The Program Level is the center of responsibility that is focused on an application area. Work is comprised of releases, enhancements, production support, and maintenance requests. This level also is responsible for program ecosystem and operational metrics.

The Program Level is the center of responsibility that is focused on an application area. Work is comprised of releases, enhancements, production support, and maintenance requests. This level also is responsible for program ecosystem and operational metrics.

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"Sustainability" in Test-Driven Development (Article)
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A Collection of Random Thoughts (Article)
A Lean Approach to Scrum (Article)
A Learning Path to Becoming a Disciplined Agile Trainer (Article)
A Lightweight, Lean Approach to Agile at Mid-Scale (100-1000 people in technology) (Article)
A Minimal Set of Concepts All Agilists Should Know (Article)
A Note from Al Shalloway (Article)
A Primer on Emergent Design (Article)
A Simple Guide to See if a Change Will Be an Improvement (Article)
A Twitter Storm on Adopting Scrum (Article)
About the ADM and TDM Roles (Article)
About the Lean-Agile Portal (Article)
Acceptance Test-Driven Development (Article)
Acceptance Test-Driven Development (Article)
Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) (Article)
Acceptance Test-Driven Development (Example) (Article)
Acceptance Test-Driven Development: A Quick Introduction (Blog Entry)
Achieve Cross-Functional Teams to the Greatest Extent Possible (Article)
Achieving Business Agility at Small to Mid-Scale (Book in work) (Article)
Achieving Flow Across Multiple Teams with Lean-Agile Thinking (Article)
Admin Pages (Article)
Adopting SAFe® at Small to Mid-Scale (Overview) (Article)
Adopting SAFe® at Small to Mid-Scale (in Depth) (Article)
Advice from the Gang of Four (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced) (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced): Coordinating Teams with Backlog Management (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced): Different Agile Mindsets (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced): Driving from Business Value (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced): Important Concepts in Lean-Agile Coaching (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced): Manage Workflow, Not People (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced): Mid-size Organizations (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced): Mindsets Overview (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced): Need for a New Type of Coach (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced): Overview of Roles (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced): Resources for Coaching Lean and Kanban (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced): Starting Agile (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced): Successful Pilots Can Hurt Going Agile (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced): The Lean Mindset (Article)
Agile Coach (Advanced): Where to Begin (Article)
Agile Coach (Basic) (Article)
Agile Coach (Basic): Activities (Article)
Agile Coach (Basic): Approach (Article)
Agile Coach (Basic): Basic Agile Coach Resources (Article)
Agile Coach (Basic): Coaching Tips (Article)
Agile Coach (Basic): Competencies (Article)
Agile Coach (Basic): Facilitation (Article)
Agile Coach (Basic): Overview of Roles (Article)
Agile Coach (Basic): Trim Tabs (Article)
Agile Practices Every Developer Can Do To Help Their Team (Article)
Agile Product Management | FLEX from Product Management to the Team (Article)
Agile at Large-Scale (Article)
Agile at Mid-Scale (Article)
Agile at Mid-Scale book ToC (Article)
Agile at Scale (Article)
Agile at Scale Clinic (Article)
Agile at Scale Increases Business Value (Article)
Agile at Scale: Overview (Article)
Agile at Scale: Topical Index (Article)
Al Shalloway at Agile2018 (Article)
Aligning Organizations at Scale (Article)
Aligning Work Around Business Value (Webinar Sessions) (Article)
Aligning the Organization with Strategic Planning and Lean Portfolio Management (Article)
Alternatives to Scrum of Scrums (Article)
An Agile Parable (Article)
An Executive’s Guide to Agile | Effective Agile at Scale (Article)
An Executive’s Guide to Agile | Effective Agile at Scale (Blog Entry)
An Introduction to Lean-Agile Software Development (Article)
An Overview of FLEX (FLow for Enterprise Transformation) (Article)
Analysis Matrix and the Abstract Factory (Article)
Analyzing Capabilities and Challenges (Article)
Appendix (Article)
Application Development Manager (Article)
Application Development Manager Library (Article)
Application Development Manager Role (Article)
Application Development Manager: Alternatives (Article)
Application Development Manager: Overview of Roles (Article)
Application Development Manager: Responsibilities (Article)
Application Development Manager: Standard Work (Article)
Architecture (Article)
Are We Using Automated Acceptance Tests? (Article)
Articles (Article)
Articles - Premium (Article)
Articles - Public (Article)
Ask Powerful Questions (Article)
Assumptions, Postulates and Hypotheses - What Is Your Framework Based On? (Article)
At What Pace Should We Transition? (Article)
Attending to Culture (Article)
Attending to Flow Through the Development Group (Blog Entry)
