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SAFe as a consequence of Scrum

Post author By Ulla Sebestyén
Post date 2020/01/14
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Over the years we have worked with several software companies that use Scrum alongside Pulse. Recently SAFe has also appeared in some discussions with potential customers as an alternative to Pulse. I can now see the same problems in all these Scrum-companies. These are problems we have never encountered with Pulse. It has made me dig deeper and compile my own conclusions and opinions. What is happening in the companies that use Scrum and why has SAFe appeared on the scene?

“You are not supposed to feel safe in product development. It’s your job as engineers to deal with uncertainty and risks involved.”

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How to make a Cybertruck

Few can have missed that Tesla announced its upcoming Pickup truck back in November 2019. The truck shocked the world with its “cyber” design. The look is not a choice just to polarize the world. It is a result of how they chose to design the car.

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Product view on focus areas in R&D

Post author By Ulla Sebestyén
Post date 2019/12/03
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Technology companies generally have an R&D department where people work with development. It’s taken for granted, just like having a finance department. But have you, as a manager, really thought about what you want to achieve with the R&D resources? It may seem like a silly question; Of course you know what the R&D department does and why. Or do you?

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Chalmers Formula Student

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What a productive day! We would like to thanks Ulla Sebastyen from Parmatur HB for giving us training and workshop on "Agile Project with Pulse". . . . You can find more information on Agile Governance and Pulse here: www.parmatur.com

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Pulse Room in Your Hand

In the 1990s, Toyota and Scania developed the Pulse-room concept, or Obeya as it is called in Japan. The pulse room is a solution to the problem with weak management control when organising work as projects. This problem was highlighted by several research programs during the 1980s. The effect of an Obeya was immediate for Toyota; in some few years they were able to develop the hybrid car Prius, and new brands as Lexus and Scion. It took their competitors decades to catch up.

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Project portfolio health check – how do the projects perform and how are the resources utilized?

Post author By Ulla Sebestyén
Post date 2019/11/04
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It is often hard for a management team to get an up to date overview of the company’s projects. The projects tend to slip through the grip because the checkpoints are few and far between, the projects generate largely “invisible” results, and resources go in and out of projects over time.

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Pulse when development is distributed on many locations

Post author By Jan-Erik Sebestyén
Post date 2019/10/15
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Pulse in a company with one R&D location will have one pulse room. But what to do when there are many locations around the world where development is done? Unlike a hierarchical line organization, Pulse is an organizational model that can easily handle “multi-site” situations.

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Agile Pulse App is now live

Post author By Jan-Erik Sebestyén
Post date 2019/10/02
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The Agile Pulse App promotes behaviours that shorten development time and maximize throughput.

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Agile Governance of Strategy & Development

Post author By Ulla Sebestyén
Post date 2019/09/27
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For a business to be agile, it isn’t enough to have agile projects. You also need agile governance that can speed up decision making, deal with overload, queues and deviations, and enable you to work continuously on your strategies.

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Product development as an adaptive walk

Post author By Ulla Sebestyén
Post date 2019/09/20
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Product development as an adaptive walk is a new way to manage uncertainty. Predictions far into the future are highly uncertain. Pulse support short lead time.