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Essence
Essence is a standard for the creation, use and improvement of software engineering practices and methods, which is maintained and published by the OMG international open standards consortium.
The spirit of Essence is to concentrate on the essential information and to optimize both the technical and human aspects of engineering by providing super-lightweight practices, often distilled into a small handful of cards, that focus on outcomes and minimize production of documentation.
Visit our new landing page and find out Why Essence
The Essence language
The Essence kernel
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Better Scrum with Essence – Jeff Sutherland praises Essence
Jeff: ”Essence is key to success”.
Better Scrum with Essence
Dr. Ivar Jacobson responds to the questions ‘Why Essence’ and ‘What is Essence’ but focus on ‘How does Essence make Scrum better’.
Scrum Essentials Cards – a paper published in ACM Queue
The cards and a number of serious games to play with the cards should convince you – without changing the intentions of Scrum, Essence makes it significantly better.
Learn more about Essence
Essence has a profound impact on many different personas concerned with software development. If you like to learn more about Essence we put together a selection of the most interesting and up to date material.
Meetup with Dr Jeff Sutherland, and Ian Spence.
A fireside chat with Jeff Sutherland and Ivar Jacobson, facilitated by Nabil Zawadi.