Posted on July 22nd, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
My colleague, (and partner in a number of agile rollouts), Alex Yakyma from Kyiv, Ukraine, has been opining on how the Agile Release Train and the Scaled Agile Delivery Model in general, helps drive knowledge acquisition, accumulation, and flow in the agile enterprise. He just put up a new post, Knowledge Flow in the Scaled [...]
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Posted on July 18th, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
Many of our larger software enterprises (perhaps MOST) do substantial development within the continental United States and also have a significant offshore development presence, most likely in India (or China or both and more). So it is a very common pattern that some large group of developers here, and a large group in India, must [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
John Deere’s Intelligent Solutions Group (ISG) has recently announced that they are in the midst of a large-scale agile transformation that affects hundreds of software practitioners worldwide. This is a particularly interesting agile transformation for a number of reasons (many of which have been used as excuses by other enterprises as to why NOT to go [...]
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Posted on July 5th, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
A few days back, my colleague, Chad Holdorf, published a video blog post illustrating one way to track enterprise-scale releases (using Rally tooling in this case). The post is here. http://www.scaledagiledelivery.com/2011/07/01/how-to-track-customer-releases/ They’ll be more on Chad’s work in an upcoming post about John Deere’s implementation of agile at enterprise scale. That should make an interesting [...]
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