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Agile Starter Pack
The Agile Starter Pack is a perfect reference guide for Agile newcomers. In one simple download, you get all of…

Implementing SAFe in Jira
Here is a quick overview of our approach for implementing SAFe in Jira. Cprime’s Jira SAFe product blends Atlassian’s ALM…

Optimize Portfolio Performance with Agile Techniques & Jira – Part 2
Some organizations spend months or even years attempting to create a workable portfolio management solution – often with little success.…

Scaling on Atlassian: Avoiding the 5 Top Pitfalls when Migrating from a Legacy System
New emerging platforms and technologies like “Atlassian” have caused us to revisit the many different software vendors that provide short…

Jira Integration Boosts Productivity and Scalability Across Enterprise Software
This customer needed to consolidate their business processes across functional departments and decided to integrate their CRM and ALM systems…

BlueKit: A Collection of Tools and Templates to Amplify Agile adoption!
As the organization began to implement agile at scale, several challenges emerged, chief amongst them was knowledge management. With the…

ScrumMaster: Servant Leader or Secretary?
At the end of 2017 the Scrum Alliance announced the launch of the Advanced Certified ScrumMasterTM (A-CSMTM) program. Are you…

Migration Questionnaire
Are you looking to take on a software migration? You definitely came to the right place. Here is a sample…

Plantronics Applies Agile for R&D Teams: Agile for Hardware Case Study
With the shifting deadlines, changing priorities, and engineering unknowns that are common to any R&D department, a standardized but flexible…

Optimize Portfolio Performance with Agile Techniques & Jira
Some organizations spend months or even years attempting to create a workable portfolio management solution – often with little success.…

Scaling Agile with Atlassian and SAFe®
Together, with Atlassian, we are proud to release the “Scaling Agile with Atlassian and SAFe®” white paper This solution…

Increase Confluence Adoption with Personalization and Mobile!
In this presentation, we covered how to use Confluence and Linchpin to drive performance and engagement for your company. This…

Optimized Customer Service migrating from ServiceNow to Jira Service Desk
For Client Services at The Trade Desk, their issues were critical: slow workflows and process management could not keep up…

Tips to Make a Lean, Mean ITSM Machine with Atlassian
The ITSM mindset is shifting. In response, IT teams are switching to leaner, more agile approaches that value ease of…

Test Driven Product: Applying Test Driven Thinking to the Product World
XP gave us test driven as a design tool. People who did not understand that the tests drove the design,…

Splunk’ing Jira for Deep Insights Into Application, Database, and Server Health Trends
We will discuss many common performance problems that he has experienced over the years as a Jira administrator, which inspired…

Aligning Portfolio Management Reporting and Tracking
It is common for organizations that are in the midst of an agile transformation to struggle with trying to reconcile…

Contested Development: Finding Pragmatism in Agile & DevOps
Our task is to deconstruct the what and why of Agile and DevOps. We’ll tackle Agile and DevOps in nine…

Scaling Agile Survey 2017
Scaling Agile Report 2017” surveys professionals interested in Agile practices to see how companies view the importance of scaling their…

Agilent Case Study: Going Agile on a Grand Scale
Agilent's Software & Informatics Division set a new priority: Improve the predictability of the group's performance. With the help of…

Agile Vox: Scrum for Hardware?
This article was released in the Scrum Alliance's very first edition of Agile Vox Magazine, and is based on Cprime's…

An Introduction to Software Services Lifecycle Management (SSLM)
How SSLM Can Help Your Team Reach Peak Efficiency More and more, software is at the root of many businesses…

11 Lessons Learned from Agile Hardware Development
Abstract A previous paper by the author, Agile Processes for Hardware Development, argued that a Scrum process should be effective…

SAFe® Implementation for Global, Diversified Technology Company
Healthcare is big business, always changing, and rapidly accelerating. Technological advancements will continue to change how patient care is delivered…

2017 State of DevOps Report
Today, DevOps is an understood set of practices and cultural values that has been proven to help organizations of all…

Value Stream Optimization: SAFe® Case Study with SK Hynix
SK Hynix wanted to optimize their Value Streams by empowering people to self organize. They needed to improve product delivery…

Agile Processes for Hardware Development
Hardware and software development are quite different, in terms of the concrete developmental activities. Thus it might seem that…

Harvard Business Review: Agile Practices
By: Harvard Business Review Agile development practices have steadily risen to become a trusted and preferred method of development for…

UX in an Agile World
In a traditional waterfall work flow, User Experience (UX) specialists have plenty of time up front to research and incorporate…

A Real Release Planning Experience
Medium to large-size organizations that develop software products with a Scrum process typically have multiple Scrum Teams that must collaborate.…