Announcement – Lean Agile Guru

Dec

06

2023

Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race-Car?

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

I was at the mall and saw this race-car... I then sent these pictures I've taken (shown here) to my fellow founding partners at Applied Lean Agile ... and Steve responded back to my text with this: "Built for performance! Tuned for Efficiency! Engineered for Speed! -- How can we orient our Teams like this? With Quality Built-in to what they do?" Impressive thought! Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race Car? Is your SAFe Lean Agile Team and ART Built for Performance, Tuned for Efficiency, and Engineered for Speed?! If not... then how can…

Dec

05

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race-Car?

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

I was at the mall and saw this race-car... I then sent these pictures I've taken (shown here) to my fellow founding partners at Applied Lean Agile ... and Steve responded back to my text with this: "Built for performance! Tuned for Efficiency! Engineered for Speed! -- How can we orient our Teams like this? With Quality Built-in to what they do?" Impressive thought! Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race Car? Is your SAFe Lean Agile Team and ART Built for Performance, Tuned for Efficiency, and Engineered for Speed?! If not... then how can…

Dec

04

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race-Car?

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

I was at the mall and saw this race-car... I then sent these pictures I've taken (shown here) to my fellow founding partners at Applied Lean Agile ... and Steve responded back to my text with this: "Built for performance! Tuned for Efficiency! Engineered for Speed! -- How can we orient our Teams like this? With Quality Built-in to what they do?" Impressive thought! Is Your Agile Team and Agile Release Train (ART) Like This Race Car? Is your SAFe Lean Agile Team and ART Built for Performance, Tuned for Efficiency, and Engineered for Speed?! If not... then how can…

Dec

03

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Make It Small — Small Is Simple and Fast, And Increases Your Probabilities of Success

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

In Lean Agile, small is simple and fast ! "Why? And how small should it be?", you might ask. SAFe Lean Agile Principle #6 states: Make value flow without interruptions And accelerate the flow! One of the many flow accelerators is "Work in Smaller Batches". Why? The same "Why" we are moving away from Waterfall to Lean Agile: Faster feedback! Faster feedback is one of the primary reasons for working in smaller batches. The smaller the size, the faster teams can collect and evaluate the feedback to adjust. Think about it... Waterfall: One huge batch... and you can only see…

Dec

02

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Make It Small — Small Is Simple and Fast, And Increases Your Probabilities of Success

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

In Lean Agile, small is simple and fast ! "Why? And how small should it be?", you might ask. SAFe Lean Agile Principle #6 states: Make value flow without interruptions And accelerate the flow! One of the many flow accelerators is "Work in Smaller Batches". Why? The same "Why" we are moving away from Waterfall to Lean Agile: Faster feedback! Faster feedback is one of the primary reasons for working in smaller batches. The smaller the size, the faster teams can collect and evaluate the feedback to adjust. Think about it... Waterfall: One huge batch... and you can only see…

Dec

02

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- The Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do).…

Dec

01

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- The Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do).…

Nov

30

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do). In…

Nov

29

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do). In…

Nov

29

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do). In…

Nov

28

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do). In…

Nov

28

2023

By Clarence Galapon

SAFe Is Like a Lean Factory — Lean and Lean Thinking Take Center Stage

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

SAFe is a “Lean Agile Software Factory”. It is very much like the “Lean Factory” of the Industrial Revolution Era. It is fully funded, limited in capacity, and yields things of prioritized value. -- Lean Agile Guru One of the great things that SAFe 6.0 has is this: Lean and Lean Thinking take center stage! I am very ecstatic about Lean taking center stage with SAFe 6.0. I have been a Lean aficionado since the 1980s... and an Agilist since the 1990s... and I have had appreciation of this "Lean and Agile" pair back then (and I still do). In…

Nov

27

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Post-Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

26

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Post-Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

25

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Post-Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

24

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

23

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

22

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

21

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

20

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

19

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

18

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

17

2023

By Clarence Galapon

WIP Limit — Why Use It!?

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Can you imagine what a busy road looks like without "Traffic Cop" directing the traffic? Imagine there is no traffic light... The busy road becomes congested quite easily... and the number of cars going from point A to Point B in a span of time (the throughput) will be less... compared to... if the same busy road has a "Traffic Cop" directing the traffic, the number of cars going from point A to Point B in the same span of time (the throughput) will be more. The "Traffic Cop" is like the "WIP (Work In Process) Limit... both have the…

Nov

16

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Close The Lean Agile Software Factory?!

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Close the Factory?! Well… it is more like ‘Stop the production line!!! Problem has been encountered… let us fix this before it negatively affects the quality of our work down the line. This problem cannot persist.’ That is what we call in Lean, ‘Andon’. In SAFe, we have a similar time wherein we ‘Close the Lean Agile Software Factory’… to solve the topmost and significant problems that were encountered during the Planning Interval and ART Execution. The time is the last iteration of the Planning Interval: the IP Iteration… IP stands for Innovation and Planning. The ‘Factory’ is practically closed…

Nov

15

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Vintage Lean Plus Agile — Better Together

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 5.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

I saw a very cool Volkswagen -- it is not like the modern ones... it is antique-looking... vintage. I had to take photos of it... This car reminded me of Lean... Classic Lean...not the Lean-Six Sigma thingy... but the Lean that came up after World War II. Just like this car, Classic Lean is timeless... I love it! Now... pair Lean with Agile... you get an awesome duo: Lean Agile... these two are better together! SAFe 6.0 likes this duo... hence they named their 10 SAFe principles as "10 SAFe Lean Agile Principles". Do you think that your initiatives will…

Nov

14

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Slow Down

Announcement, New Book, SAFe 6.0, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

In SAFe, there's an IP Iteration -- the last Iteration in a Planning Interval (PI). This is where, among other things, we focus on Innovation... and Planning for the next PI. It has a "Slow Down" effect... a needed "Oasis" between long Planning Intervals. After the 2-day Punta Fuego trip, there is an upcoming three-day long trip ahead of us. We needed an “Oasis” between these long trips. We had to slow down. So, we had the following "Oasis": At BGC: At Greenbelt, Makati: Key Idea: Slow down... delight in the things you can see only when you slow down.…

Nov

13

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

12

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Veterans Day and Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

11

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Veterans Day and Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…

Nov

10

2023

By Clarence Galapon

Veterans Day and Thanksgiving Sale!!!

Announcement, SAFe 6.0, SAFe 6.o Practice, SAFe Is Like…, Travel

Greetings! SAFe 6.0 Practice, is an important part 2 of my earlier-released book, SAFe (6.0) Is Like… — which reached #1 New Release and #1 Best Seller on Amazon.com, several times. This book, SAFe 6.0 Practice, gives you insights to unshackled practice (actual application) of SAFe and Lean Agile. Would you like to know and understand SAFe and Lean Agile so you can implement these to fit exactly to your context and ecosystem… and not the other way around? Unshackle yourself and your organization from the “by the book” approach to implementing SAFe and Lean Agile. Instead, be guided by fundamentals: Principles and Values. SAFe…