Scaled Agile

This article looks at the Practicalities of Cross-ART Collaborations and how to achieve them in a way that empowers the teams rather than imposing upon them.

This page provides a summary and recap of the Webinar: 'Epic Failures and a couple of successes too, Patterns and anti-patterns in Lean Portfolio Management', that took place on the 12th March 2025.

How do introverts handle PI Planning? Surely a big noisy room, full of people, is absolute hell from them? Which led me to ask myself the question; as an introvert how do I survive PI Planning; and I’ve survived 15 years of planning events, mostly unscathed.

The second in a pair of blogs that deep dive into Slicing Features. This blog looks at how the slicing patterns can be utilised in practice to break down large endeavours.

The first in a pair of blogs that deep dive into Slicing Features. This blog describes the slicing patterns themselves.

Stories, or User Stories, are a common way to express each backlog item for a single team to complete within one Iteration or Sprint. Lots has been written over the years about how to write good stories; so why are so many stories still bad? In this webinar we describe where the user story concept came from, the true purpose of stories and explain ways that teams can avoid falling into the trap of doing work rather than delivering value. We describe how in SAFe the purpose of stories can be different to other agile development practices, since SAFe describes a Feature as being a releasable item, not an individual story. And we explain strategies to slice a SAFe Feature into stories.

A single backlog of work shared by many people focuses and aligns their work towards the most important work items. In SAFe, an ART Backlog of Features is used to align the work of multiple teams in the ART to the most important work items. However there are many pitfalls that must be avoided when writing Features for the ART backlog. Bad Features will result in poor work throughput, unaligned and disempowered teams. In this webinar we describe some of the strategies you can follow when writing Features to encourage agility as well as improve productivity.

A single backlog of work shared by many people focuses and aligns their work towards the most important work items. In SAFe, an ART Backlog of Features is used to align the work of multiple teams in the ART to the most important work items. However there are many pitfalls that must be avoided when writing Features for the ART backlog. Bad Features will result in poor work throughput, unaligned and disempowered teams. In this webinar we describe some of the strategies you can follow when writing Features to encourage agility as well as improve productivity.

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When Is An Epic done? “Always show your working out!" was the mantra of my maths teacher in senior school. This series of blog posts “On the Nature of Lean Portfolios" is an exploration of Lean Portfolios. It is the thought processes running through my mind, exploring the possibilities so that I understand why things are happening rather than just doing those things blindly. It is not intended to be a fait-accompli presentation of the solutions within Lean Portfolios but an exploration of the Problems to understand whether the solutions make sense. There are no guarantees that these...