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Early Bird Registration Discount Available for July 23-26 SAFe Certification
Posted on June 29, 2012 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Executive, Agile Porfolio Management, Agile Release Train, Agile Requirements, Scaled Agile Framework/Big PictureHi, An early bird registration discount of $300 is available for anyone who signs up for Scaled Agile Certification between now and July 10. You can see details of the class and find a link to registration here. Benefits include: 3+ days of...
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Scaled Agile Framework Overview Webinar
Posted on March 23, 2012 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Executive, Agile Release Train, Scaled Agile Framework/Big PictureOne of our partners, Armond Mehrabian, just delivered an excellent webinar on the Scaled Agile Framework. This is a basic, yet comprehensive overview of the framework, from Team, through Program, through Portfolio. Since the framework is not quite...
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Agile Iteration. Agile Release Train. Agile Fractal.
Posted on September 27, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release TrainAs 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) ...
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Agile Release Train: Develop Synchronously, Release Whenever.
Posted on September 20, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release Train, Enterprise Rollout, Scaled Agile Framework/Big PictureThe 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...
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Agile Release Train Metrics
Posted on June 22, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release TrainI've had an On-again, Off-again, love-hate relationship with software metrics throughout my career. The On part is: of course we have to measure ourselves, less we a) not advance the science of software engineering in any credible way, and b) not provide...
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Agile Release Train Community of Practice
Posted on May 8, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release Train, Enterprise Rollout, Release PlanningAs those of you familiar with Scaling Software Agility, Agile Software Requirements or this blog know, the Agile Release Train is the mechanism I like to recommend whenever an enterprise needs to harness a significant number of agile teams...
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Agile Portfolio Planning and Business Epic Kanban System Overview
Posted on April 25, 2011 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Porfolio Management, Agile Release Train, Scaled Agile Framework/Big PictureMy colleague and “agile ninja”, Chad Holdorf, has been working with agile at enterprise scale for some time now. He has adopted the Big Picture from my Agile Software Requirements book, which he describes as a “Scaled Agile...
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Scrum of Scrum Ground Rules
Posted on November 19, 2010 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release Train, Enterprise Rollout, Team PracticesIn the last post, I described an impressive Scrum of Scrums meeting I attended this week. It's a pretty big Agile Release Train that has 14 cooperating teams. After just a few months of agile, this program really...
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On “Ba” at a Scrum of Scrums
Posted on November 18, 2010 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Release Train, Enterprise Rollout, Team PracticesI was a “chicken” today at one of the more effective Scrum of Scrums for an Agile Release Train that I have witnessed. Big program. 14 teams. The uberScrumMaster (Release Team Manager) started the meeting at 9 am, facilitated...
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Release Predictability Metric
Posted on September 7, 2010 by Dean Leffingwell in Agile Porfolio Management, Agile Release Train, Agile RequirementsI've been using a "Release Predictability Metric" (RPM) on a number of larger agile programs. The goal of this key metric is to help the teams achieve a level of program predictability that their enterprise stakeholders can count on, while...
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