Scaling Agile

Bottlenecks occur on all planes of reality. Think of a river flowing to the ocean. What happens when that river gets obstructed by a fallen tree or a rock slide? The flow of the river...

As the originator of the first Scaling Agile solution in Jira (supporting SAFe 2.3® initially), Cprime is an expert in defining and refining the best way to configure Jira to support Scaling Agile and SAFe®...

Value Stream Identification and Mapping is one of the best tools used in SAFe that develops deeper transparency within your organization. However, Value Stream Mapping is also one of the tools most often skipped or...

Building trust takes time, restructuring around customer value takes more time, and changing culture, takes even more time. The success of each of these ongoing endeavors depends largely on transparency within an organization. When is...

Many organizations are in various stages of implementing Program Increment (PI) planning as part of their development processes. Those organizations that have successfully implemented PI planning processes in a physical world may experience additional benefits...

SAFe is the most popular framework in use today to guide an organization’s efforts to scale agile practices beyond the team level. But, when people look into it for the first time, this is what...

Please note: This is one in a four-part series on the powerful reporting capabilities offered through Atlassian Jira Align (formerly Agilecraft). The series will cover Jira Align reports of specific value to agile practitioners at...

Now that you have successfully launched a Scrum team and helped them to deliver value to the stakeholders, you have proven that the Agile approach can work for your organization. Congratulations! This is a big...

Once you have mastered Scrum and Kanban, the logical next step is usually scaling. What is scaling Agile? The simplest way to describe scaling Agile is to implement Agile practices across multiple teams that are...

Please note: This is one in a four-part series on the powerful reporting capabilities offered through Jira Align (formerly Agilecraft) by Atlassian. The series will cover Jira Align reports of specific value to agile practitioners...

Every business wants to have the ability to accurately forecast what’s going to happen in the future. And, not just tomorrow or next week. When thousands of people and billions of dollars are involved, large...

Back in the days before agile really took hold in the software development world, workflow processes were dominated by project management. You might not remember what that was like, but you can imagine it: It...