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Agile Hybrid is the new Waterfall

Since the publishing of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development in 2001, the software development world has continued to extol its virtues beyond the realm of software development. This is so much so that over the past 2 cycles in the development of the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Agile techniques and principles are becoming integrated into traditional waterfall project management. It’s easy to see why. At the time the Agile Manifesto was signed, there was a large push back against developing in a vacuum and blindly following a plan that has a known recipe for failure.

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SAFe is not safe

Most everyone in the Agile Project Management space is aware of, if not certified in, the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). A framework so extensive, that it has it’s own company behind it ([www.scaledagile.com]). For the unaware, SAFe is a ‘method’ by which you can ‘scale agile practices’ across the enterprise. It does this by instituting a number of planning cycles called “program increments”, and uses the concept of a “Release Train Engineer” who conducts a “release” through an “Agile Release Train”.

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