Hang on! SAFe did what now?!
Scaled Agile Inc and their ridiculous copyright claims.
One of our fellow writers and respected Serious Scrum editorial member Paweł Huryn had his Medium article blocked through a DMCA claim by Scaled Agile, Inc’s “commercial council”. Fortunately, Medium restored it.
Here is what Paweł posted on LinkedIn:
“Agile — SAFe 1:0 🥳 A few weeks ago, Scaled Agile blocked my article. Today it was restored by Medium. Conclusions? You cannot censor critical opinions just because you don’t like them!” — Paweł Huryn
Now, this irony won’t be lost on you if you know Scaled Agile Inc ‘borrowed’ a tremendous amount of content from a wide range of agile and lean frameworks and patterns and compiled it into its monstrously heavyweight Frankenstein framework: SAFe.
Scaled Agile Inc is claiming copyright over the content they copied from others, including, but not limited to, the Agile Manifesto, the Scrum Guide, Lean UX, XP, DevOps, etc. Scaled Agile is ripping content from all over and calling it theirs.
Here are some examples that made me chuckle, sigh and cringe in one breath:
