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Agile development: How to plan for complex projects
Agile development is often deemed best for projects having variable scope with prioritized backlog, low number of critical dependencies on other applications, limited or no regulatory requirements, subject matter experts availability, technology, teams level of experience with Agile. When any of these boxes are not ticked, teams often find it challenging and difficult to use Agile development and move over to other traditional development methods like waterfall. My thoughts in this blog are based on experiences and best practices which have... [More]
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Timebox Planning Widget V2.9.1 with new Feature “show dependencies” supports SAFe’s Program Board
SAFe defines the Program Board as follows http://www.scaledagileframework.com/pi-planning/ As a matter of fact, Rational Team Concert (RTC) does not, including IBM's additional SAFe support, provide a similar visualization out-of-the-box . Therefore we have decided to implement a brand new feature named " show dependencies " into the Timebox Planning Widget V2.9.1 This Feature is planned to be available as freeware in coming fall 2016. Feature... [More]
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Did you like TETRIS when you were a kid? Are you ready for SAFe?
Is Scrum and/or SAFe the Framework you want to go for? Are you in Systems Engineering with HW, FW and SW Teams and need to maintain a rolling lookahead plan with lots of dependencies ? Are your Teams distributed all over the world? If you can answer some of the questions with YES I highly recommend you to give the brand new Rational Team Concert Timebox Planning Widget V2.8.7 with SAFe support a chance. It fully supports SAFe on the Levels Value Stream , Program and Team Of course we... [More]
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Speed Up SAFe Program Increment Planning with the New RTC Dependency Board Widget V3
At IBM's InterConnect 2017 (Session HDR-1406) we are going to present and demo the brand new Timebox Planning Widget V3 with SAFe Dependency/Program Board support and integrated Absence Management You are welcome to join us ! New Features coming with Timbox Planning Widget V3 sophisticated dependency management and visualization drag & drop shows the dependencies constantly in the correct color according to your definition in the setup... [More]
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Speed Up your SAFe PI Planning ... have a look at the TEASER
Speed Up SAFe Program Increment Planning with the New IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) Timebox Planning Widget V3.0.4 and YES, you get it for free as a goodie and NO, not everything free is bad ... convince yourself cu in Las Vegas at IBM InterConnect 2017 ... Session HDR-1406 Timebox Planning Widget V3.0.4 TEASER (incl. setup instructions) Globally distributed teams can easily get into the situation where sticky notes, tape and string no longer fit your needs concerning a virtual dependency board. The... [More]
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V3.11.0 Timebox Planning / SAFe Dependency Board RTC Widget with fancy new features
Good news for all Rational Team Concert, Timebox Planning Widget and SAFe enthusiasts ... We have just finished our Siemens internal test cycle and will release the new Timebox Planning / SAFe Dependency Board Widget for RTC with version 3.11.0 very soon. We have implemented several new fancy features. Can't wait? Have a look at the feature demos available on youtube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmNxPniAYOSpFfLBRpmCGraj8nWkMzcD9 You will be able to download the widget for free from our... [More]
Tags:  interconnect agile timebox-planning planning scrum safe4.0 rational-team-concert agile-alm devops scaled-agile-framework safe rtc |