[ButterWashed]

I'm currently a year into a role as Lead SRE in team working in SAFe. We plan five 2 week sprints for which we immediately write off 50% of our time as "BAU activities" and the rest of our time is spent lurching from one deliverable to another in the hope we actually achieve something before we get "re-prioritised" yet another time. It's not even SRE, it's 2nd line support and platform engineering. I really have no idea how SAFe works or how it's meant to work, but everyone seems happy so long as I complete my JIRA tickets on time because that's what the users want.

[ethbr0]

I worked for a SAFe company like that once.

Took a salary cut for another job.

Haven't regretted the choice for a second: life's too short to waste one's talent in service to a bad employer.

[BizarreByte]

I don't know if we claim to use SAFe were I work, but this sounds very similar to my experience. It frustrates me to no end, but as a contractor I don't get a say and the full time employees seem to be okay with the status quo.

I am constantly amazed that any working software comes out of such a process, but against all odds it does.