What is agile? What does it mean to “be agile?” How do we go SAFe?
We, at BestBrains Academy, always love to share our experiences and thoughts on agile methodology – Here you find a selection of blog posts, podcasts, videos and agile posters for free downloadEnglish blog posts
The Agile Manifesto – 20 years later
In February 2001, the Agile Manifesto was published. In this post, we look at where the agile mindset actually changed the world and where we are today.
Lean-Agile Leadership and the SAFe Leadership Development Program
Summary of the We Are Movement and BestBrains Academy webinar with SAFe SPCT Carl Starendal and Dr Steve Mayner about Lean-Agile Leadership and the SAFe Leadership Development Program
Probabilistic Forecasting
How to use Cumulative Flow Diagrams and Monte Carlo simulations to manage feature flow and forecast delivery. Watch free webinar with Carl Starendal about Probabilistic Forecasting.
Videocast Pilot Episode – Broken Meetings
How to make meetings more joyfull, shorter and more productive.
BBA Partner, Bent Jensen and House catonist, Yuri Malishenko discuss the concept of broken meetings in this podcast with visual explanation.
How to improve your meetings as a Scrum Master
People don’t hate meetings. They hate bad meetings.
If you have an influence on your meetings, maybe if you are even responsible for some of them, read on and get some advice on how to make your next meeting more productive.
How to say “No” without using the word – 12 ways to challenge value
Have you experienced that it is sometimes hard as a Product Owner or Product Manager to say “No” to new ideas.
Quickly uncover if you need to spend more time on a new business request with 12 ways to challenge the value and start a dialogue about what is important.
What is new in SAFe 5.0, part 3 – Analysis
In this third and final blog, we do a little deeper analysis of why SAFe 5.0 looks the way it does and what this overall means for the framework SAFe and furthermore, the company Scaled Agile going forward.
Blogpost by Carl Starendal.
What is new in SAFe 5.0? Part 2
This is a summary and analysis of the preview on version 5.0 of the SAFe framework that was launched at the SAFe Summit in San Diego. In this part of the series, we will dive into the new elements of this version that wasn’t described in part 1. Blogpost by Carl Starendal.
What is new in SAFe 5.0?
This is a summary and analysis of the preview on version 5.0 of the SAFe framework that was launched at the SAFe Summit in San Diego. Blogpost by Carl Starendal.
Play a new role as Enterprise Architect
The Enterprise Architect must be able to inspire people to join the Quest for Right Solutions. Tell us the Why instead of the How. What are the principles and underlying assumptions that are most important? Get Bo Vincent Thomsen’s take on how you could play a new role as Enterprise Architect.
What does an Enterprise Architect do in SAFe?
In this blog post Bo Vincent Thomsen, who is teaching SAFe for Architects at BestBrains Academy, give his interpretation of the role as an Enterprise Architect in the Scaled Agile Framework®. This read is for you who would like to improve collaboration and alignment in a SAFe® Lean-Agile enterprise.
Don and I
If you are currently working with Agile and Lean methods and maybe aren’t getting exactly the results you had hoped for, Don Reinertsen’s book “The Principles of Product Development Flow” will help you understand why, and how to improve results.
SAFe – An introduction to Scaled Agile Framework
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) has made its victory around the world. SAFe provides a well-defined set of values, principles and practices which can be adopted enterprise-wide to better address scaling agile in big enterprises. Get your introduction to SAFe with this blogpost.
The Effective RTE: 10 key skills for every Release Train Engineer
Last week I visited the SAFe Summit in Washington and delivered my presentation about the RTE role in SAFe. In the presentation I called out what I have observed to be 10 critical skills (actually nine..) that every RTE need to build and master.
Don Reinertsen, batch sizes & WIP limits
During October we will at Bestrains Academy be hosting the Don Reinertsen two-day masterclass called “Achieving Product Development Flow” in Stockholm and Copenhagen. The workshop covers the ideas contained in his bestselling book, “The Principles of Product Development Flow”.
Danish blog posts
Kom i gang med relativ estimering og PlanningPoker
Velkommen til en introduktion til relative estimering og læs om hvordan dit team kommer hurtigt i gang. Download gratis BestBrains Academys PlanningPoker sæt til dit team.
Hvordan siger man ‘NEJ’ som Agile Product Owner, uden at bruge ordet…
Bliv bedre til at sige nej. Få her 12 forslag til hvordan man som Agile Product Owner eller Product Manager kan afvise features uden blot at falde i Nej-fælden.
Agile kontrakter
Agile kontrakter giver kunde og leverandør et økonomisk incitament til at samarbejde og nå effektivt i mål, og de stiller en række krav til begge parter.
Agil innovation – sæt brugeren i fokus
Agil innovation – sæt brugeren i fokus BestBrains afholdt i november 2016 et spændende seminar om agil innovation med John Stoddard som oplægsholder. John har et imponerende CV fra bl.a. Stanford(?) og IDEOs afdelinger i San Francisco og London og har tidligere været...
Vis mig dit burndown, og jeg skal sige dig, hvem du er
Burndown-diagrammer på både sprint og release niveau er almindelige visualiseringsværktøjer for Scrum teams. Få her en hurtig guide til hvordan de kan bruges i dette skriv.
Den gode Product Owner – Nøglen til succes
Evnen til at prioritere og kommunikere er afgørende egenskaber for en god Product Owner, der skal sikre, at udviklingen passer til forretningens behov.
Scaled Agile Framework® – Introduktion til SAFe
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) er det rammeværk, som i de seneste år har vundet den største udbredelse Man behøver ikke længere kigge misundeligt på kollegerne i de små adrætte opstartsvirksomheder. Alle kan anvende agil udvikling, til gavn for både medarbejdere og virksomheder. Få en introduktion til SAFe her.
Slides
The Agile Manifesto – 20 years later
In February 2001, the Agile Manifesto was published. In this post, we look at where the agile mindset actually changed the world and where we are today.
Vejen til det Højtydende Team
Stort tak til Finn Leander for at give inspiration og tanker omkring Højtydende teams. Download slides og få mere viden omkring hvordan du kan arbejde med dit team.
User Story Mapping slides 2019
Få inspiration til hvordan I effektivt nedbryder, prioriterer, afklarer og klargør opgaverne til jeres teams. Følgende slides er fra et cafe-møde hos Bestbrains Academy, hvor Jesper Thaning gav en introduktion til User Story Mapping.
