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How do introverts handle PI Planning? Surely a big noisy room, full of people, is absolute hell from them? Which led me to ask myself the question; as an introvert how do I survive PI Planning; and I’ve survived 15 years of planning events, mostly unscathed.

How do Epics get work done? How do they get work done in a manner that respects the Lean/Agile Principles and Values rather than replicating the old processes.

In this short blog Ian Spence looks at how many Features a SAFe® Agile Release Train needs to prepare to be ready for their PI (Program Increment) / big room planning event.

IJI has been engaged with a major UK bank over the last 18 months helping them introduce new methods of working, and IBM’s Collaborative Lifecycle Management tooling to support these methods. Business Analysts now capture their requirements in Rational Requirements Composer (RRC), Solution Architects create their designs in Rational Software Architect (RSA) using the Unified Modelling Language (UML), Infrastructure & Security Architects add deployment topologies to the designs using RSA’s Deployment Planning extension, and everything is underpinned by Work Items and Source Control in Rational Team Concert (RTC).

Over the years a lot of articles have been questioning "Is Agility Dead?" Rather than another click-bait rants, what the situation needs is some sensible, reasoned thinking that gets beyond the observable symptoms and starts to ask why? This post looks at What is Agility?

Over the years a lot of articles have been questioning "Is Agility Dead?" Rather than another click-bait rants, what the situation needs is some sensible, reasoned thinking that gets beyond the observable symptoms and starts to ask why. The post looks at what has changed within the Agile Industry since the Manifesto was published in 2001.

Over the years a lot of articles have been questioning "Is Agility Dead?" Rather than another click-bait rants, what the situation needs is some sensible, reasoned thinking that gets beyond the observable symptoms and starts to ask why. There are a number of instances of high-profile agile initiatives being cancelled and the associated roles being made redundant by the organisations involved. General reason cited: We Just Don't See The Value

Over the years a lot of articles have been questioning "Is Agility Dead?" Rather than another click-bait rants, what the situation needs is some sensible, reasoned thinking that gets beyond the observable symptoms and starts to ask why. In this post we'll look to the future and explore some of the challenges the industry is about to face and the hope that: Won't AI Save Us?

Over the years a lot of articles have been questioning "Is Agility Dead?" Rather than another click-bait rants, what the situation needs is some sensible, reasoned thinking that gets beyond the observable symptoms and starts to ask why. Having explored the problem space in earlier posts, this post loops back and asks What Is The Problem?

The following blog provides a set of free, downloadable agile coaching cards that can be used by Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters and teams working in many different contexts. These cards have been developed while working outside of software and product development with government Defence teams and I’ve used these cards to teach agility and help develop an agile mind set.