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**London (26 April 2018)** - Ivar Jacobson International (IJI), a consulting, coaching and training company for enterprise-scale agile software development announced today it is expanding its partnership with Scrum Inc, the world’s premier Scrum training and consulting provider to bring the first certified Scrum@Scale classes to the United Kingdom. The first Scrum@Scale course will be taught by Jeff Sutherland.

This IJI customer's IT modernization program team recognized the importance of working in an agile way that was tied to proven and well defined practices. By working with trusted partner Ivar Jacobson International, they were able to dramatically improve release to acceptance test times while also delivering predictably, improving stakeholder satisfaction and increasing employee morale.

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.

Agile and lean ways of working adopted in a development organization spread across multiple time zones - highly adaptable way of working provides "just right" level of support for projects with diverse needs and varied risk profiles.

Serious gaming to encourage and nurture an agile mindset, beyond just software and product delivery teams, using jargon-light agility cards.

Rule Financial standardizes on a company-wide delivery method, based on Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) essential agile practices.

SPV worked with Ivar Jacobson International's (IJI) certified partner XLENT to improve their way of working. SPV used IJI's Iterative Essentials practice to successfully deliver its Co-ordinated Pension Information Statement project on-time and on-budget.

One of the biggest challenges with agile change programs is achieving lasting change. So often, external consultants are brought in to impart their expertise in specific areas, only for this expertise to disappear as soon as the consultants leave. Our goal is to help you to change culture and behaviours in a lasting way, so that you can become truly independent and self-sufficient in new ways of working.

Our industry loves a fad - and in particular, we love to discover the Next Big Thing in development approaches. Each time we are promised a new (or improved) framework or playbook that will solve all our problems, and that we should immediately roll out to all our teams. And each time, we end up disappointed, without the results promised or anticipated, needing to look for a new Next Big Thing to repeat the cycle. It doesn't have to be that way, and the alternative needn't be as scary as it may seem. And it isn't another big framework!