            
              Spending a day or more every quarter/half sorting out your roadmap, prioritising stakeholder needs, tech debt and enhancements
Someone from senior leadership decides they want random thing they invented and blows the roadmap up
Much wanted feature (X) or issue gets pushed back
CEO makes a comment in a company wide meeting how they can't understand why we simply can't do X thing yet
Everyone in Product scrambles to make X a priority
Go to step 1

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My company used to do SAFe, which is supposed to be "scalable agile". By "scalable", they mean you take up half a sprint every quarter to do a big waterfall plan.

Too many in management believed their jobs depended on keeping this system. We slowly whittled them away until we stopped doing it entirely. Whatever you might think about "Extreme Programming" or "Agile" being primarily a way to sell books and overpriced training seminars, SAFe is only that. It has no other purpose.

[–] dermanus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We have SAFe at my office too. It seems to me that it's just a way to say you're agile while still being waterfall.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago

We also do SAFe, I think they buy it for the name. We're reasonably agile except we don't choose our work, our input on feature sizing is ignored, we get told off for failing to deliver on time, we're not encouraged to demo work to business

At least we do have scrum masters and sometimes product owners and work vaguely to sprints

Test is the least agile as they have an 80 page document on how to document testing and it's impossible for them to have admin done in time to actually start testing until sprint 2. Since we went to using Git, build is unlikely to finish anything quickly as the automated unit tests are time consuming

I have been a scrum master and it's almost fun in that role to try to make a team more agile

[–] heatermcteets@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I wish I could upvote you more than once