Personally, I think SAFE or Agile/Scrum are good starting points.
The key part, however, is teams, departments, and companies, then modifying their actual working by eliminating ceremony and process.
The way I think Agile/Scrum/SAFE should work is that you expose all the teams to all the ceremonies, and all the different alternatives to each of the ceremonies to start with, but you also mandate thst 6 months to a year from now you should have reduced 50% of the ceremonies you started with.
The goal should be expose people the universe of options and ideas available, and then once exposed, require them to pick and choose between all these options to tailor their own customized solution which works best with the people on their team and the working styles and the kind of work they’re doing.
I heard an interesting perspective for startups - Kanban/Scrum is useful sometimes before launch, and not using scrum after is beneficial.
Mostly because launching changes so much.
Part of me does feel sometimes that ceremonies are for making sure the development practice is highly inclusive, including for new and less skilled developers still learning their ways. Another part of me thinks about how this also helps more people to be able to generally help with more of the codebase.
I think writing code for your future self or someone else, in a way you'd like to receive is critical to think about. This can include doing things the simpler way even if it's more verbose and more understandable. This isn't always possible, but more often than not, avoidable complexity also can encourage the engagement of a lot of ceremony around it. "Could this have been simpler?" is one useful question for code reviews.
The key part, however, is teams, departments, and companies, then modifying their actual working by eliminating ceremony and process.
The way I think Agile/Scrum/SAFE should work is that you expose all the teams to all the ceremonies, and all the different alternatives to each of the ceremonies to start with, but you also mandate thst 6 months to a year from now you should have reduced 50% of the ceremonies you started with.
The goal should be expose people the universe of options and ideas available, and then once exposed, require them to pick and choose between all these options to tailor their own customized solution which works best with the people on their team and the working styles and the kind of work they’re doing.