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Part of the IJI Agile Essentials Starter Pack of Practice Cards Agile Essentials practices provide a starter kit that describes key common aspects of team-based development. Each practice contains cards that provide succinct advice on how to successfully adopt and apply the practice.

Use this practice to actively address the technical risks facing the project and establish an appropriate architecture.

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

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.

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.

It's been said that the only real sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition. Learn how in this webinar presented on June 18th by Brian Kerr of Ivar Jacobson International.

The Essence Agile Essentials practice cards aid team-based software development by ensuring that core agile team practices are transparent and effective. Each practice contains a small number of cards that provide useful, structured advice on how to apply the practice. The set represents a useful and usable set of practice cards that development teams can freely select, combine and adapt to help them work effectively as a team.

In this fast-paced, responsive world, software development teams are adopting agile techniques to speed up development times and reduce risks, while simultaneously becoming more responsive to the needs of their customers. Many organisations have kick-started their agile journey and many have successfully introduced agile on a team basis; however, the real challenge is ensuring that agile can scale and is sustainable as corporate plans and personnel evolve over time. Helping organizations embed, sustain and scale agile ways of working is at the heart of Ivar Jacobson International's (IJI) expertise, skillset and intellectual property.

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).