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About Anthony Crain

Anthony Crain

Delivery Manager, Agile Transformation

Cprime

14 articles

Anthony has lead organizational change since 1999 for IBM and since 2015 for Blue Agility, now Cprime. He has introduced thousands of people to agile, portfolio management, requirements, architecture, and other engineering topics at over fifteen conferences, including IBM Interconnect, COHAA “The Path to Agile”, IBM Interconnect, Rational European Tech Con, IBM Share, IEEE and in private and public training venues, including as a keynote speaker at a financial company’s engineering week.

The GOST framework enhances the use of SAFe, ensuring that your IT portfolio can align with your enterprise strategy.

How to use GOST + SAFe to increase your company's agility

Focus agile practices on business value

Work with epics, features, and stories to reclassify them into product value items—and leave those old project definitions behind.

Projects to products: How to ensure your agile team delivers real value

Change your mindset

These three steps may sound straightforward, but in practice they can be trickier than you think. Here are some tips for how to get going with P2P.

Agile strategy: How to go from projects to products in 3 steps

Map your journey

Ditch the traditional project-based approach to DevOps and adopt a product-centered methodology instead. Your digital transformation depends on it.

Projects to products: What it means, why it matters

Move your digital transformation forward

Here's a real-world example of how how value streams, products, MVPs and epics really work in SAFe.

Confused about SAFe epics? Follow this real-world example

An Epic Burger adventure

With IDEEM, you can measure any agile (or other) experiment in a clean, clear, concise, and consistent way. Here's how.

Boost your agile experiments: How IDEEM articulates benefit

A new model for quantification

To successfully implement lean techniques, it's much better for your long-term success to model Socrates than an army general.

Agile leaders, time to loosen your grip

Think Socrates vs. military

Don't be fooled into thinking that every team needs to practice agile in exactly the same way. Here's why that's a fallacy, and how you can fight it.

Why agile leaders should stop demanding consistency from teams

Uniformity is the enemy of great

You can't fix what you can't see. Here's why your agile team—and IT leadership—must learn to embrace failure.

Why real agile leaders embrace failure

No fear

Four metrics to measure just about anything? Here's what they are, how they work—and tips for how to get started.

How software teams can measure anything: The QPPE metrics model

A metrics throwdown

Fast car

With fast estimation your agile teams can estimate at a much faster clip, without losing accuracy.

Fast estimation: A better approach to agile estimation

Up to speed

Calendar with glasses and marker

The two-week sprint is almost ubiquitous in agile. Why? Anthony Crain explains why myopic adherence to this iteration length is hurting teams.

The seduction of the two-week sprint

Move beyond mandate

Adopting Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) can be tricky, but some parts are trickier than others. Here are top challenges and how to address them.

4 biggest challenges in moving to Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)

Sometimes, it's hard to be SAFe

Thinking about SAFe, but too confused to start? Learn about the special terms and concepts used in SAFe, and get tips on how to best begin...

Cracking the SAFe: An expert's take on the Scaled Agile Framework

Several combinations

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