Explore Agile at Scale, Leadership, Innovation, Coaching and Change
In this category of posts, discover the principles of Agile at Scale described in this blog as a combination of Spotify and SAFe, sometimes called Spotisafe. Those principles cover League, Agile Squad Design, Horizontal Management and the change in roles and responsibilities.
What is the definition and the value of Scaled Agile? And, how Agile at Scale combine market frameworks: the Spotify Model, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), Scrum of Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?
Understand the definition, the characteristics of an Agile Squad in Agile at Scale with a look on the relation with the production and architecture leagues. Then, review the key roles, especially the Scrum Master and the Product Owner.
Discover the definition and the characteristics of a Chapter and a Guild in Agile at Scale. Then, review the role of the Chapter Manager.
Learn the definition and the characteristics of a Tribe in Agile at Scale. Furthermore, see the role of the Tribe Manager.
Discover the definition and the characteristics of a Product Management Team in Agile at Scale. Then, learn how a PMT interacts with the Product Owners.
Go through the 3 types of synchronization mechanisms depending on the level of dependency between Agile Squads. Then, find out about the meta sprint that is the Agile at Scale meta iteration and the Agile at Scale ceremonies.
Understand the definition and the characteristics of a League in Agile at Scale. Firstly, point out the differences with a Chapter or a Guild. Secondly, review the role of the League Manager and the League Members.
Explore the principles of alignment on Value Chains. Firstly, limit the need for scaling agile when possible. Secondly, know how to align the Tribes and the Agile Squads on the Value Chains. At last, learn about the set up of an Agile Train for cross organization initiatives.
Understand vertical and horizontal managements. Then learn the reasons for going for horizontal management. Furthermore, explore the prerequisites of horizontal management and team empowerment. Find out what is the journey to Agile Squad’s autonomy.
Explore the roles and related responsibilities impacted in Agile at Scale. See how these responsibilities are reallocated.
Find out the change of paradigm on scope, budget, planning coming with Agile. Firstly, investigate the Agile at Scale impacts when aligning Agile Squads on Value Chains. Finally, review the proper set up for Project Management based on the level of dependencies between the Agile Squads.
Discover how Agile at Scale changes Project Portfolio Management. Then, check the benefits and limits in Agile at Scale when aligning Tribes to the related business. Review how to mitigate these limits.
How to deliver Agile development in a fixed price contract? And, how to mix Agile, Scrum and the Waterfall method in an Agile fixed price project?
How to articulate Sprint and Release Management? And, how to book capacity for Release Management when the contributors are working in the Sprints? At last, how to make sure Release Management tasks are properly delivered?
BVSSH stands for Better Value Sooner Safer Happier, which are the primary outcomes of an Agile transformation as described in the book Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility by Jonathan Smart.
What is Scenario Planning? How to develop scenarios? Where does Scenario Planning come from? And what is the connection with Strategy?
Scenario Planning from the Royal Dutch Shell Read More »
Team Topologies, in a nutshell, is an approach elaborated on the Conway’s law and the Cognitive Load Theory to support an optimal design of organizations for both business and technologies. Surely, Team Topologies enables fast flow and flexibility in product discovery and delivery.
The definition of cost of delay is the quantity of benefits you lose or gain if your product is late or early to enter the market. Furthermore, Don Reinertsen elaborated on this concept introducing the Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) that is calculated by dividing the Cost of Delay by the duration to build and deliver the product to the market.
Cost of Delay Divided by Duration (CD3) aka Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) Read More »
Review the 12 principles of Beyond Budgeting and the commonalities with Agile at Scale. Understand how and why it reconsiders traditional budgeting.
Beyond budgeting in Agile at Scale and Balanced Scorecard with OKRs Read More »
How to deliver Agile development in a fixed price contract? How to mix Agile, Scrum and the Waterfall method in an Agile fixed price project?
Agile fixed price project and contract Read More »
GAO agile assessment guide covers 3 areas of best practices for Agile: Team dynamics and activities, Program operations, and Organizational environment. Check this post to learn more!
What is the difference between Agile at Scale and Agile Enterprise by Darrell K. Rigby? What are the changes on Leadership, Planning and budgeting, Organization, Talent management, Processes and Technologies?
What is a digital platform? What is the digital platform strategy? Are Michael Porter’s 5 Forces still relevant for the digital platform economy?
What is Agile at Scale? What is the definition and the value of Scaled Agile? How Agile at Scale combine market frameworks: the Spotify Model, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), Scrum of Scrum, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?