Helping Nonprofits Create Twice the Impact in Half the Time at a Sustainable Pace
In a recent Scrum Basics session, we received the question, “How does something fit into the Sprint? Do you make the Sprint fit the work, or the work fit in the Sprint?” It’s a bit of a tongue twister, but it’s a question we have heard some version of now in multiple classes. The answer is straightforward: you make the work fit into the…
“You can’t do what is next now.” – Ally Love So much of my morning journaling time is spent processing and thinking through quotes that I encounter in my daily travels, whether it be reading, meetings, or my favorite…my daily workouts. Ally Love, a Peloton instructor, said this line during a 30-minute Tabata class the other day, which was 40 sprint intervals broken…
Back in 2001, without knowing it, I took the first steps on my Agile journey. The steps were not taken in my Organizational Behavioral class at Cornell University as you might assume (although I do wish I had kept that textbook–it would be fascinating to read and reflect on now!), but rather in the Formula SAE lab in Cornell’s Upson Hall. Let’s take a quick…
In our family, from the time they started school, we have always told our daughters that we don’t care about their grades; what we care about is that they focus on lessons learned and put in their best effort. It sounds cliche, but my husband and I both meant it. However, as is often the case in traditional public schooling, the emphasis on grading and…
Our team at Agile in Nonprofits is likely to get into a deep discussion (and maybe even debate) about the use of the word priority versus priorities. The thing most likely to start the debate? If someone says that “all our priorities are equally important.” Thankfully, we have a wonderful copy editor and Lead Writer as part of our larger DH Leonard Consulting team that loves…