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…
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The “Heroic Effort” Trap: Why Saving the Day Is Hurting Your Team
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…
What Does “Happy Team” Even Mean? Measuring What Actually Matters
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,…
More Than the Sum of Our Parts: How Team Working Agreements Boost Nonprofit Impact
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…