Sep 23, 20213 Reasons Your SAFe® Journey Has Lost Its WayWith the 2021 Global SAFe® Summit only a week away (September 27 — October 1), the software delivery community will come together once again to tackle that ever-pressing question: just do you marry technical agility with business agility to support customers more effectively? The most popular framework for scaling software…Scaled Agile Framework5 min read
Aug 23, 20213 Most Common Excuses for Ignoring User Feedback in Federal Software DevelopmentOrganizations that can tap into the power of user feedback have seen enormous improvements in ROI over the past decades. It started with Agile via iterative deliveries of user value on a set cadence, usually every two to three weeks. As top-performers (those that understood and embraced Agile fundamentals) began…Federal Government6 min read
Aug 3, 2021Just Get In the Water! The Right Metrics To Help Your Value Stream Management Journey Swim“Coach, we’re not ready”, was what we kept saying, just a bunch of lowly high school rookie swimmers on our bus ride to the season’s first meet, the regional swimming invitationals. “Our times aren’t any good, we miss turns all the time, our goggles keep falling off on our starts”. …Flow Metrics8 min read
Jul 22, 2021Reignite Your SAFe® Journey with Flow Metrics“Business agility is the ability to compete and thrive in the digital age by quickly responding to market changes and emerging opportunities with innovative, digitally-enabled business solutions” — Scaled Agile Kate Chajka has been working on the frontline of Agile transformations for over 15 years. To say she has seen…Scaled Agile Framework10 min read
Jul 19, 2021“47% of software is not measured against business impact” — The Inaugural State of Value Stream Management Report is Out!“As tech giants and startups disrupt every market, those who master large-scale software delivery will define the economic landscape of the 21st century, just as the masters of mass production defined the landscape in the 20th” Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO and founder Tasktop, author of Project to Product As we…Value Stream Management4 min read
Jul 1, 2021DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) Metrics and Flow Metrics: Use the Whole Ruler, Not Just Two InchesSoftware delivery is all about delivering more customer value faster to remain competitive in the digital-first world. And like any process, you need meaningful data insights to understand how fast you’re delivering, what’s slowing you down and what you can do to improve. While DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics…Dev Ops7 min read
Jun 17, 2021Have You Lost Sight of Your Agile Transformation?In a time when business agility is legacy-defining, today serves as the perfect time for technology leaders to revise their Agile practice. For many organizations, the ability to absorb and adapt to the changes caused by the pandemic is a leading indicator of how Agile they really are. Despite heavy…Value Stream Management6 min read
Apr 19, 2021Leadership Insights to Track Your Project to Product Journey, Step By StepThe recent success of TUI Group’s migration to the cloud is a powerful example of what is possible by adopting a project to product mindset. …Value Stream Management4 min read
Mar 16, 20215 Reasons You Shouldn’t Attempt To Build Your Own Flow Metrics ToolOver the last year, restaurants (like most companies) have been forced to think creatively about how they continue to serve customers without physical interaction. …Value Stream Management10 min read
Feb 24, 2021SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban Share a Bottleneck and It’s Not What You ThinkEven in today’s economic downturn, where U.S. job postings are down overall compared to 2019, tech hiring is showing signs of being more resilient than average. In fact, seven of the ten most in-demand tech jobs are for developers—and none are for QA. That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow…QA5 min read