Attending to the Customer's Value Stream (Article)
Avoiding Over and Under Design in Agile Projects (Webinar Session) (Article)
Be Clear What Teams Are Working On (Article)
Benefits of Acceptance Test-Driven Development using Behavior-Driven Development (Article)
Blogs (Article)
Blogs Organized by Topic (Article)
Books (Article)
Books by Net Objectives (Article)
Brief Review of Object-Oriented Mechanics (Article)
Bringing Your Internal Coaching to the Next Level (Blog Entry)
Business Analyst (Article)
Business Value, the Forgotten Goal (Webinar Session) (Article)
Capability (Article)
Carry-Over Work (Article)
Case For Unit Testing (Article)
Case Study of How We Created Scrum with Agile Requirements (Article)
Cause and Effects to Look For and How to Use Them (Article)
Challenging the Assumption That One Must Get Teams to Work First (Article)
Checkout-Result (Article)
Choosing Requirement Format (Article)
Coaching and Transformation Clinic (Article)
Coaching and Transformation Clinic: Topical Index (Article)
Coaching, Teaching and Adoption (Article)
Code Developer Skills: Disciplines (Article)
Code Qualities (Article)
Code Qualities (Article)
Code of Conduct and Privacy Policy (Article)
Collaboration and Alignment (Article)
Common Challenges Faced by Teams New to Scrum, Remedies to These Challenges, and Related FAQs (Article)
Common Challenges to Flow (Article)
Commonality-Variability Analysis (Article)
Complexity is not what it used to be (Article)
Components of a Good Team Board (Article)
Composite Pattern (Article)
Contents Moved (Article)
Continuous Improvement (Article)
Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (Article)
Contrasting Epics and MBIs (Article)
Contrasting the Daily Scrum with Kanban's Daily Retrospective (Article)
Controlling Work-in-Process (WIP) (Article)
Conway’s Law and Corollary (Article)
Coordinating Teams with Backlog Management (Article)
Core (Primary) Inflection Points (Article)
Core (Secondary) Inflection Points (Article)
Core Decision Inflection Points (Article)
Core Developer Skills (Article)
Core Developer Skills: Code Qualities (Article)
Core Developer Skills: Code Qualities: Avoiding Redundancy (Article)
Core Developer Skills: Code Qualities: Cohesion (Article)
Core Developer Skills: Code Qualities: Coupling (Article)
Core Developer Skills: Code Qualities: Encapsulation (Article)
Core Developer Skills: Code Qualities: Focus (Article)
Core Developer Skills: Code Qualities: Readability (Article)
Core Developer Skills: Code Qualities: Testability (Article)
Core Developer Skills: Patterns (Article)
Core Developer Skills: Practices (Article)
Core Developer Skills: Principles (Article)
Core Developer Skills: Wisdom (Article)
Cost of Delay (Article)
Course Support (Article)
Course: Design Patterns Thinking (Article)
Course: Sustainable TDD (Article)
Create Clarity on What Represents Value for the Business and Its Customers (Article)
Create Clarity on What Represents Value for the Business and Its Customers (Article)
Creating Effective Value Streams (Article)
Creating Feedback to Avoid Chaotic Events Is More Useful than Attending to Complexity (Article)
Creating a Roadmap with FLEX (Article)
Cross-Functional Teams: Improving Communication Between People who Work Together (Case Study) (Article)
Cross-Team Collaboration and Integration Patterns (Article)
DA FLEX and SAFe (Article)
DA VSC - Quick Reference (Blog Entry)
DA VSC Playbook for when there is no well-defined intake process (Article)
DA VSC Quick Reference (Article)
DAVSC Background and Parallel Learning (Article)
Daily Standups (Article)
Dealing With Complexity (Article)
Dealing with Complexity by Creating a Bias For Simplicity (Article)
Deciding If and How to Use SAFe at Small to Mid-Scale with FLEX (Article)
Decomposing Requirements (Article)
Decomposing Requirements: Activities (Article)
Decomposing Requirements: Artifacts (Article)
Decomposing Requirements: Choosing a Requirement Format (Article)
Decomposing Requirements: Decomposing a Capability into MBIs (Article)
Decomposing Requirements: Decomposing a Feature into Stories (Article)
Decomposing Requirements: Decomposing an MBI into Features (Article)
Decomposing Requirements: Essential Concepts (Article)
Decomposing Requirements: Meetings (Article)
Decomposing Requirements: Resources (Article)
Decomposing Requirements: Roles (Article)
Decomposing Requirements: Writing Tasks (Article)
Decomposing Requirements: Writing a Capability (Article)
Decomposing a Capability Into MBIs (Article)
Decomposing a Feature Into Stories (Article)
Decomposing an MBI into Features (Article)
Deeper Studies for Those on Their Agile Journey (Article)
Defining MBIs Pattern Group (Article)
Defining an MBI based on balancing value delivered sooner Vs potential extra development cost. (Article)
Definition of Ready and Different Ways to Use It (Article)
Delivering the Most Value from Available Resources (Article)
Dependency Management, Collaboration and Planning at Small-Scale (Article)
Design Patterns (Article)
Design Patterns Explained (Article)
Design Patterns Explained - Annotated Table of Contents and Related Articles (Article)
Design Patterns Explained - Review Questions and Answers (Article)
Design Patterns Explained A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design (2nd Edition) (Article)
Design Patterns Explained C++ Code Examples (Article)
Design Patterns Explained C++ Code Examples - Chapter 10: The Bridge Pattern (Article)
