It is good practice to first write large user stories (commonly known as epics) and then to split them into smaller pieces, a process known as product backlog refinement or grooming. When product backlog items are split, they are often…
The following was originally published in Mike Cohn's monthly newsletter. If you like what you're reading, sign up to have this content delivered to your inbox weeks before it's posted on the blog, here. User stories are great. When you’ve…
To this point, I’ve covered topics around failure in leadership and failure in workflow. It’s now time to dig a bit deeper into the question, “How does your organization “show up?” That is, “What’s the overall sense of how people…
A Perspective on DevOps from SAFe, IBM and Telstra Hi everyone, Alex just participated in a webinar hosted by IBM that provides SAFe, IBM and customer implementation perspectives on DevOps. Other participants include: Tony Christensen, GM/Agile Competency Lead, Telstra Amy…
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“Your goal is to get to the top of the mountain and you’re riding your bike, competing to get there first … and you get passed by a motorcycle. You’ve just experienced the type of disruption that many industries are…
Descaling Organizations with LeSS Scrum is a successful and widespread framework, but at some point almost everyone started to talk about scaling. Large organizations want to spread this miracle and Agilize everyone. Many consider agilizing large organisations as bad, and…
Cross-posted. Find the original at the SolutionsIQ Website at this link Thanks for taking the time to read (and watch) this introduction to LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum)! If you prefer video to text for an introduction to different aspects of LeSS,…
This post is cross-posted from the Gosei page at their blog Comparing LeSS and SAFe Both Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) have a history with Nokia and use it as a reference. What most people do not…
Hi Everyone, Since our last update, the team has been working on the next revision of the Big Picture, V4.0. In so doing, we have taken every opportunity to test assumptions and learn new insights from our practitioners in the…