Release Train Engineer

Scrum of Scrums Feature – the solution you did not know you needed! Greetings from the Kendis team!  Here is a quick guide to our new Scrum of Scrums Feature. It will improve the tracking of impediments, dependencies, and accomplishments of…

During the Program Increment (PI) Planning, one of the most important activities is being able to understand, discuss and possibly mitigate inter-team dependencies. If not identified, these unknown dependencies would impact delivery of…

There have been many discussions about how to conduct Program Increment (PI) or Big Room planning. Initially, it was done in the format of being physically present and would last for 2-3 days in one location. With the arrival of the…

Agile is all about responding to change. That does not necessarily mean that we should leave everything to be done at an ad hoc basis which will eventually lead to a disaster at all developmental and management levels. Thus it is wise to…

Visibility and transparency are important when it comes to planning or tracking your work items in the Program Increment. All of the work items have stories, dependencies, risks and objectives and failing to correctly recognize or…

Tracking the progress of the Sprint or Program Increment is vital for any enterprise that is adopting an agile framework. Companies utilize digital boards to do this critical task which not only includes planning but monitoring features,…

PI objectives help to give a clear understanding of what needs to be done. Thus the information described in the PI objectives is effectively communicated to business owners and stakeholders, which also educates them on what will be the…

There are certain words and phrases that are used regularly within the “Agile World”. Alignment Transparency Get on the same page Predictability Flexibility Business Value For some, these words are anthems and a great consequence of their…

As Agile continues to evolve, new roles are emerging in order for companies to successfully scale agile. One of the more popular Agile scaling frameworks is the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). The SAFe framework defines a layered approach to…