Design Patterns Explained C++ Code Examples - Chapter 11: The Abstract Factory Pattern (Article)
Design Patterns Explained C++ Code Examples - Chapter 17: The Decorator Pattern (Article)
Design Patterns Explained C++ Code Examples - Chapter 18: The Observer Pattern (Article)
Design Patterns Explained C++ Code Examples - Chapter 21: The Singleton Pattern (Article)
Design Patterns Explained C++ Code Examples - Chapter 4: A Standard Object-Oriented Solution (Article)
Design Patterns Explained C++ Code Examples - Chapter 7: The Adapter Pattern (Article)
Design Patterns Explained C++ Code Examples - Chapter 9: The Stategy Pattern (Article)
Design Patterns Explained Java Code Examples (Article)
Design Patterns Explained Java Code Examples - Chapter 10: The Bridge Pattern (Article)
Design Patterns Explained Java Code Examples - Chapter 11: The Abstract Factory Pattern (Article)
Design Patterns Explained Java Code Examples - Chapter 17: The Decorator Pattern (Article)
Design Patterns Explained Java Code Examples - Chapter 18: The Observer Pattern (Article)
Design Patterns Explained Java Code Examples - Chapter 1: The Object-Oriented Paradigm (Article)
Design Patterns Explained Java Code Examples - Chapter 21: The Singleton Pattern and the Double-Checked Locking Pattern (Article)
Design Patterns Explained Java Code Examples - Chapter 4: A Standard Object-Oriented Solution (Article)
Design Patterns Explained Java Code Examples - Chapter 7: The Adapter Pattern (Article)
Design Patterns Explained Java Code Examples - Chapter 9: The Strategy Pattern (Article)
Design Patterns Explained, First Edition Errata (Article)
Design Patterns and Agile Architecture at Scale (Article)
Designing the Kanban Board (Article)
DevOps Library (Article)
Developer (Article)
Developer Library (Article)
Developer Practices: Carry-Over Work (Article)
Developer Practices: Controlling Work-in-Process (Article)
Developer Practices: Daily Stand-ups (Article)
Developer Practices: Estimation (Article)
Developer Practices: Issues of Quality (Article)
Developer Practices: Iteration Planning Meeting (Article)
Developer Practices: Iteration Retrospective (Article)
Developer Practices: Product Demo and Review (Article)
Developer Practices: Types of Tests for Code (Article)
Developer Practices: Visual Controls (Article)
Developer Practices: Writing Tasks (Article)
Developer: Alternatives for the Role (Article)
Developer: Growing in the Role (Article)
Developer: Overview of Roles (Article)
Developer: Practices (Article)
Developer: Resources (Article)
Developer: Responsibilities (Article)
Developer: Standard Work (Article)
Development Group Organization Patterns (Article)
Differences Between the Different Frameworks / Approaches (Article)
Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (Article)
Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant Q&A Program (Article)
Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant Workshop Layout and Study Guide (Article)
Disciplines and Practices Library (Article)
Do We Have So Much Technical Debt That We Need to Pay Some Down Before Proceeding? (Article)
Do We Push, Plan or Pull Our Work? (Article)
Double-Loop Learning (Article)
Downloadable Course Materials (Article)
Dynamic Feature Teams: Creating Small Mobs Within a Large Group (Case Study) (Article)
Ecosystem (Article)
Effective Agile at Scale (Webinar Sessions) (Article)
Eight Steps to Improved Scrum (Article)
Elaborating SAFe® (Webinar Sessions) (Article)
Emergent Architecture (Article)
Emergent Design (Article)
Emergent Design (Article)
Emergent Design: The Evolutionary Nature of Professional Software Development (Article)
Encapsulate That! (Article)
Encapsulate That! (Article)
Encapsulating Construction (Article)
Encapsulating Construction (Article)
Encapsulation of Entities (Adapter, Proxy, Facade) (Article)
Ensuring Teams Are Working on the Right Stories (Article)
Essential Aspects for Training New Scrum Teams (Article)
Essential Skills for the Agile Developer: A Guide to Better Programming and Design (Article)
Essential Thoughts and Questions by Al Shalloway (Article)
Estimation (Article)
Estimation (Article)
Example RACI Chart for Lean-Agile Roles (Article)
Explore Your Role (Article)
Explore the Developer Role (Article)
Explore the Product Owner Role (Article)
Explore the Team Agility Coach Role (Article)
Explore the Technology Delivery Manager Role (Article)
Explore the Tester Role (Article)
Extending Scrum to Leanban (Article)
Extending Scrum to Leanban: Background (Article)
Extending Scrum to Leanban: Building on Insights (Article)
Extending Scrum to Leanban: Leanban Practices (Article)
Extending Scrum to Leanban: Resources (Article)
FLEX Consultants and Trainers (Article)
FLEX Essentials Reading List (Article)
FLEX FAQs (Article)
FLEX Partners (Article)
FLEX Resources (Article)
FLEX Solutions (Article)
FLEX Steps for Transformation (Article)
FLEX Technical Partners (Article)
FLEX Updates (Article)
FLEX and SAFe Essentials (Article)
FLEX and Technical Agility (Article)
FLEX and the Value Stream (Article)
FLEX as an Operating Model (Article)
FLEX for the Disciplined Agilist: FLow for Enterprise Transformation (online book) (Article)
FLEX from Product Management to the Team (Webinar Sessions) (Article)
FLEX: FLow for Enterprise Transformation (Article)
FLEX: FLow for Enterprise Transformation (Article)
Facilitation (Article)
Facilitation: Attributes of a Facilitator (Article)
