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We are uncovering better ways of working by doing it and helping others do it. top Premises top Introduction Now that Agile has passed the early adopter stage, many companies are interested in adopting it, and many novice practitioners are interested in learning it. Yet those companies and practitioners without extensive Agile experience have a hard time evaluating what will bring them value and…
If you are running SAFe and it is not delivering what you were promised, the most common explanation offered is that you have not implemented it well enough. More training. A better Release Train Engineer. The next version.
Six organisations adopted the Scaled Agile Framework. This is what happened next, in the terms a board measures. top ANZ Banking Group ANZ Banking Group Rolled out 2016, expanded 2017. Guide → Rolled out from 2016 and expanded across the Australian division from 2017, under a mandate to deliver faster and underpin the bank’s mortgage business.
These are the five responses you are most likely to meet. Each answer points back to the guide, which carries the full account. top “It’s a stepping stone — you have to start somewhere.” Chris Matts Challenges the stepping-stone claim directly. Guide → The framework does not hand back a route onward, and organisations that adopt it do not, in the cases observed, arrive…
The guide invites Scaled Agile Inc. to engage with the community and to act on whatever part of the feedback is useful. That invitation stands, and this page makes it public.
A decision taken without a dissenting view on the record is a weaker decision, however comfortable it feels at the time. Framework adoptions are typically decided on vendor material, vendor case studies and vendor economics, with no organised account of what happened to the organisations that went first.
This guide emerged as a response to the growing adoption of SAFe by organisations lacking deep Agile experience. As Agile moved into the mainstream, decision-makers increasingly relied on vendor marketing and polished case studies, often without access to independent analysis or lessons learned from failed implementations.