AgileDC is almost here! Not only do we have 11 speakers representing Excella, but we are also premiering our Manifesto for Scaling Agility at next week’s conference. Below is a quick teaser of what to expect from the Excella Agilists behind the Manifesto for Scaling Agility, and our diverse selection of expert speakers. Manifesto for […]
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Creating Blue Chips
Part Two in the Series: Increase your stock by investing in your future Blue-chip stocks have a reputation for being proven, experienced, well-known and dependable. Penny stocks also have a reputation, characterized as speculative, risky and cheap. If you want a stable financial future, it’s obvious that you would purchase as many blue-chip stocks as possible. […]
Best Tech Events for October 2018
Celebrate the start of Fall and cooler weather with us! Check out what our technologists are doing in the community and join us for an event this month: Kaizen: The Philosophy of Continuous Improvement Organized by: Washington DC Scrum User Group Monday, October 1st 6 PM – 8 PM Arlington Tech eXchange (Arlington, VA) Python […]
Finding Job Satisfaction: Growing the Next Generation
Part One in the Series: Increase your stock by investing in your future “You should be a teacher!” It was an innocent, sincere statement made by my high school Chemistry teacher after watching me help a friend with his assignment. I also immediately dismissed it; I wasn’t yet sure what I wanted to do with my […]
Agile Ancestry: A Mindset for Solution Development and Beyond
Some may believe that the Agile mindset is new and was recently “discovered.” In reality, it has a long history. We can trace its roots as far back as the early 17th century, starting with Francis Bacon’s introduction of the scientific method. Those empirical foundations provide the basis for how we work in an Agile-minded […]
Six Ways to Understand Customer’s “Why” and Achieve ROI – Part Two
In Part 1 we looked at straightforward ways to more easily maintain engagement with customers. Now let’s find out why they’re doing what they’re doing and how to use that insight to your organization’s, and their own, benefit. 4. Ask for Feedback and Listen Feedback is the insight an organization needs to determine if they […]
Best Tech Events for September 2018
Summer is coming to a close, but we still have events for you to attend! 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: MERL Tech DC Organized by: Kurante September 6th – 7th All Day Washington, DC Leadership & Influence […]
The Spine Model
My introduction to Agile came at my last job, where we underwent an Agile transformation using Scrum in a knowledge work setting. During the culture change, I went from “Developer” (I use quotes because we were not building software) to Scrum Master and eventually Assistant Agile Coach for the department. As the Assistant Coach, I […]
Six Ways to Understand Customer’s “Why” and Achieve ROI – Part One
We are all experts in using digital products, such as websites and mobile apps, to perform many types of tasks. At a bare minimum, we use websites to learn about, accomplish, and/or communicate something to others. But we don’t always appreciate why we gravitate towards the sites we use and why we keep returning to […]
Four Reasons to Upgrade to Angular CLI v6
At ng-conf 2018, the Angular team unveiled an astonishing suite of new features to come with the release of Angular 6. Brad Green, Misko Hevery, and Kara Erickson gave the Day 1 Keynote, in which they showed off what the Google team had been cooking up since ng-conf 2017. One of those things was the […]
