Recently, Scaled Agile released SAFe® 6.0 which offers the newest and most effective Lean-Agile practices, enabling forward-thinking enterprises to navigate today’s rapidly changing challenges and opportunities. SAFe 6.0 is a comprehensive update from version 5.1 and includes many new and advanced practices alongside a new Big Picture and terminology updates. I am very pleased to […]

In today’s ‘new normal’, organizations are being forced to innovate their engineering processes — how they operate and deliver. Organizations understand that this transformation requires a truly agile enterprise that efficiently and effectively adopts Agile@Scale. By now most organizations that have tried to scale agile across the enterprise know that having agile development teams or […]

In this post, I will use the new names of IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) 7.0, previously known as the IBM Continuous Engineering solution. You can read more about the renaming activity in the blog post: Renaming the IBM Continuous Engineering Portfolio. In the details below, you will see the new names along with old […]

We’ve made a lot of progress on some key themes such as usability, enterprise agile, and support for complex regulated development at scale in the v7.0 EWM release.  I’ll cover some of the high level enhancements related to those themes. UX Modernization in EWM UX modernization is all about user experience redesign and usability improvements. […]

The benefits of “lean” are taking shape. More organizations than ever before have shifted from simply pursuing an interest to actually doing something about it. And in this world of growing systems and software complexity, the need to effectively and efficiently coordinate the delivery of value across distributed teams is no longer a choice… it’s […]

We’ve been busy making IBM Rational Team Concert (RTC) even better for teams who are doing complex, regulated development.  We’ve focused on the following main areas in this release: Usability: Making the simple things easier to do My favorite feature in this release is a one-click Create Child Work Item option in the work item editor.  […]

Reporting is critical in helping organizations lead lean enterprise transformations, and we’re listening and responding… In the latest drop of the Enterprise Scaled Agile reports for your IBM Continuous Engineering (CE) and IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) environments, we’ve included some of the most important industry-standard reports — like Cumulative Flow, Burn-Up and Burn-Down […]

Version 6.0.6 of the IBM Continuous Engineering (CE) and Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) solutions is now available! This release continues to help teams engineer, deliver, and maintain the smart and connected products and systems that contribute to an industrial Internet of Things (IoT) and that drive innovation and productivity in our societies. Similar to previous […]

In my job, I spend a lot of time thinking about very complex things. Like the definition of IoT. Or the challenges of connected product engineering. Or how industries are becoming increasingly regulated.  Because in my IoT world, “continuous engineering” means working with increasingly connected things in very complex systems, and developing the software that […]

Organizations across all industries are under great pressure to quickly adapt to new market conditions. They need to transform their approach to systems engineering and software development to deliver new features and offerings faster and respond to feedback — continuously. Most of them have been experimenting with lean and agile principles to reach that goal. […]