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 problem you describe here is real... but is SAFe the problem or is it that the sorts of long timeline, lots of contributors projects are just exceedingly difficult to run in a way that respects and protects the agency of all resources? I'd love to blame a framework, but it strikes me the problem is that no framework can save anyone from the dangers of high complexity.