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…
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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…
STOP Doing Heroic Things!
Perhaps you’re wondering what types of heroic things I mean… Overtime. Working on the weekend. Turning a full vacation day into a half-day. Those are all heroic things that happen in…
How Do We Organize Sprints in Conjunction to Grant Writing?
How Do We Organize Sprints in Conjunction to Grant Writing? One of the questions that we are frequently asked is how long are our Sprints. The DH Leonard Consulting team comprises both the Marketing &…