a Safe Practice Consultant, explains SAFe's structure of release trains and solution trains, while critiquing its heavy bureaucracy, commercialization, and tendency to create a 'black hole' that absorbs other methodologies without providing sufficient practical guidance. They highlight common implementation failures, particularly the difficulty of changing organizational culture and budgeting models, and suggest that successful adoption requires treating SAFe as a starting point to be heavily customized rather than a rigid dogma.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Boeing, BMW, Volvo, Bosch, Walmart
Products
Honda Odyssey
Also
Scaled Agile Framework, Flight Levels, Klaus Leopold, Ryan Finster, Scaled Agile DevOps Maturity Framework

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