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What Does Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Mean in a Nonprofit Organization?

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Minimum viable product (MVP) examples in nonprofit organizations

Minimum viable product — or MVP — is one of the most powerful and frequently misunderstood concepts from the Agile and Scrum world when applied to nonprofits. Rather than a shortcut or a rush to release unfinished work, MVP in a nonprofit context is about intentional, iterative delivery that keeps your stakeholders at the center of the process. This post explains what MVP really means…

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2020 Scrum Guide

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2020 Scrum Guide

In the Scrum Trainer community, many of us refer to the Scrum Guide as “the rule book” that all Scrum teams need to follow and then the nuances of your organizational cadence, culture, and approach to work within the Scrum framework as “your playbook.”   The point of the rule book is that it remains the same from one team to the next within an…

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We Need Not Wait to See What Others Do

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Scrum in Nonprofits

The story of my Agile journey always starts with the LONG family car trip where my spouse Erich (also a Scrum Trainer through Scrum Inc and coach/trainer with Agile in Nonprofits!) and I first listened to Dr. Sutherland’s book, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time. In the years following the first time we read the book, the trainers and…

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Agile in Nonprofits Interview with JJ Sutherland

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JJ Sutherland

JJ Sutherland, CEO of Scrum Inc. also has years of personal experience using Agile in the nonprofit field. I was thrilled that JJ was willing to share a few pieces of advice specifically with the nonprofit community to help nonprofit professionals and organizations think about how to embrace their Agile mindset and implement the Scrum Framework.    Often, when nonprofits are presented with the Scrum…

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Why Nonprofit Leaders Might Add the Scrum Framework to Their Toolbox

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Many of you may know Marc Pitman as The Fundraising Coach, but that is only part of his work as The Concord Leadership Group. I was thrilled that I had the opportunity to sit down and talk with Marc about leadership in nonprofits including Agile, Scrum, and the Enneagram. There are lots of great nuggets here for nonprofit leaders regardless of whether you are using…

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