By now, you've probably heard about the impending breakup of HP into two separate companies. Some are calling the division of the 75-year-old business a “watershed moment for one of tech's most iconic companies." Here’s something we thought was worth calling…
Inbar Oren, the maker of the short and fun “SAFe 3.0 in 9 minutes video” (see http://scaledagileframework.com/foundations/), recently presented an overview of SAFe to an audience at Adventures in Agile meet-up in London. Of course, it took him longer than nine minutes,…
There are two primary ways for planning a sprint: velocity-driven sprint planning and commitment-driven sprint planning. In last week’s post, I described velocity-driven planning; so in this week’s, we turn our attention to commitment-driven sprint planning. A commitment-driven sprint planning…
I’m always pleased to see bright people explaining and summarizing SAFe better than I can. In a recent post, Eric Willeke, a leader in the kanban community, describes how SAFe handles WIP limits at the portfolio level (after all, if you…
Last week we looked at how today’s global markets require new ways of doing business, so that you can respond quickly to threats and opportunities. We showed you why it’s not enough simply to implement Agile practices into your development…
Last week I met with a strategy leader for an Australian financial services organization, who was trying to work out how to bring his executive team together on a regular cadence to align around strategy. He’d built a great Kanban…
There are two general approaches to planning sprints: velocity-driven planning and commitment-driven planning. Over the next three posts, I will describe each approach, and make my case for the one I prefer. Let’s begin with velocity-driven sprint planning because it’s…
Many agile and Scrum teams struggle to limit their work in progress. This results in task switching, delays and other wastes, overall reducing how much the team delivers. Physically limiting space on a team task board asks as a mental…
When it comes to organizing large or geographically distributed agile teams many people will tell you that there are two strategies, taking what is called a component team approach or taking a feature team approach. Many people will tell you…
We’ve been working diligently on continued conceptualization of the SAFe LSE Big Picture, as well as the new article content. To that end, we’ve just updated the Big Picture to rev 0.30. (yeah, 30 revs so far, see below). Big Picture for SAFe…