HIP Sprints with SAFe and specialized Sprints with Scrum

One of the heatedly discussed aspects of SAFe(Scaled Agile Framework) is the specified HIP sprints. HIP stands for Hardening, Innovation and Planning. In earlier versions of SAFe these were called Hardening Sprints. In Scrum implementations, we usually view the need for a stabilization phase with a fair amount of suspicion – it almost always goes […]

HIP sprints with SAFe and specialized sprints with Scrum

One of the heatedly discussed aspects of SAFe(Scaled Agile Framework) is the specified HIP sprints. HIP here stands for Hardening, Innovation and Planning. In earlier versions of SAFe, this was still called Hardening Sprints. In Scrum implementations, we usually view the need for a stabilization phase with a fair amount of suspicion – after all, […]