As a former SPCT and gold partner, Al Shalloway has seen patterns of success, stagnation and failure in SAFe adoption. These can all be understood by viewing them in the context of systems thinking and where SAFe follows (or doesn’t) theories of Flow, Lean, ToC and organizational development. DA FLEX is an agnostic approach based on looking at an organization’s context and applying practices indicated by the theories of Flow, Lean and Theory of Constraints guided by theories of organizational development and systems thinking. The DA FLEX Playbook for SAFe describes how SAFe adoptions can be improved by taking . . .