Agile at Scale (SAFe)

The Scaled Agile Framework promised to bring startup agility to enterprises but in practice added so many ceremonies, roles, and planning layers that it became the very bureaucracy Agile was invented to escape. It is 50% slower than the typical lightweight Agile approach, and according to a 2023 survey, 70% of SAFe implementations failed to meet their agility goals, making it more cumbersome than the #10 ranked Lean Project Management strategy.