Helping Nonprofits Create Twice the Impact in Half the Time at a Sustainable Pace
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…
Our Writing Team at DH Leonard Consulting (the parent company to Agile in Nonprofits) recently brought on two new employees. It was an exciting time for our team, but also one that brought up a lot of questions about how to help make the new team members feel welcome, contribute to our work in a valuable way as early as possible, and as both were…
A Scrum team, per the Scrum Guide, includes three roles (called accountabilities), the Product Owner, the Scrum Master, and the Developer (we usually say Team Member around here so there is no confusion in nonprofits about Development as a fundraising function in the organization). You will usually hear that the “ideal” number of people on a Scrum Team is 3 to 9 individuals. As a…
One of the most common concerns of those who attend trainings with Agile in Nonprofits is about having a chance to practice their Agile values and framework skills like Scrum or Kanban before they put them into place in their team or organization. The reality is that the opportunity to practice living these values, embodying the principles, and even following a framework are all…
In our last Office Hours, an attendee brought up the struggles of the team understanding how to slice stories into pieces of work small enough so that it fits into a Sprint. We like to always refer back to the INVEST criteria when looking at each product backlog item and whether or not it meets a Definition of Ready (DoR). One of the things…