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Your facial expressions are spectacular! I've never actually laughed when watching anything about SAFe until now :-) Thank you!!

By far, one of the best and most entertaining videos on SAFe PI Planning, EVER! Thank you

Thank you for taking the time to explain this concept.

What's the best country to live in for a scrum master?

Safe as agile as a rock

Pure nonsense

thank you Maria for sharing your thoughts from the conference, and also the state of Agile! I've been noticing the same in the Agile circles about how the Agile-craze is now over, no longer in favor, just another methodology...it's discouraging I think its discouraging because I have had the opportunity to work on a fully remote team where we embraced Agile, had a wonderful Scrum Master and delivered (in iterations) new software that was what the customers wanted. To be honest, the process was not easy and we went through a lot of growing pains along the way. That whole process (which was over several years of inspect and adapting) was worth it. Customers were happy (even if they provided critical feedback, we were getting frequent feedback), leadership was happy, our team collaborated together and with other teams in our org ~ good times. For agile teams that haven't had a great experience, I agree that sometimes leadership (management) might be a pain point, it also could be that some members of the team are slower to change and feel that agile is being forced on to them. For that I think that small steps of incorporating Agile and Scrum practices would be beneficial. Keeping it casual is good, change is always difficult and some team members might embrace "something new", some others wouldn't at all/as quickly 😉but being mindful of the team's personalities leads to success. Ideally, IMO I think that it comes down to what works best for the team so that it can deliver working software, be nimble to handle feedback or changes and value people (team members and stakeholders)...that might be an à la carte approach to agile/scrum, but if there is support to experiment with that...go for it

I'm new to all this info but I love your style of teaching. Thank you Coach.

Hahaha love it, also love the very calming yoga music and voice this time.. ;) Although not big fan of the idea that such events take place in Texas..

Love it

Agile methods used to be a thing engineering teams did internally when it was helpful. And sometimes we did it informally (like go to coffee and talk about challenges (blockers) to solicit ideas instead of a worthless DSU). Agile with SAFe has now become professionalized and exhausting and lame. It's become almost an academic exercise where SMs, POs, Agile coaches, RTEs have created an ecosystem where the whole point has become adherence to its processes. The point of Agile has become doing Agile. And the time spent in isolated Jira boards is excessively wasteful. (At least tools like Azure DevOps have a full suite of planning, testing, repos, pipelines, etc. built-in to a single seamless experience. Standalone Jira is especially suspect to me.) But leadership in many companies drunk the Kool-Ade after listening to an army of consultants and now all of Jonestown is being poisoned.

This is great!

Really impacting as my organisation is in part (our bug department) is culling all agile for exactly the reasons you say, "bring it into the team" etc and also cut costs. .. and as a new SM (2 years) finding the market tough. Signing up now

Amazing as always, your content is also super great.

Am grateful for your videos......i love the clarity and simplicity of language use

Am so ready for some KANBAN 😂

69%? NOICE!! 👨‍💼👩‍💼

Great meeting you this week at Agile Alliance 2024 #Agile2024

A very educative video ..thank you

This template is chef's kiss 😙🤌

Maria, I have a question for you. I just started working for a new company (8 days ago). They are using JIRA to keep a list of all their projects and track to a completion date. They do not use Agile (i think waterfall). They do not want to use agile. They are not recording tasks. They do not have employees assigned to tasks. They are asking me "How can we use JIRA more effectively?" i'm not sure where to start. What are your thoughts? Any suggestions?

This video is aligned with present thinking. People have been using Scrum for 30 years and everybody is an agile master at this point with hardly a day in agile that doesn't look like any other day, and hardly a team in agile.that doesn't look like any other team. So it is a good time to step back and think about what are we actually trying to achieve, and this seems to be a desirsble direction.

The half of scrum badly and using jira quote actually came from the creator of agile, Andy Hunt

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Why so much negativity against SaFe from your prospective?

after 5hrs im still insulted 🤬

your microphone is insulting me.....🤬

Thank you!! :)

Very nice! Thank you. Miro is great!

Insightful! I loved many parts of this podcast, especially the courage to speak beyond hierarchies.

