Essence is getting increased attention in all circuits, such as academics, thought leaders and of course in the target circuit the industry.
Therefore we have designed an Essence Exploration Day (see presentation of the day further down) to which we invite people who have expressed clear interest from knowing more about Essence. Thus we usually invite two people from a selected company.
The ideal person we want to invite is a champion, who is an expert, trusted by others, who deeply understands how development teams work and interested in making that work better in all possible dimensions. We are not looking for a process engineer, since they just love what we have. We think the ideal champion is someone with long implementation experience.
We also welcome a sponsor someone with decision power to join to better understand how Essence will dramatically change her/his organization in many different positive ways. The two participants will together form a champion-sponsor pair, effective for taking further steps.
Moreover to really “get under the skin” of Essence we need not just presentations and demos, but participants need to play some instructive games and get hands on experience. You will love it.
After the Day, participants will get access to tools and cards to be able to further explore the values of Essence in Practice™.
We guarantee a game changing, once in a lifetime experience for participants in this Exploration Day. Don’t take our word for it but look at what some participants from our April 7 event say:
Richard Kronfält LinkedIn testimonial
The Essence Exploration Day is a one day extract from the “Better Scrum through Essence” 3-day course which has got fabulous reviews here.
The Essence Exploration Day:
Be part of the future of software development!
We believe that our current approach to developing software is starting to fail us, with projects struggling to deliver value on time and teams becoming overwhelmed with process and governance. In tackling these problems, Ivar Jacobson is pioneering a new wave of software development thinking – an international, open standard called Essence that can transform how you think about development and unlock the potential of your teams. We want to share this with you and help you see how your organizations could benefit.
As you probably know, Ivar Jacobson has been at the forefront of pioneering software development approaches for decades – from UML and Use Cases, through the Rational Unified Process to training and consulting in Agile and Scaled Agile. That journey isn’t over, but we believe that the future is not more and better development approaches or frameworks. Our world is too complex for that. Instead, the future is to democratize software methods, exposing the practices our teams use day-to-day, empowering teams to choose the right practices for their work and connecting them with practice experts to help master them. Governance will focus on the core elements that are common to every development team, measuring team outcomes in the same way, however the team chooses to get there.
Over the past few years, Ivar and a growing number of collaborators have developed these ideas into an open standard called Essence that will revolutionize how we manage and create software products. It requires a shift in mindset not dissimilar to that from waterfall to agile, but the results are more productive teams, streamlined governance, more clarity with stakeholders and better-quality products.
Essence is growing in popularity. There is lots of enthusiasm and a small but growing number of organizations starting to get real value from it. We would like to invite you to tell you about this; to make you part of shaping the future.
During the collaborative and informative day, we will help you understand a bit more about Essence, the problems that it solves and how it can provide huge benefits to organizations and teams. You will leave with practical ideas, tools and Essence cards that will help you and your teams improve and gain stronger insights into your work. We will share some of the problems we observe and some of the ideas we have about how we could help solve them. Throughout the day, we would really value your honest opinions and thoughts. We are interested in whether you recognize these issues and what other pain points you are experiencing. Essence can genuinely be transformational for the whole industry – This day is about exploring how it can be transformational for you too.