SAFe moves teams away from a sense and respond approach and toward a central-planning approach. In effect, it reduces the agile team to a production team, giving them a fixed set of requirements and expecting a specific output to emerge from the end of the assembly line. This approach can be appropriate for high-certainty efforts, but it limits an agile team’s ability to learn from feedback as it goes forward. And again, it’s this learning from feedback that allows teams to navigate in high-uncertainty contexts.
