Essential Practices

This article explains how to track progress of an Endeavor using the Essence standard and the key concept of Alphas.

Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) and Dr. Stefan Malich | Architectural Change Management are delighted to announce a partnership to describe and enhance architectural practices using the Essence language. The newly essentialized practices will be added to the ever-growing Essence based practice eco-system, giving organizations and teams even more flexibility as they select a way of working that is right-sized for them. The Essence and practice based approach is revolutionizing the way that the industry thinks about and presents development ‘methods’. Essence provides the architectural ‘...

Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) and PEM Systems are delighted to announce a partnership to describe multiple industry-critical problem-solving practices using the Essence Language. The newly Essentialized practices will be added to the ever-growing Essence based practice eco-system, giving organizations and teams even more flexibility as they select a way of working that is right-sized for them. The Essence and practice based approach is revolutionizing the way that the industry thinks about and presents development ‘methods’. Essence provides the architectural ‘glue’ that is helping...

Ivar Jacobson (IJI) and Joakim Sundén are delighted to announce a partnership to describe the Spotify Model to help people better understand what it is, and using Essence as an enabler, evolve the industries understanding of how it can be of value.

Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) and Professional Development Network LLC. are delighted to announce a partnership to describe The Flow System using the Essence Language. The newly Essentialized practices will be added to the ever-growing Essence based practice eco-system, giving organizations and teams even more flexibility as they select a way of working that is right-sized for them. The Essence and practice based approach is revolutionizing the way that the industry thinks about and presents development ‘methods’. Essence provides the architectural ‘glue’ that is helping...

Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) and Ken Pugh Inc. are delighted to announce a partnership to describe the practices of Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) using the Essence of Software Engineering Kernel and Language. The newly Essentialized practices will be added to the ever-growing Essence based practice eco-system, giving organizations and teams even more flexibility as they select a way of working that is right-sized for them. The Essence and practice based approach is revolutionizing the way that the industry thinks about and presents...

Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) and Ambysoft Inc. are delighted to announce a partnership to describe key Ambysoft practices, including Agile Modeling and Agile Data using the Essence of Software Engineering Kernel and Language. The collaboration to “Essentialize” these assets will pave the way for their wider adoption and in particular facilitate their inter-operability with other industry standard practices in an ever growing Essentialized practice eco-system. Essence brings a paradigm shift to the world of software and the potential for its adopters to reap huge benefits in...

Serious gaming to encourage and nurture an agile mindset, beyond just software and product delivery teams, using jargon-light agility cards.

The Activity Spaces are an often-overlooked aspect of Essence. These 15 descriptions of types of common activities that all software development teams will do are often overshadowed by the specific activities from Practices. But as this article shows they have value in their own right and can be a powerful tool to help teams improve.

Scrum and its hybrids are the dominant approaches used by Agile teams today. However, despite Scrum being a seemingly simple framework, many teams struggle to apply Scrum well and fail to achieve the faster delivery of higher value products that are promised. Playing the Practice Spotlight game is a simple way to improve any team's understanding and application of Scrum.