Facilitation: Concepts (Article)
Facilitation: Resources for Facilitators (Article)
Facilitation: Tips (Article)
Factor for Simplicity: Create Visibility of Work and Workflow (Article)
Factors For Simplicity Include (Article)
Factors for Effective Value Streams (Article)
Factors to Consider When Attempting to Teach Something (Article)
Favorite Quotes (Article)
Flowing Within a Time-box (Article)
Focus on Finishing Stories in the Sprint and on Finishing MBIs in the Business Increment (Article)
Focused Solutions Team (Article)
Forum (Article)
Foundations for Agile at Scale (Article)
Foundations of Lean (Article)
Four Things You Must Do At Scale (Blog Entry)
Framework (Article)
Free Content Security Zone (securityzone)
Free Content Security Zone Access (securitygroup)
Further Information on Leanban (Article)
Gauging Your Progress (Article)
Getting Out of the Trap of Scrum (Article)
Getting Started with Team-Agility or Scrum (Article)
Glossary of Lean-Agile Terms (Article)
Go for Understandable, Not Simple (Article)
Going Beyond Scrum, Part 1 (Blog Entry)
Going Beyond Scrum, Part 2 (Blog Entry)
Groupthink and Fear as Team Killers (Blog Entry)
Guardrails (Article)
Guardrails for Different Roles in the Organization - THIS IS IN THE NETO WIP ZONE (Article)
Guardrails for the Team and Agile Coach (Scrum/Kanban Master) (Article)
Guest (securitygroup)
Guests (securitygroup)
Have an Effective Intake Process (Article)
High Level Release Planning - Pareto vs Parkinson (Article)
History of FLEX (Article)
History of FLEX from Insights Learned (Article)
History of FLEX from Quotes and Insights (Article)
Home Page (Archive) (Article)
How Are We Managing Our Transition / Implementation? (Article)
How Can We Coordinate Multiple Teams? (Shared Backlogs) (Blog Entry)
How Can We Deliver the Most Value from Available Resources? (Blog Entry)
How DA FLEX is different from other Agile approaches (Article)
How Do We Align People / Teams to the Work To Be Done? (Article)
How Do We Ensure There Is a Focus on Finishing? (Article)
How Does Agile at Scale Increase the Delivery of Business Value? (Blog Entry)
How Easily Can We Import a Lean or Agile Framework Into the Organization? (Blog Entry)
How Is Integration Across Teams Being Handled? (Article)
How Is Work Within the Program Being Sequenced? (Article)
How Lean Thinking Helps Scrum (Article)
How People Learn (Article)
How Should We Coordinate Teams? (Article)
How Should We Manage the Number of Items in the Portfolio? (Article)
How Should Work at the Portfolio Level Be Sequenced? (Article)
How Should the Intake Process Be Controlled? (Article)
How Small Are Our Stories? (Article)
How Using MBIs Ties Strategies, the Intake Process, ATDD, and Planning Together (Article)
How Value-Driven Organizations Gain Visibility as They Scale Agile (Webinar Session) (Article)
How Will Architectural Capabilities Be Handled? How Will Architecture Be Prioritize Against Business Needs? (Article)
How Will DevOps Be Involved? (Article)
How Will Shared Services Be Handled? (Article)
How Will Tactical Work Be Handled? (Article)
How Will Teams Work and Deliver Together? (Article)
How Will UX Work With the Teams? (Article)
How Will We Create Visibility Throughout the Program? (Article)
How Will We Express, Decompose and Validate Requirements? (Article)
How Will We Make Visible Our Work at the Program Level? (Article)
How Will We Make the Work at the Portfolio Level Visible? (Article)
How do Agile Roles Correspond to Previous Roles? (Article)
How do We Maximize Value Across Many Programs / Portfolios? (Blog Entry)
How to Adopt Scrum Effectively (Article)
How to Decide Whether to Start with ATDD or TDD (Article)
How to Grow Effective Scrum Masters and Agile Team Coaches (Article)
How to Improve or Change Your Practices (Article)
How to Ruin a Software Development Organization by Focusing on Throughput (Article)
How to Start with ATDD using BDD (Article)
How to Use Estimates (Article)
How to Use Scrum in Mid to Large Scale Organizations (Article)
How to Use the Program Board Builder (Article)
How to improve your virtual teams by understanding why co-located, cross-functional teams work (Article)
Identifying Classes of Service (Article)
If We Do Estimate, What Estimation Method Should We Use? (Article)
Impediments to Progress and Quality (Article)
Implementation Patterns (Article)
Implementation and Integration (Article)
Implementation and Integration (Article)
Improve Kanban With Leanban (Article)
Improve Scrum with Leanban (Article)
Improve the Efficiency of the Technology Group (Article)
Improving Frameworks by Attending to Patterns of Failure (Article)
Improving Frameworks with Operating Models (Article)
Improving SAFe's WSJF (Article)
Improving Your Value Creation Structure (Article)
In Transformations, Attend to Human Psychology (Article)
Inflection Point System (Article)
Innovation in Software Development Is Leveraged by Laws (Article)
Instructor/Coach Attitude Checklist (Article)
Intended Work and Wasted Work (Article)
Introduction To Refactoring (Article)
Introduction to FLEX (Article)
Introduction to FLEX (Article)
Introduction to Team Agility (Article)
Is Scrum applicable for your team? (Article)
Is This a Transition or an Implementation? (Article)
Issues With Quality (Article)
Iteration 0 - Conduct (Article)
Iteration 0 - Facilitate (Article)
Iteration Planning Meeting (Article)
Iteration Planning Meeting - Facilitate (Article)
