In my last post, I described how we started with Kanban at Silverline to help them become a more agile marketing firm. Early on, we kept the focus on mapping their system, visualizing the work, and agreeing on explicit policies (think: rules of the road) that would drive them towards achieving results. After giving the…
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How to Develop an Agile Testing Mindset and Automate Everything
Would you like to build a product with very few defects? Would you like to be able to ship a new version of your product every two weeks or even faster? Would you like to meet your customers’ needs more quickly? If you answered yes to any of these, then I would recommend taking Excella’s Certified Agile Testing and Automation…
How One Team Learned to Embrace Challenge and Succeed with Agile Marketing
The latest post in Excella and Silverline Communications’ Business Agility: A Marketing Agency’s Transformation blog series is here! In their third post, Silverline reflects on the surprising challenges and unexpected successes of their Agile Marketing journey. Like many teams, the small marketing and communications agency struggled with initial change. But once the team began “to…
Your Code Base is a Living Space – Sarah Mei’s Delightful Concept
I was at IBM’s INDEX Developer Conference earlier this year and it was a nice change to be surrounded by code—and how to think about code. Before I was an Agile Coach, I was a software developer, so this was a way to return to my roots. I thought the most compelling talk at the…
Top Four Highlights from .Net Core 2.1
.Net Core 2.1 was announced recently by Microsoft along with corresponding updates for ASP.Net Core and Entity Framework Core. You can check out Preview 1 by installing from the Getting Started page or by downloading the latest docker images from Docker Hub. And don’t let the minor version fool you, there are some exciting new…
Best Tech Events for May 2018
April showers bring May tech events! Check out what our technologists are doing in the community and join us for an event. Here is this month’s list of upcoming events: DCA Live’s 2018 Chief Marketing Officers Organized by: DCA Live Wednesday, May 2nd 6 PM – 8 PM Washington, DC NoVA Code and Coffee Organized by:…
Starting at SilverLine: Building the Foundations of an Agile Marketing Team
During our first week on the job, coaches are presented with an excellent opportunity to help our teams and model the behavior we hope to see from them. And it doesn’t even involve solutioning! Though it’s tempting to show results right away, firing off solutions to obvious, but ingrained, problems is one of the last…
Unifying the Backend – Why We Need to Unite Data Science and DevOps
Your company has invested in data science; you’ve created data teams, invested in expensive data scientists and tools, and set your goals. So why isn’t it working? Chances are it may be how you are organizing your data team. Inevitably, if you try to build a data science team and/or project within a silo, isolated…
How Can Agile Marketing Teams Find the Right Coach?
Excella and Silverline Communications’ joint blog series, Business Agility: A Marketing Agency’s Transformation continues! In Silverline’s latest post, Founder and President, Laura Taylor, discusses why the right Agile coach made all the difference in her team’s Agile journey. As a non-IT team, Silverline sought a coach who could translate Lean and Agile principles in a…
My Take on Agile Assessments
Are you at the start of your Agile Journey? Or do you want an outside view on how well your journey is going? We find that organizations often request an Agile assessment to learn more about their current state and what the next steps ought to be. The Challenge The challenge is that most assessments…
