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Agile, Agile Adoption, Best Practices, Kanban, Scrum

9 Methods to Get More from Your Agile Adoption

Getting started with Agile is straightforward; succeeding with it is challenging. You can’t just introduce...

Agile, Agile Adoption, Agile Coaching, Scrum

9 Signs You’re Struggling with Agile Adoption

Your team adopted Agile to get better—to accelerate delivery and improve performance—but now that you’ve...

Agile, Agile at Scale, Scaling, Software Development

The Manifesto for Scaling Agility

At Excella, we believe that continuous learning and knowledge-sharing fuels innovative thinking. The company created...

Agile, Agile Coaching, Tools

Agile Ancestry: A Mindset for Solution Development and Beyond

Some may believe that the Agile mindset is new and was recently “discovered.” In reality,...

Agile, Kanban, Professional Development

Kanban in Action: The Workshop

As the two Kanban Trainers at Excella, Mark Grove and I think a lot about...

Agile, Kanban, Scrum

Scrum vs. Kanban: Management’s Explicit Invite

Kanban and Scrum ask different things of management; what do they explicitly say about management’s...

Agile, Lean

Lean Agile Scotland – Designing the Future

Once again, Lean Agile Scotland was an excellent conference full of thought-provoking ideas and stimulating...

Agile, Best Practices, Culture

A Beneficial View of Hierarchy

In many parts of the Agile community, hierarchy is viewed as a necessary evil. Hierarchical...

Agile Coaching, Culture

Options vs. Constraints

One of the things I enjoy most about conferences is the opportunity to meet new...

Kanban

What are Heuristics and How Can They Accelerate Decision-Making?

In the earlier posts in this series, I introduced Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS), and contrasted...

Agile, Kanban, Scrum

Effective Use of Constraints: Scrum vs. Kanban

In the first post in this series, I introduced the concept of Complex Adaptive Systems...

Agile, DevOps, Kanban, Tools

Improving DevOps Flow with Kanban

We’re a relatively small team of engineers at Excella focused on developing, improving, and maintaining...