I’ve been at two companies that use the Scaled Agile Framework to plan changes. At the first company I do not remember anybody actually calling it “SAFe”, but that model is essentially what we were doing. This is not a post about what SAFe is, there are many other resources that can explain the theory … Read more
It is difficult to balance being agile and not allowing scope-creep. Obviously, in an agile shop, we want to be agile with requirements. We get something in front of customers quickly. We react to what the customers say once they see the product in action. This means we reprioritize tickets, create new tickets, and otherwise … Read more
Small and quick. What is an Iteration? We may be familiar with this term from the Agile software development idiom. It basically stands for one pass over a thing. One iteration of a loop is one execution through the loop block. Likewise, in agile-speak, one iteration can be thought of as one execution over the … Read more