Critiquing the Scaled Agile Framework, With Relevance for Followers of Any Process

Lee Fischman
Product Coalition
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8 min readOct 5, 2023

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Recently, a colleague of mine complained, “SAFe is so waterfally”. I’ve actually done a few waterfall projects and the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is not comparable. And yet, most waterfall projects I’ve worked on were less onerous than SAFe!

Criticisms of the agile main battle tank known as SAFe have been made before (see…

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