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Is SAFe the next big thing?

If your into agile project management you've probably heard of SAFe - The Scaled Agile Framework. I'm hearing about more and more companies that are applying the principles so thought it probably about time that I wrote a  brief dummies guide to it :-) The dictionary definition reads... The Scaled Agile Framework SAFe™ is an interactive knowledge base system for implementing agile practices at enterprise scale. Does that clear it up? One of the problems I've often seen is how do you scale up agile? Scrum and Kanban works great in teams of up to about 8 people (give or take) or the two pizza rule... If you can't feel the team with 2 pizza's it's too big.... Or you have a greedy team. However many large organisations may have teams of 50+ developers working on products and this is where the SAFe framework really comes in. Put simply SAFe is a framework template designed to allow for agile practices to be scaled and importantly it's a framework that

Death by Power Point!

Hello loyal readers - I'm not going to apologise again for the time between posts.... it's my blog and if I want to be lazy I will be! It has been another busy few weeks (Ok that's an excuse)  but please keep reading and I promise the quality will improve soon! Anyway - I've just completed a two day training course ran by profesional presentation specialists  You Never Can Tell The course covered many aspects of presentational and communication techniques and I'd highly recommend it to anyone! I honestly feel this is a skill sadly lacking in many parts of society today and especially if I dare say.... without upsetting too many of my colleagues.... the IT community. I've been meaning to enrol upon such a course for a very long time to brush up on my technique and explore some new ideas especially as although perhaps not popular to say... I have a real hatred of Power Point!! <rant>This revelation  might shock some of you (especially with myself bei

SAFe - The Scaled Agile Framework..... Idiots guide!

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The Information Radiator

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