This article looks at the Practicalities of Cross-ART Collaborations and how to achieve them in a way that empowers the teams rather than imposing upon them.
This page provides a summary and recap of the Webinar: 'Epic Failures and a couple of successes too, Patterns and anti-patterns in Lean Portfolio Management', that took place on the 12th March 2025.
How do introverts handle PI Planning? Surely a big noisy room, full of people, is absolute hell from them?
Which led me to ask myself the question; as an introvert how do I survive PI Planning;...
This page provides a summary and recap of the Webinar: 'Practical Lean Portfolio Operations, Keeping Everything Running', that took place on the 26th February 2025. It contains a video replay for...
Over the years a lot of articles have been questioning "Is Agility Dead?" Rather than another click-bait rants, what the situation needs is some sensible, reasoned thinking that gets beyond the...
Over the years a lot of articles have been questioning "Is Agility Dead?" Rather than another click-bait rants, what the situation needs is some sensible, reasoned thinking that gets beyond the...
Over the years a lot of articles have been questioning "Is Agility Dead?" Rather than another click-bait rants, what the situation needs is some sensible, reasoned thinking that gets beyond the...
Over the years a lot of articles have been questioning "Is Agility Dead?" Rather than another click-bait rants, what the situation needs is some sensible, reasoned thinking that gets beyond the...
Over the years a lot of articles have been questioning "Is Agility Dead?" Rather than another click-bait rants, what the situation needs is some sensible, reasoned thinking that gets beyond the...
Free Lean Portfolio Management Webinar Series! We’re excited to announce a new, completely free upcoming webinar series to help guide you through the pitfalls inherent in running a Lean Portfolio.
Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) and Dr. Alistair Cockburn | Humans and Technology Inc. are delighted to announce a partnership to describe and raise awareness for Hexagonal Architecture based on...
Agile is becoming widespread across industries, but its adoption in hardware development has been slower compared to software. Many companies have embarked on Agile journeys, but not all have...
Essence and its many use cases are becoming more widely adopted, and as a consequence its content is growing. Therefore, we have created a new website, Essify.com, which will eventually replace our...
The second in a pair of blogs that deep dive into Slicing Features. This blog looks at how the slicing patterns can be utilised in practice to break down large endeavours.
The first in a pair of blogs that deep dive into Slicing Features. This blog describes the slicing patterns themselves.
Stories, or User Stories, are a common way to express each backlog item for a single team to complete within one Iteration or Sprint. Lots has been written over the years about how to write good...
A single backlog of work shared by many people focuses and aligns their work towards the most important work items. In SAFe, an ART Backlog of Features is used to align...
A single backlog of work shared by many people focuses and aligns their work towards the most important work items. In SAFe, an ART Backlog of Features is used to align...
This page provides a summary and recap of the Webinar: Writing Better Epics in SAFe, that took place on the 11th July 2024. It contains a video replay for anyone who missed it plus a transcription of...
We are leading an industry initiative to reframe the understanding and application of use cases and are looking to expand our network of training partners.
How do Epics get work done? How do they get work done in a manner that respects the Lean/Agile Principles and Values rather than replicating the old processes.
What should you be considering when approving Epics? The Epic needs to be considered within the context of the Portfolio rather than in isolation. What is that wider portfolio context?
Free Scaled Agile Framework® Webinar Series! We’re excited to announce a new, completely free upcoming webinar series to help guide you on writing better Epics, Features, and User Stories in SAFe...
A brief unifying paper to align the ideas within the two main industry use-case approaches. The paper acts as a foundation to reframe Use-Case modelling to support modern product development.
If you are interested in the Value of Essence and Essence WorkBench™ and how that technology can help teams optimize their development capability, then you are in the right place...