After 25 years, the promise of agile planning has been overshadowed by rigid processes and administrative burdens. Traditional agile planning is now showing its age, weighed down by backlogs, burndowns and technical debt.
Yet, as agile scaled across enterprises, something was lost in translation, giving rise to frameworks like the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) that attempted to bridge the gap between team-level agility and enterprise needs. As a result, the software industry’s most dangerous phrase shifted from “we’ve always done it…








