2 min lesson
Methodology is not lifecycle
Make the call in this situation: "A prospect proudly says 'we're a mature SAFe shop across 12 teams.' What does this tell you - and what does it NOT tell you?" Explain what supports it.
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Scrum, Kanban and SAFeScaled Agile Framework. A framework for coordinating many agile teams at enterprise scale, common in regulated orgs. Press Enter for the full definition. are coordination layers.
They tell a team when to talk, how work flows and who aligns with whom. They stay deliberately silent on how you design a system, test it, release it and operate it. Confusing the two is the most common rookie mistake in enterprise discovery.
Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
Scrum/Kanban/SAFe set ceremonies and cadence on top; they never reach into Design → Build → Test → Release → Operate. Cursor lives in the machine - the stages every methodology leaves undefined. Probe the stages, not the ceremonies.