The Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe as it is more widely known is very popular in larger, more traditional, organisations. It is also widely disliked by long-term agile practitioners and agile experts, including some of those that defined what Agile means in the context of software. So what is the Scaled Agile Framework, and why is it popular with traditional orgs, and disliked by agile experts? SAFe describes lots of practices and roles like scaled agile product owner, scaled agile deployment pipelines and release trains and it is a big seller of SAFe agile training and accreditation programmes.

In this episode, Dave Farley, long-time agile practitioner and author of best-selling books “Continuous Delivery”, “Modern Software Engineering” and “CD Deployment Pipelines” explores what SAFe is, asks if it can achieve what it sets out to achieve - is it safe?

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🖇 LINKS:

“Scaled Agile Framework” ➡️ https://scaledagile.com

“Flaccid Scrum”, Martin Fowler ➡️ https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Flacci...

“SAFe Experience Reports” ➡️ https://scaledagile.com/insights-cust...

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