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There is no cookie-cutter approach or blueprint that will result in your company being successful. SAFe is the death star plan that will ultimately be your demise.
๐๐ช๐ต๐ฃ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ด ๐ถ๐ด๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ด ๐ข ๐ค๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ ๐ค๐ข๐ด๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐๐๐๐ฆ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ช๐ต๐ด ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ฏ 2016, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ง๐ง๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ช๐ค ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ต๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ. ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐บ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ฆ๐ณ๐ท๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ค๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ด.
SAFe may well have worked somewhere, built iteratively and incrementally from scratch inside a single company. However, there is no way to be successful at scale using someone else process, essentially copying their homework for a different assignment. Every company is unique because of the niche that it grew to fill. Those unique niches were slow-moving in the past, allowing the ability to change to atrophy and eventually become stagnant. This stagnation is organisational cruft or, more commonly, bureaucracy. The pace of change is relentlessly increasing, and your organisational cruft is slowing you down.
๐ฌ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ป๐โ๐ ๐๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฑ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐ฏ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐๐ฎ๐ป๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐บ๐ถ๐ฐ, ๐ณ๐ฎ๐๐-๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐บ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ธ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐.
You need to allow the right practices to emerge over time and build a unique set of systems that allow you to maintain your niche and adapt to new niches as they arise. Leadership, not Management will help you get there.
โValue is the real goal. In these increasingly uncertain times, having the technical excellence and business flexibility to quickly and deliberately respond to change will be the differentiator between the business that thrive and those that struggle to survive. The forced adaptations from Covid demonstrated the need to trust and empower your people. How will monolithic bureaucratic practices support that?โ โ Simon Reindl
A leaderโs job is to foster a lean-agile mindset and then get out of the way and allow folks to get the work done.
๐ฆ๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐:
- The Results of Companies Migrating to heavy-weight Scaled Frameworks and off-the-shelf platforms
- How large successful companies achieve agility at scale.
- USAF Memorandum: Preferred Agile Framework
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