Our opportunity to talk with Beth Tuttle, former President and CEO of DataArts (now known as SMU DataArts) was an interesting intersection of our work with our grant writing clients at DH Leonard Consulting and our Agile capacity building activities through Agile in Nonprofits. We have had numerous clients that are arts organizations over the years, and as could then be expected, numerous clients that…
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Agile in Nonprofits Interview with Solomon Belette
Written by: Diane Leonard, GPC, ST and Jessica Crowley, SPC, LSTSolomon 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. …
How NewBoCo Founded and Grew a Nonprofit Using the Scrum Framework: A Real-World Success Story
Written by: Diane Leonard, GPC, ST and Jessica Crowley, SPC, LSTWhat 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….
Using Sprints in Nonprofits
Written by: Diane Leonard, GPC, ST and Jessica Crowley, SPC, LSTRunning 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…
14th Annual State of Agile Report Takeaways
Written by: Jessica Crowley, ST, SPCThe 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…