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Unravel full potential with Business Agility

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020Agile, Business Insights, SAFeAgile, business agility, safe

Reading Time: 2 minutes Even long-standing enterprises, in today’s world of digital disruption, are not cushioned from threats coming from the external environment. Business Agility transformation allows organizations to develop a competitive advantage and stay ahead of disruption. It’s a complete transformation of process and culture that allows organizations to be a driver of innovation in their respective industries. A lot of organizations are going agile these days because Continue Reading

Auditing Agile Scrum Project

January 25, 2020January 25, 2020Agile, Project Management, SAFe, Scaled Agile, Scrum, Studio-Scala

Reading Time: 3 minutes Why Audit Agile Scrum Projects? Effective Audit helps uncover problems and ensure efficiency. Ensuring effective quality delivery of the project. Ensure best practices adherence. To perform a “due diligence” review for all impacted Stakeholders. Unearth Problem areas proactively and work on solution/improvement Provides objective insights and Evaluates Risks Allows to Get Rid of Inefficient Processes Assessment of gaps that lead to corrective and preventive measures Continue Reading

Program Increment – Day 2

November 7, 2019November 7, 2019Agile, SAFe, Scaled Agile, Scrum, Studio-Scala

Reading Time: 6 minutes In my previous blog we saw how RTE sets the agenda for Program Increment session. It was more focused on setting up of business context by Leadership team. Sharing the Architecture vision by the System Architect, and Team getting into breakouts and preparing the Draft Plan followed by Management Review. Let us see how Day 2 looks like in the Program Increment Planning. At the Continue Reading

Program Increment – Day 1

October 28, 2019October 28, 2019Agile, Project Management, SAFe, Scaled Agile, Scrum, software, Studio-Scala, Tech Blogs, Tutorial

Reading Time: 4 minutes Effective execution of Program Increment is very essential to reap true benefits. In my previous blog, we have seen what Program Increment is all about and what are the main factors to be considered while planning a Program Increment. Let us see how effectively we can use 2 days. In this blog we will see how do we execute Program Increment Day 1 in detail Continue Reading

Program Increment and It’s Planning

October 23, 2019October 23, 2019Agile, Project Management, SAFe, Scaled Agile, Scrum, software, Studio-Scala, Tech Blogs, Test Automation Studio, Tutorial

Reading Time: 4 minutes SAFe is no Magic except for Program Increment Planning. No event is as powerful in SAFe as Program Increment Planning. PI planning sets the platform for cadence for ART. In this blog we will see how to prepare for an effective Program Increment Planning session. Next Blog we will cover Day wise activities during the PI session. With large audience of 100 + people working Continue Reading

Agile Release Trains – ART – Organisation and Roles

September 22, 2019September 22, 2019Agile, Project Management, SAFe, Scaled Agile, Scrum, software, Studio-Scala, Test Automation Studio, Tutorial

Reading Time: 4 minutes Agile Release Trains are the heart of Essential SAFe in the similar way Essential SAFe configuration is the heart of the Framework. It is the simplest starting point for implementation. In this blog, we are going to talk about Agile Release Trains (ART). We will see how Agile Release Trains in itself is an organisation and also see important roles within ART. It describes the Continue Reading

Essential SAFe – “Implementation Starting Point”

September 18, 2019September 18, 2019Agile, Project Management, SAFe, Scaled Agile, Scrum, software, Studio-Scala, Test Automation Studio, Tutorial

Reading Time: 4 minutes In one of my initial blogs, we touch based on the 4 configuration that SAFe provides. These configurations can fit from small organisations to large enterprises. It is flexible enough for organisations to leverage to their specific needs. In this specific blog and the following blogs, we would deep dive into Essential SAFe. It is the starting point for SAFe implementation in the organisation. Essential Continue Reading