The RTE asks every Scrum Master on the transit-fare ART to "just coordinate harder" so dependencies stop slipping. What should the Scrum Master / Team Coach prefer?
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Short Explanation
Telling coaches to "coordinate harder" is asking more traffic cops onto a jammed interchange. Transit-fare work gets faster when fewer lanes have to merge—better team design and slicing, not more radios. Hero coordination is a symptom, not a strategy.
Full Explanation
High-performing multi-team collaboration includes shrinking the dependency graph, not only managing it. SAFe teams improve flow when work is sliced so a team can deliver a resident outcome with fewer handoffs; that is team design and backlog structure, not extra meetings. A daily all-hands, a coach-owned spreadsheet, or a fiscal freeze substitutes theater or delay for design. The Scrum Master / Team Coach still participates in ART coordination, but prefers fewer structural dependencies over infinite coordination.