Well, we’ve (Harry, Dean, Alex and Inbar) been laboring mightily to develop all the new content for SAFe LSE. (Turns out, it’s hard). One result is the 50th (yes, version 50) of the LSE Big Picture. (Speaking of laboring, Inbar’s wife just delivered…
In January, I’ll be speaking at two events in London and Brussels: Scaling Agile for the Enterprise Consortium in Belgium on January 22 In Belgium, I’ll deliver the keynote where I’ll focus on the Principles of Lean-Agile Leadership which provides a…
In working towards the next release of SAFe (V4.0, scheduled for release in August of 2015), we’ve been extracting and refining the immutable Lean-Agile principles on which SAFe is based. In so doing we’ll be able to make Principles and…
For some time now we’ve seen a growing demand for context and culture-specific instances of the Framework, especially for highly complex organizations who are looking for a scalable and sustainable solution to long-term adoption of SAFe. As we’ve learned, when…
Everyone knows you need more than a whiteboard and stickies to practice Agile at scale. But the tool you use isn’t the only thing that matters: as Dean has said, “A fool with a tool is still a fool.” The…
Ok, so these are not the same topic, but they are related, so I thought one blog post could cover both … so … We’ve been working on highlighting the principles behind SAFe and SAFe LSE. In future versions of both,…
Rally Software, Scaled Agile’s first gold partner, recently announced enhanced support for SAFe V 3.0 in both their product and service offerings: See https://www.rallydev.com/community/agile/expanding-rally-support-safe-30 I’m particularly happy to see the new release Planning Board, which helps agile programs create realistic release plans that consider feature…
It’s always interesting to see opinions on SAFe from leaders in the field. In this case, SPC Em Campbell-Pretty took Mike Cohn’s CSM class. You have to admit, that should be interesting, indeed. See her post here. I’ll file this one under the Fun…
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…
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…