In the earlier post, I informed about a new Practical Scaled Agile framework and associated certification – Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA).
Today, I’m pleased to announce the public availability of the CIPSA Guide to Scaling Scrum or Kanban Teams with the MS Project Agile software. You can download the guide for free, read and use it.
Purpose of the CIPSA Guide
Building a large-scale product or service is complex work and involves multiple teams. Worldwide, a large number of scaled agile frameworks are available, but not a single one of them considers taking a practical, hands-on approach using software tools.
Certified in Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA) is the direct certification associated with Practical Scaled Agile (PSA) framework. Hence, going forward, I’ll call it CIPSA (sip-sa) Framework.
A CIPSA professional will have a deeper and much clearer understanding of CIPSA framework as the person would know in and out the Practical Scaled Agile using the software tool of MS Project Agile.
This guide contains the definition of CIPSA framework. Each element of the framework serves a specific part in order to help teams and organizations scale the benefits of two popular Lean-Agile approaches: Scrum and Kanban.
This framework has two objectives:
- Scaling using either Scrum or Kanban at the team level and understanding various scaling aspects.
- Strong emphasis with hands-on demonstration with software tools such as MS Project Agile. In fact, in the annexures you can find a number of real-world snapshots.
A number of Scaled Agile practitioners and authors at ManagementYogi.com contributed to the development of the CIPSA framework. In particular, Satya Narayan Dash would like to thank John P S Oliver, Lakshmi Narayan Dash and others at ManagementYogi for their contributions in the development of this guide.
CIPSA Definition
Certified In Practical Scaled Agile (CIPSA) is a framework, in which a set of Lean-Agile teams with interdependencies operate together to build products or solutions for complex problems using hands-on software tools such as MS Project Agile. In this framework either Scrum or Kanban can be applied at the team level and it can be scaled to multiple teams.
With the CIPSA framework and as a CIPSA professional, one can scale multiple teams to deliver a single large product or service. In it, the Chief Product Owner manages a Single Product Backlog with individual Team Product Owners focused on individual Team Sprint Backlog or Kanban Backlog.
This guide outlines various events, artifacts, commitments and accountabilities of the CIPSA framework. With scaling, multiple teams work on a single Product Backlog to build and deliver an Integrated Increment. The delivery can be within or at the end an Iteration (Sprint) as in Scrum or a cadence-based Release as in Kanban.
The CIPSA Guide
The CIPSA Framework Guide (20 pages) is embedded in this page. It’s free to view, download and read. To view, just scroll using the vertical bar to go through the guide.
Download the CIPSA Framework Guide
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Video: Understanding the CIPSA framework Guide
The below video explains the guide and how to proceed with the guide, along with the contents. It's brief video, less than five minutes.
Final Words
This new Practical Scaled Agile Framework is radically different from others because it’s highly focused on practical applicability, hands-on usage while scaling and in-depth practical demonstration. All these will be part of the upcoming CIPSA Certification Course.
Below are some of the snippets taken from the above CIPSA Guide.
The cross-team refined Product Backlog with MS Project Agile software is shown below.
The multi-team, multi-Sprint view for the entire CIPSA Team is shown below.
The CIPSA Sprint Burndown Chart for the entire CIPSA Team is shown below. Individual team level Burndown Chart can also be drawn and it's informed as part of the CIPSA Guide.
You can check them all the available linked and downloadable document. Go on, it’s free to download and read. A CIPSA professional (CIPSA Certified) will know in and out of Scrum at Scale and Kanban at Scale using the CIPSA Framework and MS Project Agile software.
I welcome your feedback and inputs on the CIPSA Framework. It'll help many other Scaled Agile Practitioners.
References
[1] New Practical Scaled Agile Framework: The CIPSA Framework Guide (FREE Download), By Satya Narayan Dash and ManagementYogi.com
[2] Article: Kanban at Scale Managing Multiple Kanban Teams and Boards with MS Project Agile, By Satya Narayan Dash, first published at MPUG.com
[3] Article: Scrum at Scale: Multiple Teams and Synchronized Scaled Sprints with MS Project Agile, By Satya Narayan Dash, first published at MPUG.com
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