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We improve the performance of development teams by introducing new agile practices and removing barriers to their wider adoption.
Through the provision of great people, innovative practices, and proven solutions, we ensure that our customers achieve strong business/IT alignment, high performing teams, and endeavors that deliver.

We employ only high-calibre consultants, industry leaders and through our associate network have extensive international coverage.  We have helped companies all over the world with agile transformations spanning the US, Europe, The Middle East and Asia.

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Training

We provide world-class agile training in a wide variety of subject areas in support of team and organization software development improvement activities. We provide training direct to the market via our public training academy, or can provide bespoke or standard training provision privately for organizations both as onsite, physically delivered training courses or remotely via electronic means.

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Course Location Date
SAFe® Release Train Engineer Remote Course (CET) 2022-10-11
Implementing SAFe® with SPC Certification Remote Course (BST) 2022-10-17
SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager* Remote Course (BST) 2022-10-27
Leading SAFe® with SA Certification Remote Course (GMT) 2022-11-01
Implementing SAFe® with SPC Certification Remote Course (GMT) 2022-11-07
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Products

Innovations for the industry!

We constantly strive to bring innovative new agile products and practices to the industry of software engineering to help us all do it better, faster, cheaper and happier!

Contact Us to find out more about any of our Products, or follow the link for further details.

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Why does Essence make popular methods better?

In a recent LinkedIn article by Dr Ivar Jacobson, (replicated here to raise visibility), Ivar explores how the Essence standard can be used powerfully to make even existing methods better so that t

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Essence is a Game Changer

In a recent LinkedIn article by Dr Ivar Jacobson, (replicated here to raise visibility), Ivar explores the various use cases of the Essence standard as they can be used powerfully by software devel

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How Can I Improve My Scrum?
Image of the Scrum Practice Sprint Review card. Pulled from the Scrum Essentials Practice developed in conjunction with Scrum Inc.

Scrum and its hybrids are the dominant approaches used by Agile teams today.

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On The Nature Of Portfolios - Portfolio WSJF - Part 6

“Always show your working out!” was the mantra of my maths teacher in senior school. This series of blog posts “On the Nature of Lean Portfolios” is an exploration of Lean Portfolios.

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Method Agnostic Agility in non-Development Environments
Image of some of the cards from the Essence based Method Agnostic Agility Cards used to help people learn about some key agile principles.

I’ve been working with a large government defence organisation over the last couple of years, helping to lead an agile transformation across a very diverse set of contexts covering 30,000+ individu

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Portfolio Events - Structuring The Events
Image of part of a concept map used by IJI consultants to explain Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) principles in this instance structuring portfolio events.

“Always show your working out!” was the mantra of my maths teacher in senior school. This series of blog posts “On the Nature of Lean Portfolios” is an exploration of Lean Portfolios.

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Case Studies

Image of the Hapag-Lloyd corporate logo. Provides access to an IJI case study explaining how Hapag-Lloyd Used Essence To Drive an Agile Transformation.
Image of the Liverpool Victoria LV corporate logo. Provides access to an IJI case study explaining how IJI helped Liverpool Victoria LV establish lean portfolio management LPM and launch Agile Release Trains (ART's)
Image of the Skandia corporate logo. Provides access to an IJI case study explaining how IJI helped Skandia undertake a full-scale transformation to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
Image of the SimCorp corporate logo. Provides access to an IJI case study explaining how IJI helped SimCorp undertake a full-scale transformation to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
Image of the Fujitsu corporate logo. Provides access to an IJI case study explaining how IJI helped Fujitsu move towards agility with an Essence based agility workshop.
Image of the NS (Dutch Railways) corporate logo. Provides access to an IJI case study explaining how IJI helped NS (Dutch Railways) utilize case cases and use case slices to help make their development endeavours more agile.
Image of the UK NHS Blood and Transplant corporate logo. Provides access to an IJI case study explaining how IJI helped UK NHS Blood and Transplant undertake an Agile Transformation in a Highly Regulated Environment.
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