Even if the entire organization is neatly organized into scrum teams, you can still end up with an unaligned mess!
Before trying to “manage” this complexity, ask yourself “does it really need to be this big and complicated?” So start by trying to simplify things. Some wise person said “Don’t scale agile – descale your org”.
Agile relies on self-organization, which is super-effective (when done right). But with more than a handful of teams, self-organization sometimes needs a helping hand – someone to create and maintain the environment that enables self-organization in the first place.
Do you have experienced any major miss-use of the Scaled Agile Framework and found that it feels like a traditional waterfall? I have some mess-up examples: PI Planning is a 10 weeks waterfall plan hierarchy from strategy, to portfolio, to program, to team responsibility IP Sprint for System test and Quality during 10 weeks iterations, run…