Category: project management

The Strategic Necessity of Enterprise Architecture in SAFe

Overview The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) excels at coordinating delivery across multiple teams and focuses on execution. In contrast, Enterprise Architecture (EA) delivers the framework which develops the capabilities which are necessary for planning and execution. Large-scale agile transformations often hit a "complexity ceiling" which cannot be understood and handled without EA concepts, methods and … Continue reading The Strategic Necessity of Enterprise Architecture in SAFe →

The triangle of the value-creation industry

A project is an activity, limited in time and scope, which transforms an organisation from an initial state into a target state. The project management triangle [1] correlates cost, time, scope and quality of a project and emphasizes that project management choices regarding these factors affect results. All interpretations of the project management triangle I'm … Continue reading The triangle of the value-creation industry →

Team topologies fix the Spotify model

The Spotify model The Spotify model [SPOM] describes an organisational structure which aims at maximising agility through removing friction. The building block of the Spotify model is the squad, a team which is responsible for the entire lifecycle of a product from inception to implementation, operation and retirement. Friction is removed by maximising squad autonomy: … Continue reading Team topologies fix the Spotify model →

Jugaad takes agile to the extreme

Introduction Jugaad is an attitude towards delivery which originated in India and consists of three simple tenets: Humility: use whatever works without prejudice Openness: keep your options open Frugality: small expenses keep regrets small Jugaad is agility taken to the extreme and most suitable for projects with a high degree of change, risk and uncertainty. … Continue reading Jugaad takes agile to the extreme →