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…
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Connecting Big Picture Thinking with Daily Action: Systems Thinking vs. Scrum
When leaders in the social impact sector first discover Agile, they often look at the ecosystem of modern management models and ask, “How does what we’re already doing fit into this?” This moment is…
Another Meeting? We Don’t Have Time for That!
Imagine office chatter among grumbling staff members: “There isn’t enough time in the day to add yet another meeting to our calendar, so this will never work.“ Or consider an opinion someone might voice to…
The Tools Don’t Make You Agile
One of the most common questions our team is asked is, “Which project management tool is best for us?” The answer is that it depends… …It depends on what software your team already uses…
Acceptance Criteria Versus Definition of Done
When teaching the Scrum framework, one of the common questions of the nonprofit professionals learning the framework is how are acceptance criteria and definition of done different? To help explain, let’s think about a…