Publications

Use this practice to break the project up into a series of smaller, self-contained, time-boxed, mini-projects and get your teams working collaboratively and objectively to plan, execute and track their project.

A scalable, agile practice that uses use cases to capture a set of requirements and drive the incremental development of a system to fulfill them. Use this practice to capture requirements in an accessible form and drive the development of software.

This team workshop focuses on the practical application of agile principles and practices to achieve team success, using simulations on Day 1 and direct application of the practices to your actual project / team work on Day 2.

The team kick-start service focuses on the practical application of agile principles and practices to maximize team success. It assumes a standing start, but can also be applied where established teams are struggling to achieve optimal collaboration and performance.

This leadership briefing focuses on what really matters – the economic case for agile and the changes that are needed within your organization to fully realize the economic benefits of agility. The briefing uses simulations to reveal the essential benefits, differentiators and change implications of agile.

The healthcheck service holds a mirror up to the team, to help them assess their levels of agility, identify any gaps in their agile practice armory, and enable them to fill these gaps to optimize their performance and maximize their success.

Dr. Ivar Jacobson delivered a keynote presentation at the TAI Internet+ Conference in Beijing, China on July 28, 2015. *This keynote address is in English with Dr. Jacobson pausing for Chinese translation.

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.

As with any new initiative people are struggling to see how it fits into the world and how it relates to all the other things going on. For example does it improve or replace their current ways of working. Is it something like lean that supports and furthers the aims of the Agile Movement, or is it something like waterfall planning that is in opposition to an agile approach? The good news is that both Agile and SEMAT promote non-prescriptive value-based philosophies that encourage software development teams to select and use whatever practices best fit their context and, most importantly, continuously inspect, adapt and improve their way of working. In this keynote we will look at how these two initiatives complement one another, providing the perfect foundation for teams that want to master the art of software development.

Learn how to use simple cards and checklists to achieve lean governance for agile software development projects and programs. First presented as a webinar by Ian Spence on 23rd April 2014.