Helping Nonprofits Create Twice the Impact in Half the Time at a Sustainable Pace
If your team’s product backlog is basically a running list of tasks, you’re leaving one of Scrum’s most powerful tools on the table. That’s the message from JJ Sutherland, CEO of Scrum Inc. and co-author of Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time, in the most recent episode (episode 16) of Agile Driven Impact. JJ joined hosts Diane and…
Nonprofit professionals, unfortunately, understand all too well the constant pressure to achieve more with less. Shifting funding priorities, intense deadlines, and multiplying community needs can easily lead to overwhelming stress. Are you wondering how your team can break away from constant fire drills and focus on what truly matters? The answer lies in the Scrum framework. To see these concepts explained in detail,…
If your team regularly scrambles to finish before a deadline—late nights, skipped lunches, one person doing the work of three—you might call that pattern dedication. I’d call it a warning sign. In this Pit Stop episode of, How to Avoid Relying on Heroic Efforts to Achieve Your Goals, Erich and I dig into what Agile practitioners call the “heroic effort”—and why minimizing it is…
What if the most powerful predictor of your team’s next Sprint had nothing to do with their task list? In our latest episode of Agile Driven Impact, I sat down with Bethany M. Planton, GPC, RSM, RPO—founder of bmpconsulting and co-founder of the #HealthyGrantPro initiative—to talk about two things most nonprofit leaders don’t measure: team happiness and stress. Bethany’s research is hard to…
We often define high-performing teams as a collection of talented individuals. However, just like I talked about in the Agile Driven Impact podcast episode, “Team Working Agreements: Greater Than the Sum of the Parts,” for a high-performance race car, great parts alone do not guarantee a win—how those parts work together is what counts. For nonprofits striving to Create Twice the Impact in Half the…