Posted on September 27th, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
As I’ve described at length in Agile Software Requirements, Scaling Software Agility and this blog, the Agile Release Train can provide tremendous benefits to the larger agile software enterprise. I, and many others, routinely apply it to: 1) Align agile teams to a common mission 2) Institutionalize program-level, product development flow. However, being a man of [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
Well, after more emails than I care to think about, and after being tempted to give up on the entire concept, Agile Software Requirements: Lean Requirements Practices for Team, Programs, and the Enterprise is now (again) available in native Kindle format from Amazon. Thanks to Chris Guzikowski, the Addison-Wesley team and Amazon for finally making [...]
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Posted on September 20th, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
The software development paradigm called the Agile Release Train (introduced in Scaling Software Agility and better elaborated in Agile Software Requirements) is being put to effective use in a number of larger agile, software enterprises. It is often put in place between six months and a year after the team-level agile transformation. (That’s when the [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
In my Agile 2001 presentation (Five Keys to Building the Lean|Agile Enterprise), one of the keys I described is the question/statement to the effect of whether or not your enterprise can be leaner than the thinking of those executives and managers who pilot the ship. Although I was rushed during the presentation time (my continuing [...]
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Posted on September 7th, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
As I’ve noted on this blog before, I often provide enterprise-level training and consulting services to the larger software enterprise. But since they are big enterprises, training and consulting has to be scaled as well, so I always work with others, too. Recently, I’ve added two partners to my team, Mauricio Zamora and Alex Yakyma. [...]
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Posted on September 7th, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell
OK, additional feedback drives me to make yet-another-minor-change to the Big Picture (sorry!). I’ve renamed it (hopefully for the last time) to be the “Scaled Agile Framework” (SAF for short). I’ve also tweaked the product owner and scrum master icons for better graphic discrimination. The latest is below: Scaled Agile Framework Big Picture Also, a [...]
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