I’ve spent time doing software at VW and a few of its subsidiaries, and this matches my experience.
Compliance is everything, and SAFe (Scaled Agile) is deployed as a blunt instrument.
Management treats software exactly like hardware production lines—everything is just an "engineering process" that can be optimized on a spreadsheet.
The underlying assumption is that individual engineering talent is just an interchangeable commodity. Once you view developers as replaceable cogs, outsourcing the entire infrastructure to the lowest bidder in India becomes the logical conclusion.
It’s a textbook case of process-over-people driving institutional tech debt.
Compliance is everything, and SAFe (Scaled Agile) is deployed as a blunt instrument.
Management treats software exactly like hardware production lines—everything is just an "engineering process" that can be optimized on a spreadsheet.
The underlying assumption is that individual engineering talent is just an interchangeable commodity. Once you view developers as replaceable cogs, outsourcing the entire infrastructure to the lowest bidder in India becomes the logical conclusion.
It’s a textbook case of process-over-people driving institutional tech debt.