Iteration Retrospective - Conduct (Article)
Iteration Retrospective - Facilitate (Article)
Iterations (Article)
Just-In-Time (Article)
Justifying TDD (Blog Entry)
Kanban (Article)
Laws of , Lean and Theory of Constraints (Article)
Laws of Flow, Lean and Theory of Constraints (Article)
Leadership and Management Clinic (Article)
Leadership and Management Clinic: Topical Index (Article)
Lean Leadership and Systems Thinking (Article)
Lean Portfolio Management (Blog Entry)
Lean Portfolio Management (Article)
Lean Principles and Practices (Article)
Lean Product Management (Article)
Lean Software Strategies: Proven Techniques for Managers and Developers (Article)
Lean-Agile Acceptance Test-Driven Development (Article)
Lean-Agile Budgeting (Blog Entry)
Lean-Agile Clinics (Article)
Lean-Agile Coach Library (Article)
Lean-Agile Development: From Team to Stream (Article)
Lean-Agile Pocket Guide for Scrum Teams, Second Edition Online (Article)
Lean-Agile Product Management (Article)
Lean-Agile Product Management (Article)
Lean-Agile Product Management (Article)
Lean-Agile Software Development: Achieving Enterprise Agility (Article)
Lean-Agile Straight Talk Podcast (Article)
Lean-Agile Team Checklists (Article)
Lean-Agile at the Team (Article)
Lean-Agile at the Team: A Lean Approach to Scrum and Kanban (Book in work) (Article)
Leanban (Article)
Leanban Primer (Article)
Leanban in Depth (Article)
Learning Support (Article)
Lessons and the Future (Webinar Series) (Article)
Lessons and the Future (Webinar Sessions) (Article)
Library and Resources (Article)
Lightning Webinars (Article)
Log In (Article)
MBI Include (Article)
Making Scrum Easier to Master (Article)
Making Scrum Easier to Master With Disciplined Agile (Blog Entry)
Manage Work-in-Process (WIP) by Focusing on Finishing (Article)
Management and Trust (Blog Entry)
Managing Large and Small MBIs (Article)
Managing Lean-Agile Clinic (Article)
Maximizing Value Across Many Programs (Article)
Meetings for Lean-Agile (Article)
Memento Pattern (Article)
Metrics (Article)
Metrics (Article)
Mid-Scale Support System (Article)
Middle Management and Lean-Agile (Blog Entry)
Middle Up Down Management (Article)
Mindsets (Article)
Minimum Business Increments (MBIs) (Article)
Mock Objects/Mock Turtles (Article)
Monthly Subscription (Article)
Multiple Application Teams Working with Multiple Platform Teams (Article)
NUnit Fundamentals (Article)
Net Objectives Consultants (securitygroup)
Net Objectives Thoughts (asset-type)
Net Objectives Thoughts (Article)
Net Objectives View of Scrum (Article)
Net Objectives books (asset-type)
Northwestern Mutual Case Study: A SAFe Implementation Retrospection (Article)
Object Pool (Article)
Objects In Chains! (Article)
Online Course Registration (Article)
Online Learning (Article)
Operating Models (Article)
Overview of Lean-Agile Software Development (Article)
Overview of Roles (Article)
Overview of the Scrum Guide (Article)
PART X: Using FLEX to Both Enhance and Simplify Scrum (Article)
Page included at top of DA Pages (Article)
Page included in Going Beyond Lean-Agile (Article)
Pages (Article)
Part II: The Goal Is Business Agility (with exercises) (Article)
Part III: The Goal Is Business Agility: What’s in Your Way? (Article)
Part IV: FLEX As a Patterns Framework (Article)
Part IV: Topics in depth: Practices and Roles (Article)
Part IX: Topics in Depth - Practices (Article)
Part V: Improving Challenges By directed Actions (Article)
Part V: New Roles Needed (Article)
Part V: Using FLEX to Transform Your Organization (with exercises) (Article)
Part VIII: Topics In Depth - Value Stream Wide (Article)
Part XI: Using FLEX to both enhance and simplify SAFe (Article)
Part XII: Additional Resources on the Net Objectives Portal (Article)
Patterns And Forces (Article)
Patterns And Forces II (Article)
Payment Confirmation (Article)
Perspectives In Object-Oriented Design (Article)
Planning, Collaboration and Dependency Management (Article)
Planning, Collaboration and Dependency Management (Article)
Playbooks Provided for Categories of Challenges (Article)
Portal Upgrades (Article)
Portfolio Level (Article)
Portfolio Level Supportive Inflection Points (Article)
Posts (Article)
Practices (Article)
Pre-work for the DA Value Stream Consultant Workshop (Article)
Preface (Article)
Prefactoring Extreme Abstraction, Extreme Separation, Extreme Readability (Article)
Premium Content (Article)
Premium Content Free for Three Months (Article)
Premium Content Monthly Subscription (Article)
Premium Content Zone (securityzone)
Premium Content with Six Month Discount (Article)
Premium Content: Registration Failed (Article)
Premium Registered and Free Content Security Zone Access (securitygroup)
Preparing Executives, Directors, Managers, and Product Managers for Agile (Article)
Principles And Practices (Article)
Principles all Agile Teams Should Be Using (Article)
Principles and Practices (Article)
Process and Culture (Article)
Product Demonstration and Review - Facilitate (Article)
Product Demonstration and Review - Plan (Article)
Product Manager (Article)
Product Manager Library (Article)
Product Manager and Product Owner (Case Study) (Article)
Product Manager: Acceptance TDD (Article)
Product Manager: Alternatives for the Role (Article)
Product Manager: Choosing a Requirement Format (Article)
Product Manager: Decomposing a Capability into MBIs (Article)
Product Manager: Decomposing an MBI into Features (Article)
