Agile Transformation Insights
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...
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...
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...
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...