One of the most common concerns of those who attend trainings with Agile in Nonprofits is about having a chance to practice their Agile values and framework skills like Scrum or Kanban before they put…
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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…
3 Things I’ve Learned as a Scrum Master
Work is better when you’re Agile. I’ve been credentialed as a Scrum Master for the better part of six months and an actual Scrum Master for… two weeks? Yeah, that sounds about right. After…
Have Your Listening Ears On
I had the privilege of chairing the preschool in my small rural town before our school district in the years before our school district was able to launch their pre-K program. Over the course of…
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…