Product Manager: Estimation (Article)
Product Manager: Iteration 0 (Article)
Product Manager: Iteration Planning Meeting (Article)
Product Manager: Meetings (Article)
Product Manager: Overview of Roles (Article)
Product Manager: Practices (Article)
Product Manager: Product Demo and Review (Article)
Product Manager: Resources for the Product Manager (Article)
Product Manager: Responsibilities (Article)
Product Manager: Writing a Capability (Article)
Product Owner (Article)
Product Owner Library (Article)
Product Owner: Acceptance TDD (Article)
Product Owner: Alternatives for the Role (Article)
Product Owner: Daily Stand-ups (Article)
Product Owner: Estimation (Article)
Product Owner: Iteration 0 (Article)
Product Owner: Iteration Planning Meeting (Article)
Product Owner: Iteration Retrospective (Article)
Product Owner: Meetings (Article)
Product Owner: Operational Metrics (Article)
Product Owner: Overview of Roles (Article)
Product Owner: Practices (Article)
Product Owner: Product Demo and Review (Article)
Product Owner: Product Demo and Review - Plan (Article)
Product Owner: Resources for the Product Owner (Article)
Product Owner: Responsibilities (Article)
Product Planning and Review - Conduct (Article)
Product Portfolio Management: Essential for Agile at Scale (Blog Entry)
Products (Article)
Program Level (Article)
Program Level Supportive Inflection Points (Article)
Programming by Intention and Testing Encapsulated Behavior (Article)
Promises by Leadership and Management (Article)
Putting it Together: FLEX and SAFe® (Article)
Qualities of an Effective Approach (Article)
Quality (Article)
Re-Defining the Possible - how better design can be done faster than hacking (Article)
Re-thinking ScrumBut and ScrumAnd (Article)
Reading Path (Article)
Reading Paths (Article)
Recommended Resources - Facilitation (Article)
Refactoring to the Open-Closed (Article)
Refactoring to the Open-Closed (Article)
Refine the Product Backlog (Article)
Reflections by Al Shalloway (Article)
Register (Article)
Registered and Free Content Security Zone Access (securitygroup)
Registration Page (Article)
Release and Realization (Article)
Reorganizing the Talent (Article)
Requirements (Article)
Resistance is Not to Change (Article)
Resources for Agile Coaches (Article)
Resources for Disciplined Agile and FLEX Modules (Article)
Resources for FLEX (Article)
Resources for Foundations of Agile (Article)
Resources for Pragmatic Agile (Article)
Right Sized Epics in SAFe (Article)
Roadmaps for Discovery and the Rollout (Article)
Roles Library (Article)
Roles and Responsibilities (Article)
Running Effective Planning Events (Article)
SAFe From a Value Stream Perspective (Article)
SAFe Subscription Success (Article)
SAFe subscription Error (Article)
SAFe: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Article)
SAFe® and FLEX (Article)
SAFe’s redefinition of a value stream obscures the insights they can provide (Article)
STDD online course registration (Article)
Scale: What It Is, Why It Is Important (Article)
Scaled Agile Framework (Article)
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Select an Approach that Adapts to You, Not One You Have to Adapt To (Article)
Select the Value to Realize (Article)
Sequencing the Work To Be Done (Article)
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Shalloway’s Law, Shalloway’s Principle and Shalloway's Corollaries (Article)
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Should I Put Re-organization Plans on Hold? (Blog Entry)
Should We Estimate Our Work? (Article)
Simplicity Factor: Batch Size (Article)
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Simplicity Factor: How Workload Relates To Capacity (Article)
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Skills that Developers Need to Acquire in an Agile Transformation (Blog Entry)
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Start at the Team or Start With the Value Stream? (Article)
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Starting a Transition to Business Agility in Seven Steps (Article)
State Pattern (Article)
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Systems Thinking and How It Can Be Applied to Frameworks and Methods (Article)
Systems Thinking and How It Can Be Applied to Frameworks and Methods (Article)
Systems Thinking and How It Can Be Applied to Frameworks and Methods (Article)
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Tailoring SAFe® to Your Organization (Webinar Sessions) (Article)
Teaching Scrum by concentrating on Agile practices (Article)
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Team Agility Coach Product Demo and Review - Plan (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Alternatives for the Role (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Carry-Over Work (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Daily Stand-ups (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Growing in the Role (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Iteration 0 (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Iteration 0 Facilitation (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Iteration Planning Meeting - Facilitate (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Iteration Retrospective - Facilitate (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Meetings (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Metrics (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Overview of Roles (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Practices (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Product Demo and Review - Facilitate (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Resources for the Role (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Responsibilities (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Scrum of Scrums (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Standard Work (Article)
