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Agile Rehab: Replacing Process Dogma with Engineering to Achieve True Agility
Struggling with your "agile transformation?" Is your scaling framework not providing the outcomes you hoped for? In this article, we’ll discuss how teams in a large enterprise replaced heavy agile processes with Conway’s Law and better engineering to migrate from quarterly to daily value delivery to the end users.
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How Space Shapes Collaboration: Using Anthropology to Break Silos
Software companies strive to keep innovating and changing the rules of the market. These companies are made of people who, unlike smartphones, personal computers or smart watches, have not evolved as much in recent years. This article proposes an analysis of workspaces from anthropology to solve one of the most common problems: the appearance of silos instead of a culture of collaboration.
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How to Make DevOps Work with SAFe and On-Premise Software
There can be no agile software delivery without the right DevOps infrastructure. In this article we share our experience in our DevOps and agile transformation journey. We have a big and distributed team structure and we are delivering an on-premise software that makes the delivery different from cloud practices. The challenge was bringing all the teams together in a pipeline for faster delivery.
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A Transformation Journey for a Distributed Development Organization
Agile transformations are never easy, but are even more challenging than usual when it comes to geographically distributed teams. This article highlights experiences from Konica Minolta’s Workplace Hub program and shares the methods that helped them on their journey. It's about the organization, processes, but most importantly, about the people and the mindset.
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Scaling Agile in a Data-Driven Company
The IT department of Cerved Group experimented with Scrum, Kanban, Lean, SAFe, and Nexus, to learn what works for them and fine-tune and continuously improve their way of working. In their transformation, they focused on the culture and mindset to cultivate high-performing teams, to improve the quality of products for customers, and to help managers transforming themselves in servant leaders.
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Doing Scrum with Multiple Teams: Comparing Scaling Frameworks
Many companies have successfully scaled Agile, and by nature they have done it differently. To speed up your implementation there are several frameworks that can work as a staring point; LeSS, SAFe, and Scrum@Scale. In this article we help you choose by giving you a short description and exploring their similarities and differences.
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The CA Crew on Coaching Coaches, Mixing Cultures and Future Product Direction
At the recent Agile 2016 conference, InfoQ sat down with Ronica Roth, Steve Demchuk and Eric Willeke of the CA (formerly Rally Software). They discussed coaching the coaches, transforming CA to becoming an agile organisation, mixing cultures, the state of the products and future product direction.
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The Right Way to Scale Agile: Scaling Value Delivery over Process
There is no one way to scale agile. In order to find the right way for you organizations you need to understand what you are trying to achieve and create a process that works to deliver that outcome. This article shows how organizations can help teams remain true to agility and deliver value as they scale Agile — whether from top-down or bottom-up — without following a one-size-fits-all process.
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Book Review and Author Q&A on Scaling Agile: A Lean JumpStart
Sanjiv Augustine is the author of Scaling Agile: A Lean JumpStart, a short and informative book about scaling Agile methods. It covers an essential set of Lean building blocks as a starting foundation for larger Agile scaling frameworks, including the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), and Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD).
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Q&A with Dean Leffingwell on Leading SAFe LiveLessons
Dean Leffingwell’s “Leading SAFe LiveLessons” - training videos are based on Lean-Agile transformation concepts at enterprise level. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) provides practices, roles, activities and artifacts for applying Lean and Agile development at enterprise scale.