Helping Nonprofits Create Twice the Impact in Half the Time at a Sustainable Pace
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…
We brought our Product Owner, Diane H Leonard, GPC, STSI and our Scrum Trainer Jessica Crowley, STSI together again this week to discuss more Agile and Scrum books and resources to help you as a nonprofit in your Agile journey. (You can view the first video here and read the blog post here if you’d like to also think about reading the 6 books discussed…
According to the results of the 13th annual State of Agile survey, Scrum remains the most widely used Agile framework and reported benefits among Scrum adopters include: Ability to manage changing priorities, Increased project visibility, Business alignment, Improved team morale and productivity, Project cost reduction, and Ability to better manage distributed teams. Scrum is easy to learn but difficult…
As a nonprofit, there are so many resources out there and that could be overwhelming when you are beginning your Agile journey. So we asked our Product Owner Diane H Leonard GPC, STSI and our Trainer Jessica Crowley, STSI, SPC what their favorite Agile books are right now to help you determine what you want to make space for on your own bookshelf. Diane’s…
When nonprofits adopt the Scrum framework, three distinct roles come into play: the Scrum Master, the Development Team, and the Product Owner. Of the three, the Product Owner is widely considered the most challenging — and for good reason. In a nonprofit context, the Product Owner is the person responsible for ensuring that the work your team does is aligned with your mission, responsive to…