Team Agility Coach: Visual Controls (Article)
Team Agility Objectives (Article)
Team Agility Templates Available (Article)
Team Estimation (Article)
Team Level (Article)
Team Level (Process) Supportive Inflection Points (Article)
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Team-Agility Coaching Academy Support System (Article)
Technical Debt from a Systems Thinking Point of View (Article)
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Templates for Team Agility (Premium Content) (Article)
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Test-Driven Database Development (Article)
Test-Driven Development: ATDD and UTDD (Article)
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Tester: Estimation (Article)
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Tester: Iteration Planning Meeting (Article)
Tester: Iteration Retrospective (Article)
Tester: Meetings for the Tester (Article)
Tester: Overview of Roles (Article)
Tester: Practices (Article)
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Tester: Standard Work (Article)
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Tester: Writing Tasks (Article)
Testing for Shalloway: (for reuse in other articles) (Article)
Testing for Shalloway: Part A (Article)
Testing for Shalloway: Part B (Article)
Testing for Shalloway: Part C (Article)
Tests are not complete at the end of the sprint (Article)
The Agile Manifesto Explained from FLEX's Perspective (Article)
The Agile at Scale Checklist (Article)
The Assessment Timeline for a Development Group of Less than 125 People (Article)
The Basis for Deciding on First Steps in a Transformation (Article)
The Bridge Pattern (Article)
The Business Case for Agility (Article)
The DA FLEX Mindset (Article)
The DA FLEX Playbook for SAFe (Article)
The DA FLEX Playbook for SAFe (Article)
The Dilemma We're In (Article)
The Disciplined Agile / FLEX Approach for Adoption and Improvement (Article)
The Disciplined Agile FLEX Engagement Pre-Planning Worksheet (Article)
The Disciplined Agile FLEX Patterns (Article)
The Disciplined Agile Self-Study Page (Article)
The Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant (Article)
The Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant Community of Practice (Article)
The Dot Game (Article)
The Effective Enterprise of the Future (Article)
The Essence of FLEX (FLow for Enterprise Transformation) (Article)
The Essence of Lean Thinking (Article)
The FLEX Consortium (Article)
The FLEX Online Book Series (Article)
The FLEX Patterns (Article)
The FLEX Planning and Allocation Patterns (Article)
The FLEX Playbook (Article)
The FLEX Sequencing Patterns Groups (Article)
The FLEX Support System (Article)
The Guardrails - Promises we make with each other to achieve business agility (Article)
The Guardrails During Implementation and Integration (Blog Entry)
The Guardrails During Release and Realization (Article)
The Guardrails During the Planning Event (Article)
The Guardrails For Product Managers and Product Owners (Article)
The Guardrails for Those Working On the Portfolio (Article)
The Idealized Value Stream of the Effective Organization (Article)
The Implications of Systems Thinking and Complex Systems (Article)
The Importance and Myth of “Consistency” (Article)
The Importance of Having an Intake Process (Article)
The Interesting Parallel Between SAFe and the Kanban Method (Article)
The Learning Philosophy of Team Agility (Article)
The Main Differences Between DA FLEX and SAFe (Article)
The Minimum Business Increment (Article)
The Most Important Things to Know About Product Development (Article)
The Need to Improve Clarity of a Requirement (Article)
The Net Objectives Community Webinar Series (Article)
The Net Objectives Guardrails System (Blog Entry)
The Net Objectives Program Board Builder (Article)
The Objective of Time-Boxing (Article)
The Pickup Sticks Model of Teaching a Concept (Article)
The Promises by the Business Architect (Article)
The Purpose of Metrics (Article)
The Purpose of a Tool in Agile (Article)
The Purpose of an Assessment (Article)
The Question Isn’t ”Scrum vs. Kanban?” or Even “Scrum and Kanban?” But Rather “What Works?” (Article)
The Relationship Between Acceptance Test-Driven Development and Design Patterns (Article)
The Relationship Between Visualization and Reorganization (Article)
The Role of Leadership and Management (Article)
The Role of Systems Thinking, Leadership, and Management (Article)
The Role of the Business Analyst in an Agile World (Article)
The Role of the Business Architect (Article)
The Software World Is Not Like the Physical World and What That Means (Article)
The Strategies of Adoption of Current Methods (Article)
The Systems Thinking View of Simple, Complicated, Chaotic, and Complex (Article)
The Theory Underneath DA FLEX (Article)
The Value Stream Impedance Scorecard (VSIS) (Article)
The Value of a Center of Excellence (Article)
The most valuable things I've discovered in 20 years of Agile (Article)
The need to understand the principles that drive your practices (Article)
The value creation structure of the organization (Article)
The value density of the items being worked on (Article)
Tips for Agility (Article)
To What Extent Will Test-First Methods Be Used? (Article)
To What Extent Will We Automate Tests? (Article)
Tools for Lean-Agile (Article)
Topics we mention at conferences and user group talks (Article)
Transformation Library (Article)
Transition Supportive Inflection Points (Article)
Transition Testing (Article)
Trim Tabs (Article)
True North Consortium (Article)
Tuning SAFe® (Webinar Sessions) (Article)
Types of Tests for Code (Article)
Understand your Options (Article)
Understanding Our Inherent Problem (Article)
Understanding Pull in SAFe (Article)
Use Full DevOps (Article)
Use MBIs, MVPs, and MVRs (Article)
Using Consistent Objectives to Enable Self-Organization of Teams Across an Enterprise (Article)
Using FLEX to Perform an Assessment for Mid-Scale Organizations (Article)
Using FLEX to Perform an Assessment for an Organization (Article)
Using Guardrails to Tie Business to Technology (Blog Entry)
Using MBIs in the SAFe Planning Event (Article)
Using SAFe as a Starting Framework (Article)
Using SAFe at Small- to Mid-Scale (Article)
Using SAFe in Smaller Organizations (Article)
Using Visual Controls (Article)
Using Visual Controls and Pull to Disseminate Information. (Article)
Using Visual Controls to See the Flow of Work (Article)
Using the Essence of SAFe at Small to Mid-Scale (Article)
Using the FLEX Mindset and Experience to Determine What Must be Done (Article)
Using the Intake Process to Educate Leadership (Article)
Using the Lean-Agile Portal (Article)
Using the Theory of Flow to Find Your Impediments (Article)
Using the Value Stream to Get to Root Cause With 'Five-Whys' (Article)
VUCA - Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (Article)
Value Stream Assessment for an Organization (Article)
Value Stream Levels Library (Article)
Value Stream Mapping (Article)
Value Streams Main Page (Article)
Vehement Mediocrity (Article)
Visual Controls and Information Radiators (Article)
Waterfall Is Never the Right Approach (Article)
We do Scrum-but: We don’t estimate because it takes too long or management beats us up. (Article)
Webinars and Podcasts (Article)
Webinars and Podcasts by Al Shalloway of the PMI (Article)
Webinars from Net Objectives (Article)
Weighted Shortest Job First (Article)
Weighted Shortest Job First (Article)
Welcome to Premium Content (Article)
Welcome to the Disciplined Agile Value Stream Consultant Portal (Article)
Weyerhaeuser Reading / Viewing Resources (Article)
What Design Method Will Be Used? (Article)
What Does 'Scaling Agile' Mean? (Article)
What Framework / Method / Approach Are We Using? (Article)
What Is Flow? (Article)
What Is It That Can Make SAFe® Heavy? (Blog Entry)
What Is Lean-Agile? (Article)
What Is Required at Scale | Effective Agile at Scale (Blog Entry)
What Is Scrumban? (Article)
What Is the Budgeting Cycle? (Article)
What Is the Ecosystem Structure at the Team Level? (Article)
What Is the Executive Role in Lean and Agile? (Blog Entry)
What Is the Role of Middle Management in Lean and Agile? (Blog Entry)
What Makes an Organization "Mid-sized" (or Above)? (Blog Entry)
What Organizational Concepts Matter the Most to Agile at Scale (Blog Entry)
What Roles Are Missing? Which Roles Need To Be Redefined? (Article)
What SAFe® Provides Us (Article)
What Should Team Process(es) Be: Scrum, Kanban, Leanban? (Article)
What Should the Planning Cycle Be? (Article)
What Test Harness for Acceptance Tests Will Be Used? (Article)
What Traits Are Typical in Successful Agile at Mid-Scale and Above? (Blog Entry)
What Value Does the Middle Manager Add in Mid-Scale Agile? (Blog Entry)
What do You do When What's Best for the Company Is Different From What's Best for the Organization? (Blog Entry)
What is Agile at Scale? The Different Approaches to Achieve It | FLEX from Product Management to the Team (Article)
What to Say When Someone Just Doesn't Get It (Article)
What to do to Overcome Your Challenges (Article)
What's Holding Us Back (Article)
When, Why and How to Estimate (Article)
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Why Agile Coaches Need to Know Both Scrum and Kanban (Article)
Why DA FLEX Suggests Having Explicit Workflow and Agreements (Article)
Why Is SAFe Popular? (Blog Entry)
Why Lean-Agile Should Be More Predictable Than Waterfall (Article)
Why Looking at Delay Is So Important (Article)
Why Looking at Delays in the Value Stream Is So Important (Article)
Why SAFe Being Architected Around Levels Makes It Easy to Start But Difficult to Maintain (Article)
Why Teams Can't Work Anyway They Want To (Article)
Why There Is So Much Bad Agile Out There (Article)
Why WSJF Should Be Done on MBIs and Not Features or Epics (Article)
Why We Need More Than MVPs (Article)
Why We Need an Attitude Adjustment in Agile (Article)
Why You Should Grow Your Own Scrum Masters Instead of Bringing in Outside Scrum Masters (Article)
Why You Should Rethink How You Are Trained in Scrum (Article)
Why the Advanced Scrum Master / Kanban Online Workshop Provides More Value Than the Advanced Scrum Master Course (Article)
Will We Focus on Improving People or Improving the System? (Article)
Work Items Not Properly Prioritized (Article)
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