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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How Far Along Is Your Project-to-Product Shift?
An AI coaching prompt from my "Product Orientation Through LPM" talk: pressure-test one real initiative, find the real gap, and get one experiment to run.
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Do You Still Need Scaling Frameworks With AI?
The flattening pitch assumes your teams can deliver an outcome alone. Most cannot. Agents make them faster, not independent.
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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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Using the Stacey Uncertainty Matrix in SAFe
Apply the Stacey Matrix to SAFe decisions so you can match planning, coordination, and leadership approach to the real level of uncertainty.
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Pull-Based Change Management: Invite, Don't Push
Pull-based change management: treat change as a product, invite instead of mandate, use minimum viable change, and scale on evidence, not rollout theater.