Have you considered implementing an Agile approach in your organization, perhaps even the Scrum framework? Yes, this approach is commonly used in software development; however, it can absolutely be adapted for nonprofit organizations and used…
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Agile Tools: Nonprofit Discounts
Agile tools are some of my favorite things to continue to learn about. While tools don’t make you Agile they do help your team keep all your work visible. It may not always be…
Pivoting to Scrum During a Pandemic
Shelley Loethen is the founder of Encore Institute for Social Impact and implemented Scrum in the organization 2020. That’s right – at the height of pivoting to remote work and the unknown. While Shelley believes…
Scrum for One: Is it Possible?
A Scrum team, per the Scrum Guide, includes three roles (called accountabilities), the Product Owner, the Scrum Master, and the Developer (we usually say Team Member around here so there is no confusion in nonprofits…
Understanding Story Slicing in Scrum
In our last Office Hours, an attendee brought up the struggles of the team understanding how to slice stories into pieces of work small enough so that it fits into a Sprint. We like…