Breaking the SAFe Season 1
Season 1 of Breaking the SAFe: an honest exploration of where SAFe implementations go wrong and what practitioners can do to course-correct before the transformation stalls.
SAFe + Scaled Agile
Mastering Agility Podcast - Lean Portfolio Management and OKRs with Yuval Yeret
Lean Portfolio Management and OKRs together: how strategic objectives connect to portfolio investment decisions, and what makes OKRs useful at the portfolio level.
Should SAFe Strategic Themes include gradable Key Results?
SAFe Strategic Themes are not OKRs — and treating them like OKRs creates confusion. When to use gradable Key Results vs directional strategic themes in SAFe.
Deconstructing SAFe Criticism - Focusing on the SPC role
A SAFe Fellow's honest analysis of the most common SAFe criticisms — what's fair, what's FUD, and how the SPC certification model contributes to implementation theater.
SAFe Product Owner vs Product Manager: Scaling Product Ownership with Scrum
SAFe splits product ownership between Product Manager and Product Owner. This guide explores the tradeoffs, common failure modes, and practical ways to make it work.
· KanbanWorking towards Sustainable Pace in Scrum, SAFe and Kanban
Sustainable pace is a core agile principle that often gets sacrificed in enterprise implementations. How Scrum, SAFe, and Kanban each approach the problem.