Category: Software Delivery Recipes

  • Deliver a product with an impossible timeline: Can seven apple trees grow an apple for one month?

    Deliver a product with an impossible timeline: Can seven apple trees grow an apple for one month?

    I will share a real problem and how we solved it despite all the opinions and facts that we will fail. You could learn something from the following few paragraphs. What was the problem? We were in a situation to deliver a product with an impossible timeline because of many business-related reasons.  For an easy…

  • How to estimate items too early to be estimated?

    How to estimate items too early to be estimated?

    As a Program Manager, I need to facilitate estimates for items too early to be estimated in almost every company I work with.  Why is needed? Let’s not kid ourselves; estimates are needed in the modern business world, especially when you release your first version of a complex product and hit the right product/market fit…

  • Continuous feedback during the SAFe PI Planning

    Continuous feedback during the SAFe PI Planning

    PI Planning is a high-priced event. You need to book a room, prepare the materials, order food, plan a social event, fly people over, pay for hotel, transportation, and some meals, + even more costs. The total price can go up to tens of thousands of euros and, in some cases, maybe more. If you…

  • Storytelling in SAFe

    Storytelling in SAFe

    Let me start with a bit of theory: There is an Agile framework called SAFe ® that allows enterprises to scale and deliver value faster by optimizing how it flows through different systems and sub-systems, using the principles of Lean-Agile. One of the primary artifacts of that framework is something called a Big Room planning…