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Publications

When they’re not consulting with their clients, many of our consultants find the time to put pen to paper. This resources section contains a small selection of their output, reflecting the distilled essence of many years experience solving a wide variety of software development and systems delivery challenges.

Blog

WSJF - The Subtleties

Dispersed Planning - Part 3 - Retrospection

Dispersed PI Planning - Inspect & Adapt

SAFe Principles Role Based

Dispersed Planning - Part 2 - Facilitation

Dispersed PI Planning - practicalities of facilitation

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Cards

NEW YEAR, NEW PRINCIPLE: DOWNLOAD UPDATED SAFE PRINCIPLE CARDS FOR VERSION 5.0

Scrum Essential Cards

SAFe Feature Cards

SAFe Product Owner Product Manager Cards

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White papers, Articles

Tear Down the Method Prisons! Set Free the Practices!

An ACM Queue Publication

Industrial Internet Needs Many Methods: CACM Publication

Is there a single method for the Internet of things?

Industrial Scale Agile - From Craft to Engineering

Essence is instrumental in moving software development toward a true engineering discipline

Use-Case 2.0: The Hub of Software Development

Use Cases are the Hub of the Software Development Lifecycle

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White papers

The Seven Deadly Sins of Product Management

Right Sizing Features for SAFe Program Increments

Feature Slicing Guide and Poster

Empowering Agile Teams to Achieve a Continuously Learning Organization

An ABC Guide to Leveraging Adaptive, Bite-Sized, Composable Practices

Measuring What Counts in Agile Software Delivery

What Should You Measure?

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Articles

Agile Transformation at Skandia

Major League SEMAT: Why Should an Executive Care?

Becoming better, faster, cheaper, and happier

Exclusive Interview with Prof. Ivar Jacobson

On Common Ground with Essence

Agile and SEMAT: Perfect Partners

Combining agile and SEMAT yields more advantages than either one alone.

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Case studies

HAPAG-LLOYD USE ESSENCE TO DRIVE AGILE TRANSFORMATION

Agile Transformation at Skandia

An Interview with dbPalace at Deutsche Bank

Blazing the Trail – Successfully Scaling Agile in a Traditional Environment

Fujitsu and IJI Go Agile with Essence

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Presentations

50 Years of Software Engineering, So Now What?

Standing Room Only for Dr. Jacobson's Keynote at Conference

What You Need for IOT: Smarter Methods

Presentation at IOT World Congress

Market Disrupting Innovations via New Agile Methods Standard

Presentation at CA World - November 2016

Essentializing the DSDM Agile Project Framework

A Joint Presentation from DSDM & IJI

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Podcasts

Podcast: How Businesses Can Adopt More Agile Ways of Working

EM360 Interviews Ian Spence

Cultivating an Agile Leadership Culture

Agile Transformation at SimCorp

Essential SAFe: A Simpler Way To Scale?

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News

Dr. Jacobson Delivers Keynote at 40th International Conference on Software Engineering

Standing Room Only to Hear Ivar Discuss 50 Years of Software Engineering: So now what?

IJI Expands Partnership with Scrum Inc. to Bring First Scrum@Scale Training to the United Kingdom

Training to Begin in June 2018

The Heart of Software Development - The Essence

Dr. Jacobson to Deliver Public Lecture at Chalmers University

Use Case 2.0 and its Role in Agile Software Development

An Interview with Ivar Jacobson by BluePrint

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Tools

SAFe 5.0 Big Picture

SAFe 5.0 for Lean Software and Systems Engineering

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Brochures

Use Case 2.0 eLearning Summary

Agile Contracting Training

Team-of-Teams Essentials

Part of the IJI Agile at Scale Practice Pack

Shared Backlog Essentials

Part of the IJI Agile at Scale Practice Pack

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Books

The Essence of Software Engineering (2013)

Applying the SEMAT Kernel

The Economics of Iterative Software Development - (2009)

Steering Toward Better Business Results

Managing Iterative Software Development Projects - (2006)

Aspect Oriented Software Development with Use Cases - (2005)

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