ICON Agility Blog

Insights on Agile transformation, SAFe, DevSecOps, and Business Agility from ICON Agility Services coaches and practitioners.

5 Little Changes that Make a Big Difference in your SAFe® Transformation
Aug 19, 2024

5 Little Changes that Make a Big Difference in your SAFe® Transformation

Jun 3, 2019 A colleague suggested I write this article, and I quickly agreed, thinking to myself, “No sweat! There are so many little things that...

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2021 SAFe® Summit Presentation – Epic Owners: The Key to Strategic Unification
Aug 19, 2024

2021 SAFe® Summit Presentation – Epic Owners: The Key to Strategic Unification

Mar 24, 2022 Epic Owners are generally thought of as the shepherds of Portfolio Kanban Epics but that is only the tip of the iceberg. As Epics are so...

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6 Must-Haves for Maximizing Virtual Dojo Engagement
Aug 19, 2024

6 Must-Haves for Maximizing Virtual Dojo Engagement

6 Must-Haves for Maximizing Virtual Dojo Engagement Mar 26, 2021 This article assumes you have a basic knowledge of the immersive learning Dojo conc...

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2019 SAFe® Summit Lightning Talk: Coming Down from the Ivory Tower- Agile Architecture with SAFe
Aug 19, 2024

2019 SAFe® Summit Lightning Talk: Coming Down from the Ivory Tower- Agile Architecture with SAFe

Nov 18, 2019 As the Lead Transformation Coach at Aegon Asset Management, Charlene Cuenca presented her story of how AAM began implementing SAFe Agile...

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Interview with a Coach: Virtual SAFe® PI Planning
Aug 19, 2024

Interview with a Coach: Virtual SAFe® PI Planning

Apr 14, 2020 COVID-19 has been an unwelcome catalyst into fully remote teams, but making optimal use of technology to keep in lockstep w...

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4 Reasons to Choose Lean Budgeting over Project Cost Accounting
Aug 19, 2024

4 Reasons to Choose Lean Budgeting over Project Cost Accounting

Feb 1, 2021 Are you stuck in traditional budgeting approaches and looking for an alternative? If you feel like you’re wasting your e...

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2019 SAFe® Summit Presentation: Hardware Agility with SAFe’s Core Values
Aug 19, 2024

2019 SAFe® Summit Presentation: Hardware Agility with SAFe’s Core Values

Nov 18, 2019 It is often stated that while agility works for software, it is not as easily applied to hardware. In this presentation, you will le...

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From RTE to Flow Master
Aug 19, 2024

From RTE to Flow Master

Presented by Charlene M. Cuenca The ART Kanban is a powerful tool which visualizes flow, but are we gaining the most value out of it? RTEs play a ke...

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My Stakeholder Has Shiny Object Syndrome! Now What?
Aug 19, 2024

My Stakeholder Has Shiny Object Syndrome! Now What?

March 15, 2021 We see it more often than we’d like. The program or team is humming along, when a key stakeholder walks in with a New, Sh...

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Free ICON Maturity Assessment Tool for your SAFe® Transformation
Apr 15, 2019

Free ICON Maturity Assessment Tool for your SAFe® Transformation

Let’s consider a common request from Agile Transformation teams and PMO offices: Have you assessed the Agile maturity of your teams? This seems like a...

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