Essence

Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) and Dr. Alistair Cockburn | Humans and Technology Inc. are delighted to announce a partnership to describe and raise awareness for Hexagonal Architecture based on the Essence standard.

Essence and its many use cases are becoming more widely adopted, and as a consequence its content is growing. Therefore, we have created a new website, Essify.com, which will eventually replace our current Essence-focused webpages on IJI's website.

If you are interested in the Value of Essence and Essence WorkBench™ and how that technology can help teams optimize their development capability, then you are in the right place...

This article explains how to track progress of an Endeavor using the Essence standard and the key concept of Alphas.

Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) and Dr. Stefan Malich | Architectural Change Management are delighted to announce a partnership to describe and enhance architectural practices using the Essence language. The newly essentialized practices will be added to the ever-growing Essence based practice eco-system, giving organizations and teams even more flexibility as they select a way of working that is right-sized for them. The Essence and practice based approach is revolutionizing the way that the industry thinks about and presents development ‘methods’. Essence provides the architectural ‘...

Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) and PEM Systems are delighted to announce a partnership to describe multiple industry-critical problem-solving practices using the Essence Language. The newly Essentialized practices will be added to the ever-growing Essence based practice eco-system, giving organizations and teams even more flexibility as they select a way of working that is right-sized for them. The Essence and practice based approach is revolutionizing the way that the industry thinks about and presents development ‘methods’. Essence provides the architectural ‘glue’ that is helping...

A free MeetUp looking at how Essence brings extra value to The Flow System and other frameworks

Ivar Jacobson (IJI) and Joakim Sundén are delighted to announce a partnership to describe the Spotify Model to help people better understand what it is, and using Essence as an enabler, evolve the industries understanding of how it can be of value.

In 2021, Wood Mackenzie started a journey to scale and improve their development capability with support from IJI. Whilst the journey started with SAFe, following resistance, it evolved into a practice based approach founded upon the Essence industry standard. The case study below follows that journey from the viewpoint of Wood Mackenzie and shows how sometimes all-encompassing concrete method frameworks struggle to meet the needs of diverse organizations who have many ways of working in-play. This is especially true when teams crave autonomy of approach to properly embrace agile...

Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) and Professional Development Network LLC. are delighted to announce a partnership to describe The Flow System using the Essence Language. The newly Essentialized practices will be added to the ever-growing Essence based practice eco-system, giving organizations and teams even more flexibility as they select a way of working that is right-sized for them. The Essence and practice based approach is revolutionizing the way that the industry thinks about and presents development ‘methods’. Essence provides the architectural ‘glue’ that is helping...