Jesper Ørting

At Better Change, we understand the immense potential of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) to empower large organisations on their journey towards business agility. Yet, a critical factor often overlooked is leadership's active promotion and embodiment of Agile principles.

A CIO kicks off a major scaling programme. Six months later, the new ceremonies are running, the teams are trained, and the results are... roughly where they were before. This is not an unusual story.

The Scaled Agile Framework is a capable tool for large-scale coordination. But SAFe implementations fail at a predictable rate when the leaders sponsoring them continue to behave in fundamentally un-agile ways. The framework is not the variable. Leadership behaviour is.