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 SAFe implementation: No Coaching – Train the managers and leave them in charge of the transformation Sociocracy – introduce Sociocracy No Prep PI Planning – Do a quick half day of training and then go straight into the PI Planning event Agile Chartering – Integrate concepts from Diana Larsen and Ainslie Nies book, Lift Off! Disciplined Agil

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 the more radical agile practices with a conventional SAFe transformation. By radical, I mean some of the more advanced practices that people have been experimenting with in our community. Examples that come to mind are things like dynamic re-teaming, mob programming, no estimates, and so on. You may or may not feel these practices deserve to b

Over the holidays I’ve been reading “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald Norman. It’s a wonderful read, but dense – it’s definitely “armchair and a pipe” material – you can’t rush it.  I came across this interesting quote regarding the nature of human thought: But human thought – and its close relatives, problem solving and planning – seem more rooted in past experience than in logical deduction. Mental life is not neat and orderly. It does not proceed smoothly and grace

Alastair Cockburn gave the opening keynote speech for the conference. He mentioned that the conference was a product of a local user group called the Salt Lake Agile Round Table. I looked it up and here is where you can find more information if you are interested: http://alistair.cockburn.us/Salt+lake+city If you live in Utah, you are very lucky to have a high powered group like this around. You can also find likes to other agile groups in the area as well as their mailing li