Agile rocked by turbulent times in tech : a series

At the time of this writing, there’s a flood of anti-agile posts on X and LinkedIn and continuous pressure on the supportive roles and structures for agile implementations, transformations, trainings — the whole “agile economy,” continuing the trend of the last few years. The view from agilemanifest.com is that “agility” is needed more than ever, … Read more

4 values, 12 principles – how do they hold up?

Twenty years on, the Agile Manifesto is controversial and provokes heated debate in some circles, shrugs in others. For some, it is an inspirational guiding document and revelation. For others, it’s out of date, or at least showing signs of wear. AgileManifest.Com is not affiliated with the Agile Manifesto, though all contributors have had considerable … Read more

SAFe 5.0 is out – is it a game changer?

The Scaled Agile Framework has about 30% market share of “named” frameworks, according to the 2019 VersionOne survey on the State of Agile. Given the marketing push around the update to 5.0 in January, it’s a fair guess that the SAFe will hold or gain share as the go-to framework when large organizations want to … Read more

Official Scrum Guide Updated!

November 2017, the official Scrum Guide was updated. http://www.scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html   See the “Parents of Scrum” Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber discuss the updates, with lots of interesting background and color commentary. https://www.scrum.org/resources/2017-scrum-guide-update-ken-schwaber-and-jeff-sutherland   The short guide itself and this video (runs just short of an hour) is fine primary source material.