Hehe, bull*4it management. I am adopting this term now :) It's funny how people say that waterfall is dead and then they spent days planning. And hamster stays trapped in a wheel.

Scale Agile Framework is just Waterfall with an Agile Skin. It's prescribed, project management, gnatt chart release planning with some Agile buzz words laid over it and some agile offices and team structure like Product Owner and Scrum Master; but it's not Agile. What SAfist call chaos, is the adaptability of Agile and having a flatter control structure; but when you need the power and control of demanding what's going to be done, and by what deadline, that just won't do. We had senior VP a couple years ago try to bring SAFe to our organization; which was basically him telling the team's what they must deliver by each release based on his business initiatives. I was so glad when we came back for the next release planning and he was gone. Don't know if him leaving was related to his SAFe attempts; but doesn't matter, cause Scalable -Waterfall- Agile went with him.

Nice work Maria! Your analysis is really interesting and insightful. I think companies generally, especially big tech, saw a rapid expansion due to the flood of money during government stimulus as a result of covid. During this time, everything that was virtual become super accelerated, physical building costs went down, and hiring went up. With it, came a glut of managers, including agile peoples to meet the demands of the software projects (because physical projects were not as easy). With a glut, comes a drop in quality. SAFe became more popular, because of the minimal impact on having to make any real organisational structural change, and with it a cadre of “ceremony” evangelists. After 2-3 years, and having COVID pass, companies are looking at their crazy hiring practices as normality returns, and some of these people are expected to return to the office, which means costs go up. It’s time to shed again. To increase profitability, as you rightly said, cost cutting begins and the easy target is people. Managers will always go first, as they are non essential. Middle managers will be first in line, and that’s precisely where Agile peeps fit. I’ve not seen any company (bar one) I’ve worked for in the last 6 years show a strong ability to focus, mobilise its human assets and strategy in a way to maximise value. I think there’s still massive opportunity for companies to leverage much of what the best of the Agile community has on offer. However, as has been rightly pointed out, there is such an over saturation of text book purists, that the whole “people and interactions over processes and tools” has ironically been lost. Great work, interested to see how your new project goes!

Great timing, Maria! I just see it now that you have posted this today, immediately signing up ✨

It was such a great pleasure exchanging with you, Maria! Your channel rocks!

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Thanks for sharing!

Like reason to Flat earth earthers

Small note- The Certified ScrumMaster Certificaiton is provided by the Scrum Alliance, not the Agile Alliance. Agile Alliance does not provide certifications.

Great content as usual, thanks for creating and explaining things in such a great way

I love that you invite challenging your views ;) I have a slightly different view on the PSM as you do ;) The main difference is that for a PSM you do not have to visit a training of a vetted expert. Everyone can offer preparation training and you can to the test even with only self studying. Scrum Alliance CSM (not Agile Alliance ;) ) requires to visit a training with one of the few Certified Scrum Trainers. They questions in the PSM test might be "tougher" or more ambiguous, but I have witnessed it numerous times that people with a PSM visited a CSM and stated afterwards that they now understood more than before if hey had done self study or visited a non PST training. So my advice, if you take a PSM, at least make sure you visit a training with a PST.

Great overview for starters and experienced professionals!

Very informative video. I'm going to try this? Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Have a great day. 🗓 👍 Wow 800 likes 💃

I've been on both a "Kanban" team that just set up status swimlanes and got going on the work, and a Kanban team coached by a professional that helped us understand the actual Kanban model, with WIP limits and techniques like mobbing (or is it called swarming?) to push "stuck" items forward. The feeling of teamwork was night and day. Chris Stone is a great source of retro ideas!

I started my countdown timer…How long before companies finally realize they need to go back to Waterfall because ALL their work is budget locked, time locked, scope locked.

Why she is talking like a teenage tictoker..! Closed the video in 10 seconds. That was irritating.

"... why simplify if we we can complicate things ... ?" Yep, that's too often the way of Scaled Agile. I like the paradigm, and have seen it work well, but the nomenclature works against adoption. (For me, the website is ... off-putting.)

Sad to say scaled agile doesnt make sense. Sorry.

It's not just hated by "agile practitioners." It's hated by every engineer that is subject to a looney bin style way of project management, which is what this is.