Blog

Agile

Iterating faster with SAFe

Here’s a frequently asked question in the SAFe community: I wanted to understand what SAFe says about someone who wants to go faster than 2 weeks of iteration? I mean the whole PI concept is based on 5 iterations worth of planning. What if a team/organization wants to develop and synchronize faster than 2 weeks? Is speed going to be compromised by following the standards of PI cadence?

Here’s my take:

Adjusting Cadence Length in SAFe – Can you? Should you?

Read More »
DevOps

Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps Sitting in a Tree

Leverage Kanban and DevOps to improve Scrum

Should you use Scrum, Kanban, or DevOps? You don’t have to choose: Scrum teams improve when they look at flows inside and outside their sprints from a Lean/Kanban perspective. In this session, we will talk about Kanban-related myths prevalent in the Scrum world and identify common ground between them. We will look at ways to bring Kanban flow into your Scrum: the Kanban-based Sprint/product backlog, flow-based daily Scrum, visualizing aging work, and flow-based Sprint planning. We will describe ways to wrap Scrum with a Kanban flow system, and at the higher-level picture of a DevOps culture and process. You’ll leave with a better understanding of how Scrum, Kanban, and DevOps relate to each other and with ideas for experiments to try when back at work.

Recorded at Agile New England

Read More »
Continuous Deployment

The Sprint Increment Is Dead

The Sprint Increment Got Us Here

If you’re a veteran of the software industry, you probably remember those days when we released to production/GA every couple of months. Heck, many of the companies I meet these days still work that way.

If you’re also an experienced Scrum practitioner, you probably associate the time you started to use Scrum with the time you started to release more frequently. The Sprint Increment that had to be potentially releasable caused you a lot of pain as you were trying to improve your processes and capabilities, implement Continuous Integration, and finally gain the ability to actually have a releasable Increment each Sprint. You were pretty proud.

Read More »
Kanban

Improving your SAFe™ Implementation with some additional Flow metrics

The Premise

A year ago Scrum.org, in collaboration with Daniel Vacanti and myself, published the Kanban Guide For Scrum Teams, a guide that is aimed at helping Scrum Teams take advantage of Kanban/Flow principles and practices. (I wrote an earlier blog post about understanding the guide)

SAFe™ has included Kanban at all levels since version 4.0. Some basic guidance about Kanban is included in most if not all SAFe curriculums. Can a SAFe practitioner learn anything from the Kanban Guide For Scrum Teams?

In this blog post, I’ll explore some of the flow metrics from the guide with an emphasis on those that aren’t covered in SAFe.

Read More »
Kanban

Kanban Service Level Expectations and how to use them in Scrum

One of the new concepts we introduce in the Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams is the Service Level Expectation, defined as:

An SLE forecasts how long it should take a given item to flow from start to finish within your workflow. The SLE itself has two parts: a period of elapsed days and a probability associated with that period (e.g., “85% of work items will be finished in 8 days or less” which can also be stated as “8 days with 85% confidence/probability”).

Read More »
Kanban

Understanding the Kanban for Scrum Teams Guide

It’s been so exciting to hear so much positive feedback and interest in the new Scrum.org Kanban for Scrum Teams guide and the accompanying Professional Scrum with Kanban class. Creating the class and guide together with Daniel (Vacanti) & Steve (Porter) and then working on getting it to market in a professional way (how else? ) with the Scrum.org staff has been a great experience and a major focus area for me in the last couple of months.

As you might imagine, together with the interest come some questions about some choices we made in the design of the guide and the class. Several are emerging as the frequently asked ones. I wanted to tackle a couple of those in this post.

Where are some of the core Kanban practices?

