{"id":705,"date":"2018-09-25T15:04:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T13:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agilerasmus.com\/wordpress\/?p=705"},"modified":"2018-09-25T15:04:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T13:04:20","slug":"strangled-by-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agilerasmus.com\/wordpress\/strangled-by-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Strangled by SAFe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some cases SAFe will strangle the agility of your organisation. To ensure a &#8220;non-strangling&#8221; implementation we sought inspiration from LEGO, Arla and BEC to learn from their successes and failures with SAFe. This combined with our own experience gave the following attention points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SAFe encourages &#8220;top-down&#8221; break down of Epics, Features and Enablers. We want to activate and involve teams and product owners.<\/li>\n<li>PI Planning seeks to uncover dependencies and create joint forecasts to be updated when executing<\/li>\n<li>WSJF (weighted shortest job first) is used for &#8220;sanity checks&#8221; and not the sole source of priority<\/li>\n<li>DevOps responsibility (development, maintenance and product responsibility) stays with the team<\/li>\n<li>No cross-team normalisation of story points<\/li>\n<li>Technical upgrades are facilitated by the System Architect<\/li>\n<li>Retrospective and feedback sessions on all levels<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We started our ambitious plan for Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) earlier this summer. The initial setup was 10 teams that all develop solutions to the same customer value stream. 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