Helping Nonprofits Create Twice the Impact in Half the Time at a Sustainable Pace
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? Not so fast, says Rob Hatch. In this latest episode of Agile Driven Impact, co-hosts Diane and Erich sit down with Rob, an executive coach and author of Attention!,…
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 not transfer well at all. Traditional project management often leans on aggressive or militaristic jargon. Terms like “pull the trigger” or “target audience” made sense in a sales-driven corporate…
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 of Agile Driven Impact, Erich and I dug into one of the most underused tools in an Agile team’s toolkit: the Sprint Goal. Big goals — the kind that…
Nonprofit teams often feel overwhelmed by endless to-do lists and limited hours. When groups adopt Agile frameworks to manage collaborations, grant applications, or the implementation of programs and services, they frequently look for structure, especially if implementing the Scrum framework as a way to make Agile values a part of their daily way of working. However, strict frameworks can sometimes feel like a rigid lecture…
Building an Agile nonprofit does not start with a Sprint board. It starts with a mindset shift, and books are among the fastest ways to build it. Our team curated the Agile in Nonprofits bookshelf from titles we return to again and again in our own training, coaching, and grant writing work. Below, we break down what each book covers and how it supports…