B2B tech vendors struggle to map SAFe's Operational Value Streams to their context. A practical guide to how vendors should organize around customer value without distorting their product development structure.
Nexus and SAFe are both scaled Scrum approaches — but they make very different tradeoffs. A side-by-side comparison of what each gets right and where each struggles.
An updated pandemic-era take on running the Spotify Squad Health Check virtually — Kahoot integration, facilitation tips, and how to extend it beyond squads to tribes and ARTs.
The wrong reasons people sign up for SAFe SPC certification — and what you should actually expect to get out of an Implementing SAFe workshop if you attend with the right mindset.
SAFe implementations often under-develop team-level Scrum discipline. How Professional Scrum training and coaching strengthens the foundation that SAFe programs are built on.
SAFe estimations can become a compliance theater of story points and capacity planning. An alternative approach focused on flow-based forecasting and probabilistic delivery.