If your team regularly scrambles to finish before a deadline—late nights, skipped lunches, one person doing the work of three—you might call that pattern dedication. I’d call it a warning sign. In this Pit…
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What Does “Happy Team” Even Mean? Measuring What Actually Matters
What if the most powerful predictor of your team’s next Sprint had nothing to do with their task list? In our latest episode of Agile Driven Impact, I sat down with Bethany M. Planton,…
More Than the Sum of Our Parts: How Team Working Agreements Boost Nonprofit Impact
We often define high-performing teams as a collection of talented individuals. However, just like I talked about in the Agile Driven Impact podcast episode, “Team Working Agreements: Greater Than the Sum of the Parts,” for…
How Scrum Saved My Lake Placid Half Marathon
In mid-February, my running goals crashed. A severe ankle sprain left me with a strict doctor’s order: zero weight-bearing activity for two weeks. With the Lake Placid Half Marathon looming on June 12th, panic set…
Connecting Big Picture Thinking with Daily Action: Systems Thinking vs. Scrum
When leaders in the social impact sector first discover Agile, they often look at the ecosystem of modern management models and ask, “How does what we’re already doing fit into this?” This moment is…