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By Chris Maniates

How to Communicate Effectively with Leaders, Ensure Successful Program Outcomes, and Promote Accountability

By Chris Maniates

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By Stephanie Garrido

There is so much Release Train Engineers (RTEs) need to know to be the Servant Leader and Coach of an Agile Release Train (ART) using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®). You go to training; you read the guides; you take the SAFe certification test. But that is just the beginning.

Introduction

Non-development teams are waking up and seeing the benefits of agile that their software development peers have realized since the Agile Manifesto signing in 2001. These agile adopters can be found in organizations’ marketing, accounting, human resources, or recruiting departments. Companies in industries such as education and publishing have also moved to agile. They realize that Agile values apply to their non-development teams too.

This is the second article in a series on Agile for non-technology teams. In the first part in this series we discuss adapting Agile values for non-technology teams.

Agile teams produce benefits, such as faster time to market, customer-focused products, and innovation. The question is often, could non-technology teams also use agile? Agile is a bit different than most ways to work. Unlike operational processes like Waterfall, the focus is not on doing the process better; it’s about better outcomes. Agile values only those activities that enable benefits to be delivered smoothly. Agile practices, activities, tools, and approaches should be

Being a SAFe® Release Train Engineer (RTE) is an exciting challenge to stretch and grow your facilitation, coordination, and leadership skills as you join an Agile Release Train (ART). There is a scarcity of information about this role, so we created this Guide to explore the Lean-Agile environment from the RTE’s perspective.

Over the last several months, our recruiting team has focused on helping individuals in our wider Sila community reenter the workforce. We started in the fall with resume reviews for veterans. In our conversations with multiple veterans, we realized that people who have stepped back from the workforce also need direction. Did you know that a Pew Research Center study found that almost “one-in-four Americans (23%) say there has been a time when they took leave from work to car

At-a-Glance

Agile teams may find it challenging when product development spans both waterfall (traditional) and agile teams. Agile and traditional Waterfall methodologies differ in the most basic ways:

By Jack Murphy

This is article two, in a three-part series diving into the cornerstone activities of task leadership. In the first article, we examined task analysis.

By Alan Sells

Due to Covid-19, many individuals and teams have transitioned to remote work and have no in-person interactions with colleagues. Many were also not prepared for the inherent challenges of virtual work and require extra support. One way to help team members navigate this new reality is to introduce and use Agile games to bring your remote team members together. These games work equally well in person, so use them when your teams can be together again.