by duane bush | Oct 27, 2025 | Social Media
The Agile Release Train: A Symphony of Priorities The ART (Agile Release Train) isn’t a dictatorship. It’s not about who yells the loudest in PI Planning. It’s a carefully synchronized engine of value delivery—powered by collaboration and calibrated by customer needs,...
by duane bush | Oct 22, 2025 | Social Media
Why Stability Is the New Velocity in SAFe In the rush to launch the next Agile Release Train or pivot to a new product strategy, too many organizations forget a foundational principle: great Agile teams are built over time, not assembled overnight. Long-lived Agile...
by duane bush | Oct 20, 2025 | Social Media
What is Gemba and Why It Matters in Agile Gemba is a Japanese term meaning “the real place”—the actual location where value is created. In Agile and Lean organizations, this means stepping away from the conference room and going directly to the teams,...
by duane bush | Oct 19, 2025 | Social Media
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are more than just numbers—they are the vital signs of an enterprise’s Agile health. KPIs reflect whether the enterprise is delivering on its promises and progressing toward meaningful, measurable outcomes. In the Scaled Agile...
by duane bush | Oct 13, 2025 | Social Media
Some of the most widely used Agile practices aren’t even in the Scrum Guide. And yet, they work. In every Agile coaching engagement, we encounter a familiar paradox: practitioners rigidly defending what’s not explicitly written in the Scrum Guide—only to find that...
by duane bush | Oct 8, 2025 | Social Media
Understanding Architectural Runway in SAFe It’s hard to deliver the future if your architecture is stuck in the past. In SAFe, the Architectural Runway refers to the existing technical foundation—code, components, infrastructure—that supports the implementation...
