Pretty Agile blog posts about Continuous Improvement

SAFe from the Trenches @ Agile Australia

Em Campbell-Pretty - August 31, 2017

In June, Pretty Agile partnered with Scaled Agile Inc. to sponsor the 9th Agile Australia conference. Included in this sponsorship arrangement was an opportunity to deliver a product demonstration to conference attendees. Given Scaled Agile Inc. Read more...

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SAFe Applied

Tags: Agile Australia, Agile Release Train, Agile Transformation, ART Launch, Continuous Improvement, Culture, DevOps, QuickStart, SAFe, SAFe in Government, Scaled Agile Framework, Self Selection

12 Lean Habits of the 21st-Century Technology Leader

Em Campbell-Pretty - April 21, 2017

Lean is the term the Western world has come to use for the Toyota Production System (TPS).1 Created by Taiichi Ohno, TPS aims to reduce the time between a customer order and payment for the delivery of a vehicle by “reducing the non-value Read more...

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Cutter Articles

Tags: Continuous Improvement, Leadership, Leading Change, Lean, Learning, Middle Management, One Team Culture, Respect for People, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Visualisation

Context Matters in SAFe

Em Campbell-Pretty - November 05, 2014

At Agile Australia this year I took some time out to talk with Craig Smith, Tony Ponton and Renee Troughton from The Agile Revolution about the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Impact Mapping. You can read a summary of the discussion and Read more...

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Interviews

Tags: Agile Release Train, Agile Transformation, Book Club, Continuous Improvement, EDW Release Train, Impact Mapping, Inspect & Adapt, Leadership, Lean, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile

Being an Agile Team of Agile Leaders

Em Campbell-Pretty - April 02, 2014

When introducing agile, it is easy for management to expect their teams to change while not truly understanding what this change means on a day-to-day practical level. Leaders run the risk of confusing their understanding of the theory with a Read more...

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SAFe Roles

Tags: Agile Leadership, Continuous Improvement, EDW Release Train, Flow, Leadership, Learning, Mindset

Scaling Agile Data Warehousing

Em Campbell-Pretty - February 08, 2014

Two years ago, I found myself with five Agile feature teams developing in parallel on an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) with a single integrated code base. While the introduction of Agile was showing promise, we would need to find a way to make Read more...

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Cutter Articles

Tags: Agile, Agile Data Warehousing, Agile Release Train, Communication, Continuous Improvement, EDW Release Train, Leadership, Leading Change, NPS, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Agile, Scrum, Visualisation

Book Clubs at Work - Are You Serious?

Em Campbell-Pretty - October 13, 2013

As mentioned in a prior post, the idea for the EDW Agile Release Train came from reading Dean Leffingwell's Scaling Software Agility. A couple of months after reading the book, there was a restructure and I found myself leading the technology Read more...

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Tribal Unity

Tags: Book Club, Communication, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Leaning Culture, Culture, EDW Release Train, Leadership, SAFe, Scaled Agile Framework, Scaling Culture, Team Building, Tribal Unity

The "Bubble Up" Approach to Scaling Retrospectives

Em Campbell-Pretty - June 25, 2013

One of the many initiatives I am really passionate about within our EDW Release Train is the commitment of my extended leadership team to continuous improvement. However, we have had some challenges identifying the right targets to improve! Read more...

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Tribal Unity