Moving along in the theme of common Agile mistakes, I wanted to address the topic of intentions. If you’ve ever had a child (or been one), it’s easy to picture someone doing something right for…
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Measuring Agile Metrics
Measuring Agile Metrics In a previous post, I mentioned isolation as a common mistake that some organizations make when trying to implement Scrum. This week, I’m going to delve into the mysteries of company metrics…
Improving Improvements
Improving Improvements Agility is like a house. Well, actually the house is like an organization, and Agility is making that house mobile. Applying an Agile framework like Scrum to a company creates large changes for…
Agile Tools for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Agile Tools After just about every training we host at Agile in Nonprofits, one of the questions that comes up is “what Agile tools do you suggest for Scrum boards?” or “which Agile tool…
If You Want to Go Far – Community of Practice
The English poet John Donne said it well when he wrote that no person “is an island, entire of itself.” We are interconnected to one another as people, and a crime we commit against ourselves…