Read More »
Subscribe for Email Updates:

Most New:

Categories:

Tags:

LPM
Effective Agile Retrospectives
Release Train Engineer
Agile Mindset
Frameworks
Value Streams
Amdocs
Test Driven Development
Lean Agile
Business Agility
Introduction to ATDD
Enterprise DevOps
System Team
Agile Basics
Lean-Agile Budgeting
Agile India
Built-In Quality
Limiting Work in Progress
A Kanban System for Software Engineering
Managing Risk on Agile Projects
Program Increment
Agile Israel Events
Principles of Lean-Agile Leadership
POPM
SA
Professional Scrum Master
IT Operations
RSA
Rovo
Rapid RTC
Agile Development
Certification
Sprint Retrospectives
Lean Agile Basics
Tools
Agile and DevOps Journey
Jira Cloud
Manage Budget Creation
Scrum Master
Operational Value Stream
Agile Community
Releases Using Lean
Agile for Embedded Systems
Agile
Story Slicing
Agile Israel
Kanban
Agile Marketing
The Agile Coach
Webinar
Kaizen
Covid19
Lean-Agile Software Development
Continuous Integration
Video
Product Management
SAFe
Agile Assembly Architecture
Acceptance Test-Driven Development
WIP
Agile Exercises
Advanced Roadmaps
Agile Delivery
Agile Product Development
Agile Project Management
Scrum.org
Lean Agile Management
Presentation
Pomodoro Technique
agileisrael
Process Improvement
Kanban Kickstart Example
Daily Scrum
Development Value Streams
System Archetypes
Software Development
ScrumMaster Tales
Elastic Leadership
Continuous Planning
Scrum and XP
lean agile change management
Spotify
TDD
Continuous Delivery
Software Development Estimation
predictability
Agile Techniques
Tips
Jira
Risk Management on Agile Projects
Product Ownership
Lean Budgeting
Kanban 101
AI Artificial Intelligence
Jira admin
Continuous Improvement
Atlaassian
Entrepreneurial Operating System®
BDD
Iterative Incremental Development
EOS®
Nexus
Legacy Code
Change Management
speed at scale
ALM Tools
Scrum Primer
speed @ scale
Accelerate Value Delivery At Scale
Agile Testing Practices
Lean and Agile Principles and Practices
AgileSparks
Agile Release Planning
AI
Lean Startup
Achieve Business Agility
ATDD vs. BDD
Lean Software Development
Retrospectives
Nexus Integration Team
Agile Games and Exercises
Agile Project
ATDD
Managing Projects
ROI
Quality Assurance
Perfection Game
Professional Scrum with Kanban
User stories
ART Success
Lean Agile Leadership
ARTs
Agile Release Management
Hybrid Work
RTE Role
The Kanban Method
Nexus vs SAFe
Nexus and Kanban
DevOps
Agility
Agile Risk Management
Risk Management in Kanban
SAFe DevOps
Implementation of Lean and Agile
Agile in the Enterprise
What Is Kanban
PI Planning
Jira Plans
Portfolio for Jira
Kanban Game
Reading List
GanttBan
Confluence
Planning
Agile Contracts Best Practices
NIT
Professional Scrum Product Owner
Keith Sawyer
Scrum
LeSS
Implementing SAFe
Scrum Master Role
Applying Agile Methodology
Continuous Deployment
Scrum Guide
Lean and Agile Techniques
Atlassian
Introduction to Test Driven Development
SPC
An Appreciative Retrospective
Agile Games
Engineering Practices
PI Objectives
Slides
Large Scale Scrum
Artificial Intelligence
SAFe Release Planning
Coaching Agile Teams
LAB
Agile Program
Kanban Basics
chatgpt
QA
Team Flow
Risk-aware Product Development
Self-organization
Agile Outsourcing
Kaizen Workshop
Legacy Enterprise
Scrum With Kanban
Certified SAFe
RTE
System Integration Environments
transformation
Nexus and SAFe
Lean Agile Organization
Agile Product Ownership
Sprint Iteration
Lean Risk Management
Code
Scrum Values
Systems Thinking
Scaled Agile Framework
Sprint Planning
AgileSparks
Logo
Enable registration in settings - general

Contact Us

Request for additional information and prices

This website uses Cookies to provide a better experience
Shopping cart