Thinking about adopting the SAFe Framework? There are good reasons and bad reasons for adopting SAFe. Can you reasonably counter my claims or are you merely following the poor reasoning below the line?

1. Ten reasons why
you shouldn‘t use
the Scaled Agile
Framework
(SAFe)
Michael Küsters
Feb. 2020

2. Doesn‘t solve your
biggest problem
Everyone is using SAFe!

3. Not a recipe
to win
SAFe will make us more successful!

4. No change
where it matters
IT will become so much better!

5. No generation
of value
A Lean-Agile structure is valuable!

6. Parking lot for non-agile functions
The SAFe hierarchy has a place
for all coordinators!

7. It costs a lot
The transformation pays for itself!

8. Agile in
appearance only
SAFe will make us Agile!

9. Nobody
knows how to
do it right
We‘ll learn by doing!

10. Premature optimization
We‘ll have to make some „pragmatic
adjustments“.

11. No need to Scale!
But there‘s so much work to do!