It is pretty remarkable how many people get promoted to VP on the heels of subpar performance or even outright failures in their previous roles.
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Sachin Menon, VP GSIs, was cut
Has any VPs been let go? Anywhere, Any department?
Anyone that has ever glanced at Safe documentation understands it is an elaborate joke on engineering. Absolute rubbish. Totally agree with the OP. I cannot stress enough just how sh-t Safe is.
Well, it appears that the primary criterion for becoming (X)VPs was to have a SAFe certification. SAFe Advanced Scrum Master certification guaranteed promotion to SVP if not SAFe Agilist can land you a VP job.
On a serious note I believe if anything accelerated the mess we are in, it was the adoption of SAFe.
SAFe may be good for consulting companies where time & efforts are tracked, lack of creative people mandates setting processes like SAFe that encourages micromanagement and spoon feeding, and above consensus is a necessity to manage client's expectations.
However it is ineffective for any product based companies and does a big damage, as we already see with Citrix too. I understand that it's easy to call out any thing when some thing fails but thats not the intent. Many of us really saw the decline in real outcomes and positive behaviors in team members since after we adopted SAFe.
Consider this, everything looks great on PI program board with high-fives done and consensus made for winning the PI, and later these there is a drive to grab accolades at the end of PI for successful execution. But in reality we have much lesser outcomes quarter after quarter since we adopted SAFe. It is an expensive framework, which only helps micro management (there are some folks who wanted it), encourages behaviors that about self proclamation, but decreases agility, innovation, ingenuity in any organization.
Has anyone in leadership wondered why Tesla, Google and many other successful big but agile product companies aren't doing SAFe?
I feel that a few program managers have single handedly taken the company to a disaster and has led to multi billion dollars of net loss .
When are those culprits getting fired?
I'd bet this is HR posting random VP related messages in order to distract from the ongoing layoffs. Hmm!!!