Helping Nonprofits Create Twice the Impact in Half the Time at a Sustainable Pace
It’s one thing to hear about a nonprofit professional implementing Agile values and concepts or even a specific framework like Scrum in one team setting. It’s quite another to hear about an organization that is using these values and frameworks in an organization with *multiple* teams following the same framework at the same time. That was why we were so excited to have Alastair Jarvis…
Alice Ferris, founder of Goal Busters, started her Agile journey implementing Agile ideas that she found useful in her own personal productivity. She found this approach so helpful she brought the techniques and ideas to the nonprofit sector to support the clients of Goal Busters. Alice and her team have utilized Scrum in her work supporting major gifts and capital campaigns. While she doesn’t…
Shelley Loethen is the founder of Encore Institute for Social Impact and implemented Scrum in the organization 2020. That’s right – at the height of pivoting to remote work and the unknown. While Shelley believes while this wasn’t the most ideal time it was incredibly impactful in her team and the workflow. As they ironed out the flow, the structure, and the internal team…
You’re seeking ideas and inspiration from those who have DONE Agile or Scrum in their own organization? Then you’ll love hearing from one of the speakers of our Agile in Nonprofits Summit, Pam Stewart with Operation Spark. Pam is incorporating Agile in her school systems and helping the aftermath of the New Orleans flooding. Pam started to incorporate the Scrum Framework first with…
Have you ever thought about a Retrospective? Our first speaker at our Agile in Nonprofits Summit was Dr Linet Mera, Co-Founder & Co-Executive Director of the Unconscious Bias Project. Linet has a strong message about the impact Agile and specifically, the Scrum framework has had (and is having) on how a small, and rapidly growing grassroots organization operates. Linet learned about the Scrum framework…