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Our Lean-Agile for Systems Engineering (LASE), is an approach to accelerate large complex system development while responding to changing customer needs. Let's understand the need for LASE

If there is no trust and transparency within your Scrum Team, there is no team – just a group of individuals.

Everyone knows that collaboration is important in an organization’s success. Today, let's take a look at the benefits of collaboration in the workplace and the role that Scrum plays in this process. No matter how many team members work together, there always needs to be some extent of communications amongst different departments and individuals within an organization. So, that brings the question: why do we need to raise this level of communication? The simple answer is this: the more people in an organization start interacting with one another, the more efficient and innovative the processes will be, the adaptability will increase, and every individual’s involvement will follow suit.

Agility, Kanban, Scrum -- what does it all mean? These terms can be incredibly disorienting when you find yourself diving into the world of working Agile for the first time in your life. But fortunately, learning about Agile doesn’t have to be difficult or stressful. In fact, when you break these terms down into their simplest form, they prove to be part of a straightforward methodology on the most productive manner of working in a collaborative environment: Agile.

In my previous two blogs I explained the challenges to and solutions for scaling Agile. In this blog I’ll discuss the best-known Agile scale-up model: the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).SAFe, the acronym for Scaled Agile Framework, is probably the most widely encompassing framework of all the Agile frameworks. SAFe was published in 2011 by management consultant and software developer Dean Leffingwell, and is promoted worldwide by publisher Scaled Agile.

Agile transformation is an organizational transformation that affects all the people in a company: leaders, managers and employees. It is a bottom-up and top-down transformation that requires a strong focus on the overall mindset of an organization and one of the critical aspects: the elimination of fear-based norms.

As a business owner or an employee, you’ve probably heard about Agile. But have you managed to gain an in-depth understanding of Agile, really discovering what it is and why more and more people are coming to the conclusion that Agile is an effective methodology that helps bring about an organization’s success? If you are new to the world of Agile, then you’re in luck. Today, we are going to familiarize you with Agile and its advantages, so that you can consider applying it in your workplace to manage your teams and projects effectively.

The modern world is teeming with competition. It takes a lot to differentiate yourself from the crowd, whether you’re looking to excel at the personal or the business level. Everybody wants to make it to the top, but not everyone has what it takes to get there. And at Gladwell Academy, we understand that like no one else. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to offer you the tools you need to help you go further and learn the lifelong lessons that will prove integral in paving your path to success. But we don’t want you to just take our word for it when we say that we’re the best in the game in helping you and your business grow; we want you to see it for yourself. That’s why today, we’ll be introducing you to the 5 reasons why Gladwell Academy is your number one choice for Scrum, Agile, and SAFe trainings, with trainers who will stay by your side throughout the entire process in order to drive you and your business to the top.

Organizations are in the midst of profound transformation due to Digital disruption. Whether the teams are reactive or proactive, optimistic or pessimistic, they view the continuous change brought about by Digital Transformation as Continuous Disruption or Continuous Next.

here is currently a big demand for Agile Coaches. But what is the difference between an Agile Coach or Scrum Master? People often ask us what such a coach can add to a modern, self-managing organization. Aren’t the teams already coached by the Scrum Master? Yes they are! There are many similarities between the two roles. Both the Scrum Master and Agile Coach help organizations to develop an Agile mindset. They both use similar techniques to support and facilitate teams in this respect. The difference between them lies in their scope.

In my previous two blogs I explained the challenges to and solutions for scaling Agile. In this blog I’ll discuss the best-known Agile scale-up model: the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).SAFe, the acronym for Scaled Agile Framework, is probably the most widely encompassing framework of all the Agile frameworks. SAFe was published in 2011 by management consultant and software developer Dean Leffingwell, and is promoted worldwide by publisher Scaled Agile.

The SAFe Program Consultant (SPC) takes the lead in implementing SAFe according to the SAFe principles and is responsible for setting up the new organisation.