How to Customize Your SAFe for the AI Age
Most of your scaling apparatus is now optional. Your first principles are not. A companion for leaders running SAFe while adopting AI-native, spec-driven development, and trying to tell the difference.
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What Happens to Your Scaled Agile Ways of Working When You Adopt an Agentic SDLC?
Your scaling mechanisms were a choice: coordination overhead that was worth it at the time. AI has not changed the physics of coordination. But it is like going to a planet with different gravity, so you need to adjust how you walk.
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How ARAS Software Is Agile About Scaling Agile
How ARAS Software scaled from startup to 60+ engineers with SAFe, then moved past it when rigid PI Planning started dragging on throughput and innovation.
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Upgrade Your SMB's Operating System, Keep Agility
Growth is supposed to feel like acceleration. For most 50-500 person companies it feels like wading through mud. Four traps that slow scaling companies down.
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Deconstructing SAFe's Intent, Design Choices, Strengths, Weaknesses and Controversies
Is SAFe good? Is SAFe agile? As a SAFe Fellow and Professional Scrum Trainer, I break down SAFe's real strengths, weaknesses, and controversies using my own words from the Breaking the SAFe series.
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· AgilityWhy Do So Many Business Transformations Flop?
Most transformation programs fail not because people resist change, but because they're run like projects instead of learning systems. Here's what works.