            
              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 14 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] heatermcteets@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

I wish I could upvote you more than once