Helping Nonprofits Create Twice the Impact in Half the Time at a Sustainable Pace
If your nonprofit team is using the Scrum framework — or exploring it — one of the most impactful events you can invest in is the Sprint Retrospective. It’s the structured moment at the end of each Sprint where your team pauses, reflects, and commits to one meaningful improvement before moving forward. Done well, the retro is one of the most powerful tools a nonprofit…
How do you check-in with your team? With so many of our meetings now as virtual meetings whether via Zoom or other tool, we are seeing a wide range of check-in methods. This particular check-in approach from Live In Greatness was a simple yet effective approach that we thought your team may appreciate. We like that it allows everyone to share their current state of…
We are so excited for our free Book Club video chat on April 22nd when we are discussing The Scrum Field Book: Faster performance. Better results. Starting now. By J.J. Sutherland We still have a few seats left for this free video chat (you can register here) and can download the book via Audible or order the book via Amazon here. We wanted to share…
Having a Scrum Master in a nonprofit organization offers four key advantages that can transform how your team operates — from reducing burnout to saving time and resources. If you’ve been wondering why your nonprofit should adopt the Scrum framework, or specifically what value a Scrum Master brings, this post is for you. I have been answering numerous questions recently about the benefits for…
Originally posted by GPA on September 20th, 2019. Read the original blog here. I was excited to read Jillain Veil Ehnert’s article How to Herd Cats: Compression Planning ® 101 last month. Compression Planning ® is an Agile framework, and as many of you have learned about me, if there is one thing I love talking about as much as grants (my family and the 1000 Islands…