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...
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...
The Manifesto for Scaling Agility
At Excella, we believe that continuous learning and knowledge-sharing fuels innovative thinking. The company created...
Agile Ancestry: A Mindset for Solution Development and Beyond
Some may believe that the Agile mindset is new and was recently “discovered.” In reality,...
My introduction to Agile came at my last job, where we underwent an Agile transformation...
Kanban in Action: The Workshop
As the two Kanban Trainers at Excella, Mark Grove and I think a lot about...
Responding to Change Over Following a Plan: Agile Lessons from Antarctica
I spent the first part of January in Antarctica hanging out with penguins, whales, and...
Improving the Team, One Retrospective at a Time
“The definition of insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting...
Learnings from LeanAgileUS 2018
In February, Julie Wyman and Trent Hone traveled to Fort Lauderdale, FL for LeanAgileUS. The...
The Product Backlog: Two Is One Too Many
I recently finished a certified LeSS (Large Scale Scrum) practitioner course and was particularly intrigued...
What are the Differences Between Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban?
In this blog, I provide a short summary comparing three Agile approaches I often hear...
Inspecting and Adapting for Continuous Improvement
In my last post, I described how we started with Kanban at Silverline to help...