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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.

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...

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...

This article explains how to track progress of an Endeavor using the Essence standard and the key concept of Alphas.

Use Cases - The Ultimate Guide …this guide describes how to apply use cases in an agile and scalable fashion. It builds on the current state of the art to present an evolution of the use-case technique that we call Use-Case 2.0. The goal is to provide you with a foundation to help you get the most out of your use cases; one that is not only applicable for small co-located agile teams but also large distributed teams, outsourcing, and complex multi-system developments.

Agility depends too heavily on tacit knowledge, but the Unified Process is too encyclopaedic. The answer? Virtual mentors that learn along with their physical peers.

An article by Roland Racko, President of eWyzard Inc, published in Dr. Dobb's Journal, 2004

This is an extract of an article Ivar wrote for Cutter IT Journal, Jan 2002, and looks at how we can take Agile to the next level.

Activity Spaces provide one powerful description of the Common Ground of Essence. Although useful just by name, there is a detailed description of each Activity Space in the Essence Standard. This article lists them in a slightly easier to find way.

The Activity Spaces are an often-overlooked aspect of Essence. These 15 descriptions of types of common activities that all software development teams will do are often overshadowed by the specific activities from Practices. But as this article shows they have value in their own right and can be a powerful tool to help teams improve.