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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, Agile Coaching, Software Development

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...

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, Kanban, Scrum

Scrum vs. Kanban: “Renting vs. Owning” the Process 

I have always found the analogy of owning vs. renting a useful tool for exploring...

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

Agile 2017 Key Takeaways

Last week, five of Excella’s Agilists traveled to Orlando, FL for Agile 2017 for a...

Agile, Kanban

Leadership, Kanban and Agile 2017

I’m really looking forward to Agile2017 and am thrilled to be speaking there. I’ll be...

Agile, Dear Agile, Kanban, Scrum

Dear Agile: Scrum vs. Kanban

This post is the latest in Excella’s Dear Agile series of blog posts. Have a...