Kanban - an Alternative to Agile?
What is Kanban? A visual system for managing work (which constitutes the “value stream”) through a process. Kanban is the Japanese term...
SAFe as a Lean-Agile Enterprise Change Management Model
Change Management has always been in vogue but, for at least the least15 years of my transformation consulting experience its been the...
SAFe 4.0 Introduction
Creating organizational adaptive capacity and building enterprise agility for the fast-moving world is a hot topic right now. We're...
Why today's Leaders must be Lean-Agile Leaders
Today’s organizations require leaders that are developers of people/talent. David Marquet offers some lean-agile steps and a simple...
A Checklist of Value
We're running a SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (read, Lean-Agile Program Management) class 29-30 November 2016 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. You...
Practical Agile Program Management
We're running an Advanced Scrum Master course 29-30 November 2016 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. You can see the official course outline and...
Stop doing Agile! 9 words you must be comfortable with before pursuing agility.
There has been tremendous chatter in recent years about Agile. For a family of methods that has been seen as the “Hippie” approach for a...
Agile for non software and systems engineering
At a meeting of Vancouver Technology Leaders a few years ago now, I'll never forget my first interaction with the group. Conversation...
Management of Portfolios (MoP)
In response to a sudden surge of interest in Portfolio Management, we thought the following might help clarify things as the waters...
The Why, What and How of SAFe
Part 2 of 3 - The What? of SAFe Scaled Agile CEO, SAFe Founder and Chief Methodologist Dean Leffingwell tells us that SAFe "is a freely...
