Scalable Agile Frameworks: Comparing Safe, Less, And Nexus for Enterprise Adoption

This study aims to identify and systematically compare the main large-scale agile frameworks that companies can adopt to manage the work of large scale and distributed teams. The companies can consciously perform better decision on the choice of the framework that fits the practices and challenges of their organizations. The work employs a qualitative approach supporting an exploratory analysis identifying the processes of migration to large scale agile. First the assessment criteria for scaling agile are discussed. Second these criteria used to perform a comparative analysis fo 3 large scale agile frameworks i.e. SAFe, LeSS and Nexus. The findings reveal there isn’t a dominant large scale agile framework in all dimensions. However, framework like Nexus offer low technical complexity accommodating the changes easily while other frameworks like SAFe offer high level of scalability more demanding and deep efforts changing work processes in organization.