Publications

On April 21st, 2015, software development professionals from across Europe met in Amsterdam to discuss and learn about Use-Case 2.0. Nicole de Swart of Reaco Academy sat down with Ivar to ask some questions about Use-Case 2.0.

Essence is a super-light foundation of software engineering including elements we always have, always produce and always do. Its application allows team to work in a super agile way and it turns software development to become more of an engineering discipline than just a craft. On top of Essence organizations are now developing practices and at the OMG Technical Meeting Special Event on June 18, 2015 in Berlin, Germany, speakers from companies such as MunichRe, Fujitsu, RedHat and Ivar Jacobson International shared their experiences in using Essence.

A truly agile organization is a learning organization continually refining and improving all its practices. It is not an organization that flits from one fad to another or continuously replaces one flawed process with another, more fashionable one. Change is constant and a sustainable agile transformation harnesses practices to embed and sustain an agile program.

In this one-hour webinar, Ian Spence reviews how you can create a practical dashboard for iterative projects by examining a number of popular measures and how you can use them on real projects.

Project sponsors are like powerful tools - when engaged effectively they can clear seemingly insurmountable barriers and pave the way to success. When engaged ineffectively they can make any project a living nightmare. In this webinar we will discuss strategies for involving project sponsors at the appropriate times, for the appropriate reasons, so that the project sponsor works for you, rather than the other way around.

A successful, sustainable agile transformation is one that creates a self-sustaining, continuously learning organization focused on delivering improved business results. Setting up empowered communities of practice and encouraging knowledge-sharing via practice/knowledge hubs are critical elements to success.

A mistake that many organizations make is to think that agility is an end in itself rather than an enabler for better business performance. It's critical for organizations to always remember why they are implementing an agile approach. In this webinar, Ian will share with participants how IJI has helped its clients to quantify the results they were looking for and how they measured the effect of their transformation on their business.

The IoT with its expected huge number of products will need a multitude of methods. Mandating a one-size-fits-all method was an old dream that never worked in practice. 60 years of having monolithic methods in system development is also enough. Let’s break their tyranny using smarter Essence-based methods.