Building Up and Tearing Down
Recently I put on a public Leading SAFe training. This wasn’t your typical training, however. In collaboration with Ron Quartel, we...
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Tom Perry
- May 8, 2019
- 2 min
Why Mixins?
“Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 23, 2019
- 3 min
A House for Hermit Crab
One of the wonderful things about being a parent is all of the children’s books you get to read. I never fail to be amazed at the...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 22, 2019
- 4 min
SAFe Mix-in’s: Open Space
Overview One of the interesting things about SAFe is how it has evolved over the years. The story there is very interesting. More so than...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 18, 2019
- 3 min
SAFe Mix-in’s: Radical Co-Location
Overview One of the biggest challenges that I often encounter on SAFe transformations is dispersed teams. A dispersed team is a team that...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 17, 2019
- 3 min
SAFe Mix-in’s: The Core Protocols
Overview For some organizations that prefer to have things really well explicitly defined or proscribed, especially if they are in a SAFe...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 16, 2019
- 4 min
SAFe Mix-in’s: Sociocracy
Overview What if you are a big fan of sociocracy or holocracy? Can you combine those practices with SAFe? Right now, when you look at...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 12, 2019
- 3 min
SAFe Mix-in’s: Role by Election
Overview Another modification to SAFe that we might make is role by election. Role by election is turning some of the role selection...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 11, 2019
- 4 min
SAFe Mix-in’s: No Prep PI Planning
Overview One of the issues that I’ve seen with doing big room planning (BRP) or Program Increment (PI) planning in SAFe is often people...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 10, 2019
- 3 min
SAFe: The Prescriptive Mirror
There are two attributes of SAFe that I think have really been instrumental to the success of SAFe as a framework. The first attribute is...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 9, 2019
- 4 min
SAFe Mix-in’s: #NoCoaching
Here’s a weird one: Today’s SAFe mix-in is called #NoCoaching (yes, I totally made that up, but hear me out). So one of the things that...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 7, 2019
- 6 min
SAFe Mix-in’s: Dynamic Re-Teaming
The next SAFe mix-in that I’d like to address is dynamic re-teaming. Dynamic re-teaming is a relatively radical agile innovation that...
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Tom Perry
- Apr 5, 2019
- 6 min
SAFe Mix-in’s: #NoEstimates
The idea behind #noestimates is that one of the biggest problems that many folks in the agile community face is the estimation process....
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Tom Perry
- Apr 2, 2019
- 5 min
SAFe Mix-ins: Mob Programming
I’d like to talk a little bit about SAFe mix-ins. SAFe mix-ins are innovative practices in the agile community that we can incorporate...
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Tom Perry
- Feb 28, 2019
- 3 min
The Poor Neglected Impediment
I wrote a book a few years ago about dealing with impediments on agile teams. It’s right there on the upper right of the page (I’ll give...
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Tom Perry
- Feb 10, 2019
- 2 min
Building a Scaled Agile Framework for Dummies
Scaled Agile Frameworks like SAFe are all the rage these days. You can go out now and get training, certification and a shave from a bevy...
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Tom Perry
- Feb 9, 2019
- 1 min
More SAFe Mix-ins
Based on the popularity of the first post on SAFe Mix-ins, here are a few more ideas for practices that you could mix and match with your...
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Tom Perry
- Feb 8, 2019
- 3 min
SAFe Mix-ins
At Agile Open Northwest I invited folks to a conversation that I called “Radical SAFe.” The idea was to look at ways to mix-in some of...
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Tom Perry
- Jan 16, 2019
- 5 min
Your Framework Sucks
We can learn the art of fierce compassion – redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing...
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