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Lean Stack – Lean Startup Continuous Innovation Framework

Better entrepreneurs. Better world. LEANSTACK helps startup accelerators, university incubators, and venture studios build the next generation of entrepreneurs using battle-tested playbooks.

Donald Reinertsen

Reinertsen & Associates has provided services on product development management for over 39 years. On April 5, 2016 we will begin an experiment offering an opt-in Email mailing list. We plan to send occasional Emails to notify you about new events or important content.

The ART of SAFe

Applying Lean and Agile techniques at scale to bring about effective, sustainable improvement in Culture, Execution and Business Results.

How Vendors Can Apply Customer Centricity

In this post, we look at how a B2B vendor should organize around value when building products that are used to support its customer’s business operations. A common example might be a vendor building a CRM system.

Connecting OKRs, KPIs, OVSs, and DVSs

The title of my post may read like acronym soup but all of these concepts play a critical role in SAFe, and understanding how they’re connected is important for successful SAFe implementation.

SAFe® Program Dependency Board Retrospective

The SAFe program board, or program dependency board, is a key artifact used in PI Planning and execution. The Agile Release Train (ART) teams and stakeholders used it to align, anticipate risks, and adapt the plan accordingly.

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Scrum Guide Companion for Leaders

If you are leading Scrum Teams or generally are a leader in an organization that’s leveraging Scrum, the Scrum Guide Companion for Leaders is for you.

Kanban Guide for Scrum Teams

There are many benefits to optimizing the flow of work in Scrum by leveraging Kanban practices and this guide is designed to enhance and expand the practices of Scrum and assumes the reader is operating a process using the Scrum framework.

Invitation-based SAFe Implementation

Implementing any kind of organizational change, such as adopting SAFe, is hard and raises several key concerns:

OKRs and Agile Sitting on a Tree

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