New Whitepaper: The Big Picture Of Enterprise Agility

Readers of this blog are likely aware that effectively implementing software agility at the enterprise level is no small feat. Even for the fully committed department or enterprise, it can take six months to a year to introduce and master many of the basic agile practices and a number of additional years to achieve the productivity [...]

Agile Release Train: A Whitepaper

Recently, I’ve been working with a  software enterprise helping them tune their agile process to better align the agile teams to the broader enterprise objectives. One particular subgroup has twelve agile teams, each of whom has a specific product mission in the marketplace. (Think “point products”). However, they must now also cooperate on building their [...]

Updated Big Picture Graphic

The Big Picture has evolved quite a bit over course of the Big Picture Series. Here’s the latest tip revision of the graphic. Refer to the series itself for elaborations.
5/09 Update: Added Portfolio Managers.
Changed “Release (PSI)” to “Release Increment” to better reflect the intent. No one understood what a PSI (Potentially Shippable Increment) was, and [...]

Enterprise Agility – The Big Picture (14b): More on Agile Portfolio Management and the Legacy Mindset

Note: This is part of a continuing series (see the Big Picture Category on this blog) wherein we introduced an overview graphic intended to capture the essence of enterprise agility in a single slide. In a series of continuing posts, we have been working our way from the bottom (stories, iterations and the like) to [...]

More on the Agile Release Train – Internal vs External Releases

In a number of posts, including Enterprise Agility – The Big Picture(5) The Release Revisited I’ve commented on the desirability of separating Internal Releases (or Potentially Shippable Increments) from External or General Availability Releases. Although not directly represented in the Big Picture itself, this is the assumption behind the Agile Release Train graphic in [...]

Enterprise Agility – The Big Picture (14a): On Agile Portfolio Management and the Legacy Mindset

Note: In the post Enterprise Agility: The Big Picture, we introduced an overview graphic intended to capture the essence of enterprise agility in a single slide. In a series of continuing post (see the Big Picture Category on this blog ) we have been working our way from the bottom (stories, iterations and the like) [...]

Enterprise Agility – The Big Picture (13 continued): Estimating Epics

Note: In the post Enterprise Agility: The Big Picture, we introduced an overview graphic intended to capture the essence of enterprise agility in a single slide. In a series of continuing post (see the Big Picture Category on this blog ) we have been gradually working our way from the bottom (stories, iterations and the [...]

Enterprise Agility- The Big Picture (13): Portfolio Vision & Epic

Note: In the post Enterprise Agility: The Big Picture, we introduced an overview graphic intended to capture the essence of enterprise agility in a single slide. In a series of continuing posts, too numerous to highlight here (see the Big Picture Category on this blog for an orderly summary)we have been gradually working our way [...]

Enterprise Agility-Big Picture (5): The Release Revisited

In the post, Enterprise Agility-The Big Picture (5): The Release, we described that seminal, value delivery construct of the Agile Release. (see Big Picture below).
But as with all the other oversimplifications in the Big Picture, (which at times seems to create almost as many questions as answers) comments and questions have been raised about what [...]

Enterprise Agility-The Big Picture (12): Architectural Runway

Note: In the post Enterprise Agility: The Big Picture, we introduced an overview graphic intended to capture the essence of enterprise agility in a single slide. In prior posts, we’ve discussed Agile Development Teams, Agile System Teams, Iterations , Agile Product Owner, Backlog, User Stories and the Iteration Backlog , Release , Vision and Release [...]