After working as a Software Developer for 14 years now, Scaled Agile / SAFe / Enterprise Agile is the best methodology I have seen if your plan is to burn out your teams as fast as possible.

Combining short sprints with long-term-planning while taking away autonomy from the team is not agile, it is just a lot of unmovable fucking deadlines in short succession.

@javahippie The only circumstances where I’ve seen Agile implemented true to its values is at the one-team level where the leaders were in a position to shield the team from middle management or the C suite from destroying the psychological safety necessary for continual improvement conversations. Everything else has been the “check writing” version of Agile.