Resources

Essence - Component Essentials Flyer

Use this practice to develop complex systems as assemblies of smaller and simpler components and develop complex systems in an extensible and maintainable fashion.

Team Essentials Flyer

Use this practice to bring together a project team and establish an effective working environment by establishing and gaining the competencies needed to succeed.

Iterative Development introduction - essential practices flyer

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.

Use Case 2 - Essentials Practice Flyer

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.

Agile Essentials Team Workshop

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.

Agile Essentials Flyer

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.

Agile Essentials Leadership Briefing

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.

An image containing a summary of our Agile Essentials Health-Check, also detailed in the PDF linked on this page

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.

Alpha State Explorer Application - Ipad

New Alpha State Explorer app helps software teams focus on essentials, and keep projects on track, using simple check-lists based on emerging industry standard.

Agile and SEMAT Perfect Partners for Software Engineering Best Practices

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.