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Alpha State Cards in Practice: Experiences from an Agile Trainer
Having had the opportunity to incorporate the Alpha State Cards within some recent training classes I have been delighted to see the enthusiastic reaction they receive. The cards are great at bringing...
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A Hammerhead Shark versus James Bond in Speedos
I’ve often found that most of the questioning about the worth of agile tends to come from the Project Management community. That’s not a criticism on PM’s but an acknowledgement that for them it’s...
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Managing Non-Functional Requirements in SAFe
Managing non-functional requirements (NFR’s) in software development has always been a challenge. These “system capabilities”, such as ‘how fast a page loads’, ‘how many concurrent users the system can...
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Story Points, Lean Principles and Product Development Flow
A “story point” is a unit or measure which is commonly used to describe the relative “size” of a user story (an agile requirements artifact) when it is being estimated. In many cases, a fibonacci...
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Introducing Collaborative Lifecycle Management & Deployment Planning at a...
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...
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The Power of Checklists
Surgeons, astronauts, airline pilots and software professionals. What do all these people have in common? Well, for one, all of these professionals are very highly trained – in most cases in takes many...
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SAFe 3.0
Ivar Jacobson International remains committed to the Scaled Agile Framework – delivering Leading SAFe (SAFe Agilist) and SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) Certifications as well as providing SAFe...
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700 Engineers, 72 Teams, 3 Continents and Self-Sufficiency in less than 9 months
Cell phones, smart phones and tablets are pervasive. We live in a mobile world of wirelessly connected devices that have transformed the way we live, work and play. The internet is now becoming so...
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Creating Sustainable Agile Change
In 2011, Marc Andreesson, founder of Netscape and investor in many Silicon Valley start-ups penned an article in the Wall Street Journal titled “Why Software is Eating the World”, which outlined how...
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The Importance of Practice-based Development for Sustaining Agile Change
Most software development teams rarely lack access to defined techniques or processes, but information can quickly build to become unwieldy, providing teams with too much information, and often with...
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