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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Use this practice to establish control over the lifecycle of an iterative development project and establish a life-cycle for the project and plan effectively according to project circumstances.
Use this practice to manage the development of successive evolutions of a software system as a series of product releases.
Use this practice to actively address the technical risks facing the project and establish an appropriate architecture.
Use this practice to develop complex systems as assemblies of smaller and simpler components and develop complex systems in an extensible and maintainable fashion.
Use this practice to bring together a project team and establish an effective working environment by establishing and gaining the competencies needed to succeed.
Use this practice to break the project up into a series of smaller, self-contained, time-boxed, mini-projects and get your teams working collaboratively and objectively to plan, execute and track...
A scalable, agile practice that uses use cases to capture a set of requirements and drive the incremental development of a system to fulfill them. Use this practice to capture requirements in an...
This team workshop focuses on the practical application of agile principles and practices to achieve team success, using simulations on Day 1 and direct application of the practices to your actual...
The team kick-start service focuses on the practical application of agile principles and practices to maximize team success. It assumes a standing start, but can also be applied where established...
This leadership briefing focuses on what really matters – the economic case for agile and the changes that are needed within your organization to fully realize the economic benefits of agility.
The...
The healthcheck service holds a mirror up to the team, to help them assess their levels of agility, identify any gaps in their agile practice armory, and enable them to fill these gaps to optimize...
New Alpha State Explorer app helps software teams focus on essentials, and keep projects on track, using simple check-lists based on emerging industry standard.
As with any new initiative people are struggling to see how it fits into the world and how it relates to all the other things going on. For example does it improve or replace their current ways of...
Learn how to use simple cards and checklists to achieve lean governance for agile software development projects and programs. First presented as a webinar by Ian Spence on 23rd April 2014.
It's been said that the only real sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition. Learn how in this webinar presented on June 18th by Brian Kerr...
Use Case Definition: 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...
In today's ever more competitive world, boards of directors and executives demand that CIOs and their teams deliver "more with less." Studies show, without any real surprise, that there is no one-...
The Essence Agile Essentials practice cards aid team-based software development by ensuring that core agile team practices are transparent and effective. Each practice contains a small number of...