I’ve trained dozens of teams who are using SAFe, and I have never seen it work well. Although the appeal of having a framework that lays out everything you need to do technology-wise in nice neat boxes sounds appealing, in practice it usually breaks down. The product owners are disconnected from their users and incapable of creating effective solutions because they do not understand the problems well. The product managers are essentially Waterfalling down the requirements, and the teams are not allowed to prove whether these are the right things to build. No one is doing validation work.
