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Agile in Nonprofits Interview with Solomon Belette

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Solomon Belette is the Director of the Sanford Institute of Philanthropy JFK University and the author of an article, “Agility of the Nonprofit Enterprise in this Period of Pandemic”. Diane and Jessica from the Agile in Nonprofits team had the opportunity to interview Solomon and find out what inspired him to write this article and understand how COVID-19 has impacted nonprofits in his region.   …

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How NewBoCo Founded and Grew a Nonprofit Using the Scrum Framework: A Real-World Success Story

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What would it look like if a nonprofit embraced Agile principles from day one — not as a transformation layered onto an existing organization, but as the founding DNA of how the organization was built?   Our vision at Agile in Nonprofits is to support nonprofit organizations in their Agile transformation so that they can achieve greater impact in their communities faster than ever before….

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Using Sprints in Nonprofits

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Running is actually one of the points of common interest that Jessica and I first learned about each other when we met. I’ve been a casual runner since middle school, although I’ll admit, I’ve always preferred long distance and cross country trails over sprinting and short-distance track events. Yet, now, when Jessica and I sit down to talk about sprints, we aren’t usually talking about…

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14th Annual State of Agile Report Takeaways

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The long-awaited release of the 14th Annual State of Agile report is finally here! Over 40,000 Agile executives, practitioners, and consultants participated in the survey. Here are the top 10 takeaways that we identified:     Scrum remains the most popular Agile framework.       Scrum is an easy to implement framework that is structured around three roles (Product Owner, Scrum Master, and Scrum…

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Why Nonprofits Should Use Story Points and Relative Sizing

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There are many reasons why Scrum teams use story points to estimate user stories. In the 1940s, the Rand Corporation conducted a study that measured the effectiveness of estimation techniques. The conclusion was that humans are poor estimators of the amount of time it will take them to accomplish planned work. This is due to several factors including optimism bias and the planning fallacy which…

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