By JoJo Salazar

We were sponsors yet again this year at Agile Arizona!

Last Fall I got roped into working on a SAFe whitepaper and webinar. While I had over 10 years experience with Agile, I had never really been exposed to large scale agile frameworks before. I understood some of the[...]

By Bob Wen

In October of 2018, the Department of Defense did a few things unprecedented in the Agile development space.  The Defense Innovation Board released a document for open publication and review providing[...]

By Bob Wen

As teams begin to work in an Agile fashion, dividing up work into smaller batch sizes so that it fits in smaller iterations, many business stakeholders wonder about whether the broader themes that they want[...]

This post is a collaborative effort between Bob Wen and Tracy Walton.

By Bob Wen

I was estactic with the recent announcement that Atlassian had acquired AgileCraft (now Jira Align) for $166 million. As a SAFe Program Consultant and aficionado, I have written about how to use Portfolio for[...]

By Peggy Trammell

Hi to those of you following our Isos Blog!  I am Peggy Trammell, Senior Atlassian Consultant and Functional Lead, a newer member to the Isos team.  I am very excited about joining Isos as I had the[...]

By Bob Wen

We've talked about using Jira to implement the Scaled Agile Framework or SAFe before.  On those occasions, when looking at the framework we've narrowed the focus to the Agile Release Train (ART) and the[...]

For those of you who attended our Stay SAFe with Jira webinar yesterday, I would like to thank you for your participation. If you weren’t able to make it to the webinar, feel free to watch the recording.

By Bob Wen

The PI Planning meeting is a hallmark practice for the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).  In this 2-day meeting, everyone from development teams, architects, business leadership, and stakeholders meet to align[...]