Ohhh thanks for the "Cheers!", Joan! Our carajillo but online! Made my day! 🥰 And come on, you are only starting and have so many great value videos! keep up the good work!
Excellent video, thanks for keeping it quite objective. I totally agree with the conclusion about culture and attitude having more to do with success than the chosen framework. In addition, I would like to add that from your previous video, you skillfully tried to nuance where each framework has the right advantage within the agile context emphasis being on "scale" in safe. If you would like to know my thoughts, I definitely agree with your thoughts, in addition, I feel scrum can and should be used within SAFE if and where possible especially because I feel scrum helps to develop the culture and attitude needed for successful agile delivery. Whether SAFe practices tend to stifle agile is yet to be confirmed as I have not worked within SAFe, which led me to your videos. But my question to you is in an effective scrum team that is able to hit targets before the end of the Quarterly Safe meeting for example. Does this mean they will be doing nothing before the next quarterly SAFe meeting or does the SAFe framework have a prescription for this eventuality?
Ha! This is an interesting question. I'm not sure what a SAFe theoretician would respond. My take is that the Scrum team should be self-managed and given they work on strategic goals of the company they should be able to define what to do meanwhile. Do some more product discovery? Deliver an experiment? Work on hmthe technical debt that enables the strategic goals? All in all, I've never seen that happen, usually it's more about "Where do we need to cut the corners?" 😅
Agile methods used to be a thing engineering teams did internally when it was helpful. And sometimes we did it informally (like go to coffee and talk about challenges (blockers) to solicit ideas instead of a worthless DSU). Agile with SAFe has now become professionalized and exhausting and lame. It's become almost an academic exercise where SMs, POs, Agile coaches, RTEs have created an ecosystem where the whole point has become adherence to its processes. The point of Agile has become doing Agile. And the time spent in isolated Jira boards is excessively wasteful. (At least tools like Azure DevOps have a full suite of planning, testing, repos, pipelines, etc. built-in to a single seamless experience. Standalone Jira is especially suspect to me.) But leadership in many companies drunk the Kool-Ade after listening to an army of consultants and now all of Jonestown is being poisoned.
How on point! I subscribe to this quote"It's become almost an academic exercise." Was thinking about it today how painful and exhausting was learning in an academic way and you are right, we bring it back for people with SAFe. Bureaucracy and pain
Have you thought about getting opinions from established Agilist that are not anti-SAFe to give a rebuttal? Could be fun and nice to have the views all in one place.
Hey, yes I did. That was actually my intention to do so in this video but then I thought, can we even trust the opinions of people who earn by teaching, training and implementing SAFe? I don't think that's an unbiased opinion. Not to mention the bore ;-)
Amazing video! Honored that you used one of my articles to discuss the Undercover Waterfall Agent, the one killing all chances of being agile. Management love, product folks hate. Resulting in massive turnover :)
Thanks, David! Glad you liked it because I used a lot of your ideas about SAFe. Your article "Why SAFe is the safest choice to fail with Agile" was so funny that it could only go well :-)
Damn Maria, too much fun for a nerdy guy like me! Again, thank you! Fortunately, I've not had to battle with SAFe, but your take is informative and entertaining. Thank you for your videos. As a bestowed scrum master, I look to your material to help improve my approach to sprints, and what each team deliver and get from them. Of course, your charm has absolutely nothing to do with it ;) I look forward to your next instalment.
Ohhh 🥰🥰🥰 Thank you for this, means a lot to me! It is so great to hear my content can actually help others in their daily challenges as Scrum Masters. I'm stoked you got entertained too! Btw, lucky you to have avoided the SAFe journey!
It is an amazing video to watch! I enjoyed it and it was fun! You are a really good content creator, unlike myself 😂😂
Ohhh thanks for the "Cheers!", Joan! Our carajillo but online! Made my day! 🥰 And come on, you are only starting and have so many great value videos! keep up the good work!
Excellent video, thanks for keeping it quite objective. I totally agree with the conclusion about culture and attitude having more to do with success than the chosen framework. In addition, I would like to add that from your previous video, you skillfully tried to nuance where each framework has the right advantage within the agile context emphasis being on "scale" in safe. If you would like to know my thoughts, I definitely agree with your thoughts, in addition, I feel scrum can and should be used within SAFE if and where possible especially because I feel scrum helps to develop the culture and attitude needed for successful agile delivery. Whether SAFe practices tend to stifle agile is yet to be confirmed as I have not worked within SAFe, which led me to your videos. But my question to you is in an effective scrum team that is able to hit targets before the end of the Quarterly Safe meeting for example. Does this mean they will be doing nothing before the next quarterly SAFe meeting or does the SAFe framework have a prescription for this eventuality?
Ha! This is an interesting question. I'm not sure what a SAFe theoretician would respond. My take is that the Scrum team should be self-managed and given they work on strategic goals of the company they should be able to define what to do meanwhile. Do some more product discovery? Deliver an experiment? Work on hmthe technical debt that enables the strategic goals?
All in all, I've never seen that happen, usually it's more about "Where do we need to cut the corners?" 😅
Agile methods used to be a thing engineering teams did internally when it was helpful. And sometimes we did it informally (like go to coffee and talk about challenges (blockers) to solicit ideas instead of a worthless DSU). Agile with SAFe has now become professionalized and exhausting and lame. It's become almost an academic exercise where SMs, POs, Agile coaches, RTEs have created an ecosystem where the whole point has become adherence to its processes. The point of Agile has become doing Agile. And the time spent in isolated Jira boards is excessively wasteful. (At least tools like Azure DevOps have a full suite of planning, testing, repos, pipelines, etc. built-in to a single seamless experience. Standalone Jira is especially suspect to me.)
But leadership in many companies drunk the Kool-Ade after listening to an army of consultants and now all of Jonestown is being poisoned.
How on point! I subscribe to this quote"It's become almost an academic exercise." Was thinking about it today how painful and exhausting was learning in an academic way and you are right, we bring it back for people with SAFe. Bureaucracy and pain
Have you thought about getting opinions from established Agilist that are not anti-SAFe to give a rebuttal? Could be fun and nice to have the views all in one place.
Hey, yes I did. That was actually my intention to do so in this video but then I thought, can we even trust the opinions of people who earn by teaching, training and implementing SAFe? I don't think that's an unbiased opinion. Not to mention the bore ;-)
Amazing video! Honored that you used one of my articles to discuss the Undercover Waterfall Agent, the one killing all chances of being agile. Management love, product folks hate. Resulting in massive turnover :)
Thanks, David! Glad you liked it because I used a lot of your ideas about SAFe. Your article "Why SAFe is the safest choice to fail with Agile" was so funny that it could only go well :-)
Damn Maria, too much fun for a nerdy guy like me! Again, thank you! Fortunately, I've not had to battle with SAFe, but your take is informative and entertaining.
Thank you for your videos. As a bestowed scrum master, I look to your material to help improve my approach to sprints, and what each team deliver and get from them. Of course, your charm has absolutely nothing to do with it ;)
I look forward to your next instalment.
Ohhh 🥰🥰🥰 Thank you for this, means a lot to me! It is so great to hear my content can actually help others in their daily challenges as Scrum Masters. I'm stoked you got entertained too! Btw, lucky you to have avoided the SAFe journey!
Great videos! I'm trying to deploy it now in a large enterprise and getting plenty of pushback. Your videos provide good insights.
Very glad to see this! Thanks, Sean!
I love this video! 😂 So well done.