This document discusses concerns about scaling agile frameworks like SAFe. It acknowledges fears that SAFe is too rigidly defined and risks undermining agile principles. However, it argues that if implemented carefully with a focus on lean principles, leadership commitment to change, and respect for people and culture, SAFe can provide a reasonable starting point for scaling agile in large complex organizations. The best ways to address fears are to see healthy SAFe implementations in action or take a class on implementing SAFe from an experienced lean/agile trainer.
14. My take on a SAFe value statement…
For Early/late majority software/IT/technology-heavy enterprises
who Develop and maintain LARGE COMPLEX products or services
the Scaled Agile Framework
is a Collection of lean/agile process and implementation best
practices
that Helps these enterprises improve their business agility despite
huge change management and technology/process obstacles in
their context
Unlike Other scaling frameworks that assume the ability and willingness
to drive revolutionary dramatic change in the organization and
mostly ignore current culture and roles in the organization
our solution Is able to provide a reasonable evolutionary starting point to the
business agility journey flexible enough to allow organizations to
evolve towards a truly lean/agile enterprise. It provides people
currently holding roles in the organization a clear mapping to
their new role in the agile enterprise and a path to making this
change.