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 I've seen it work on close-ended time-bound projects under 6mos or extremely discrete features. Anywhere there's an end that is tangible, where you can take stock and say "we did this!"

Maintenance, continual improvement, or incremental long-horizon product work? Hard agree.