Hello everyone! Great news from Scaled Agile, Inc. (SAI) — the maker of SAFe. Read the image below. In that light, please go ahead and
Testimonials, Companies, Classes, and Registrations
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The Snowball Effect
Start with a small win. In ‘Sales’ they call this first small win the ‘icebreaker sale’. Toastmasters call their first speech as ‘icebreaker speech’. Want
FAB becomes BAF
Features and Benefits (FAB) is what we are all familiar with. With SAFe 5.0’s customer centricity, this FAB is now BAF… Benefits and Features. Makes
Program Board
Scrum Masters of teams to populate the program board!
SAFe is Goals Driven, Not Prescriptive
SAFe is goals driven and not prescriptive. A goal-driven approach makes SAFe flexible and easy to scale. Companies scale agile based on factors that deliver
A Goal With A Strong Why
A goal with a strong ‘Why’ will not only pulls you forward but also pulls you through difficult times. Make your ‘Iteration Goals’ and your
To All Veterans, Thank You
Let’s take a moment of silence, this Veterans Day, to remember, thank and honor all our veterans. Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently
Coach and Rugby
Coach and rugby teams in a scrum This blog post is dedicate to my SSM class of Nov – 9-10! I think that they love
Fresh and Desirable
Want desirable — fresh — salad? Create it with friends! You want desirable product? Apply design thinking … don’t do it alone… collaborate… create it
Variations
XP Scrum ScrumXP Kanban KanbanXP ScrumBan What else?
Be Lightweight
Only do what you need to do to create value for the customer!
We Choose To Go To The Moon
Here is a model you — Business Owners, Epic Owners, Solutions Managers, Program Managers, Product Managers — can aspire to when you paint an aspirational
From Intent To Objective To Goals
Intent is a ‘broad stoke of the brush’ kind of sketch of what you want to achieve… without providing instructions on how to achieve it…
Chilling with Hot Coffee
It’s good to have downtime once in a while to combat ‘staleness’. Give your team some slack… downtime… they’ll come back refreshed with greater energy.
Mirage
It looks like I’m shopping in New York … But it’s just a nice illusion… a mirage. Banish mirages — unreal stuff — in your
Congratulations To…
Wesley So — the first FIDE World Fischer Random Chess 2019 Champion ! Per Wikipedia: Wesley Barbasa So (born October 9, 1993) is a Filipino-American[1][2] chess grandmaster and current World
The Curse of Knowledge
A lot of us, once we get so proficient on something … and when we teach someone about that something, we tend to speed along
Sweet!
Sweet! That’s what I felt when I saw / reviewed SAFe 5.0! I had a great time reviewing it.
Mix it Up with XP
ScrumXP KanbanXP SAFe 5.0 is embracing XP! Very cool! Management + quality code. Build-in quality — a SAFe core value; with XP added to Scrum
Purpose, Intent, PI Objectives, Iteration Goals, and Strategy
Everyone has a purpose (an intent of what to accomplish (i.e. ‘CI = Commander’s Intent’ In the military realm) in mind on what to do
Kanban Swim lane
Other than having a Kanban board with swim lanes by ‘Classes of Service’, you may also want to use other swim lanes categorization scheme. Like…
A SAFe Product Manager is like …
A SAFe Product Manager is like a film director. Both seek out key people to collaborate with… they don’t do things alone. Diverging ideas will
Celebrate Life’s Significant Milestone
At El Paso Texas …
Design Thinking
I really like, very much, SAFe 5.0… smack in the middle of the framework is Design Thinking! A much needed element that is added to
Non Functional Requirement (NFR) — Enabler to Constraint
An NFR was once a Story… an Enabler (a type of a story) to ‘enable’ — like a needed piece of the puzzle to complete
Keep Learning, Keep Practicing, Keep Teaching
Learn… Practice… Teach! Learn something. Try it out … practice it. Stay with it… see it through good and bad times … complete something… Care
Trust that it will be done: Results is the name of the game!
ROWE versus WADE… My wife — a savvy and astute business woman… and a voracious reader on business and history — sent me a link
Strange…
Amazon sent me an email this weekend … with this photo I like this book a lot!
