Agile frameworks are designed to enable the development team to be autonomous and free to design how they work. SAFe acknowledges that, at the scale of many tens or hundreds of development teams, it becomes increasingly chaotic for teams to fully self-organize.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |urllast=http://searchsoftwarequality.techtarget.com/answer/Scaling-Agile-development-calls-for-defined-practices-consultant-saysStafford |first=Jan |date=December 9, 2013 |title=Scaling Agile development calls for defined practices, consultant says |lasturl=Stafford|first=Jan|date=Decemberhttps://www.techtarget.com/searchsoftwarequality/definition/agile-software-development 9, 2013|work=SearchSoftwareQuality|access-date=2017-11-27}}{{deadlink|datework=September 2022SearchSoftwareQuality}}</ref> It therefore puts some constraints on this, so that where teams are working on the same product, their deliverables can be better synchronized for releasing together, although this has been one area in which SAFe has been criticized.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />
