The Development Support Essentials Practice helps automate and operate environments in support of development teams to optimize the development process.
Development Support Essentials practice provides guidance to improve the development environment to enable faster delivery. This includes continuous integration, automated testing and deployment...
The DevOps Essentials practice provides guidance to smooth the transition from development to release and increase feedback from operations back to development.
The Agile Governance Essentials practice provides the guidance to align decision checkpoints between different development endeavors and non-software activities.
The Agile Architecture Essentials practice provides guidance for achieving just-in-time architecture preparation and continuous and emergent evolution of the software system.
The Adaptive Funding (AF) practice provides guidance to allocate agile budgets across development portfolios and to forecast budget requirements in a continuous manner.
Industrial-scale agile requires much more than just being able to scale agile. It also means taking a disciplined approach to ensuring that our IT investments are resulting in sustainable benefits...
Key to realizing benefits from agile is strong customer representation through empowered Product Ownership – to guide the team in delivering a solution that maximizes end-user value. But this is also...
Use cases have been around for almost 30 years as a requirements approach and have been part of the inspiration for more-recent techniques such as user stories. Now the inspiration has flown in the...
We must work as a team! Teamwork is critical! There’s no ‘I’ in team! These mantras are plentiful and many Agilists believe that success at the team level is the foundation to success at the...
The challenges for many organizations when adopting DSDM (Dynamic System Development Method) are around mind set change, awareness and communication. The Essence standard helps teams navigate through...
Since their inception some 30 years ago, use cases have been used to identify, organize, synthesize and clarify system requirements for organizations across the globe. In most recent years, they have...
In this episode, Ivar Jacobson shares with listeners the birth of Use Cases, how to apply Use Cases in agile environments, and what lies beyond Use Cases. After listening to the podcast, listeners...
Change. This simple word has been used to create communities, build businesses, and promote adoption within a myriad of other actionable objectives. It is as common as the air we breathe and as...
Presentation & Speaking Notes - Ed Seymour, Cloud Domain Architect from Red Hat looks at how SEMAT helps Red Hat manage an assortment of approaches when working with varied and disparate clients...
Industrial-scale agile means that agile at any-and-every scale is business-as-usual for an organization, across its entire portfolio, and that this capability is continuously sustained and...
Use this practice for a structured approach to the testing and quality assurance initiatives of a project and to improve estimating, monitoring and control of the test activities.
It allows, or forces, people to voice their opinions, thoughts and concerns. Pick the Alphas of concern to the group and focus on them. This game can be used in conjunction with “Chase the State” to...
One of the biggest challenges with agile change programs is achieving lasting change. So often, external consultants are brought in to impart their expertise in specific areas, only for this...
This instructional guide provides a brief introduction to the Alphas and presents seven different games that can be played with the Alpha State Cards by software development teams.
SEMAT (Software Engineering Methods and Theory) is an international initiative designed to identify a common ground, or universal standard, for software engineering. It is supported by some of the...
Agile rightly puts great store on the critical importance of transparency in all things at all times. To build trust and enable predictability, we need it to be transparently clear to all...
Part of the IJI Agile Essentials Starter Pack of Practice Cards
Agile Essentials practices provide a starter kit that describes key common aspects of team-based development. Each practice contains...