What happens after your team finishes a grueling sprint, hits a big deadline, or submits the grant? If the answer is “they just move on to the next thing” — you’re not alone, and…
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The Infrastructure Your Team Is Missing: Helping Habits and Feedback
Most team friction isn’t about the work. It’s about unspoken expectations around how people work together — and nobody ever asked. In our latest episode of Agile Driven Impact, I dug into two skills that…
What If Your Retrospective Spent More Time on What Went Right?
Most teams treat the retrospective as a problem-solving session. You spend a few minutes listing what went well, then pivot quickly to what went wrong — that’s where the “real” improvements come from. Right? …
Keeping Your Agile Ways of Working Inclusive and Mission-Centric
Nonprofit teams successfully use a lot from the Agile Manifesto and specific Agile frameworks like the Scrum framework. Sprints, backlogs, and daily check-ins all transfer well to mission-driven work. But some of the language does…
From Big Goals to Small Wins: Why Sprint Goals Are the Critical Link
Your team has a big mission. Everyone’s working hard. And yet, somehow, it still feels like you’re not winning. That feeling has a name — and a fix. In the latest Pit Stop episode…