Introducing the Agile Extension to the BABOK® Guide version 2
This summer, the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) partnered with the Agile Alliance to...
Last week, five of Excella’s Agilists traveled to Orlando, FL for Agile 2017 for a...
Dear Agile: Not Your Average Stand-Up
This post is in Excella’s Dear Agile series of blog posts. DEAR AGILE: Recently, a...
Leadership, Kanban and Agile 2017
I’m really looking forward to Agile2017 and am thrilled to be speaking there. I’ll be...
In my previous post, I discussed ways in which anyone can become a leader by...
Agile Transformation efforts are characterized by change: new practices, new processes, new technologies, and often...
Should the Product Owner Come From the Client or Vendor?
We often see a scenario where we have vendors/contractors working with a client to deliver...
How We Did It (with Agile): Building the USCIS Civics Test Study Tools App
This spring, with Excella’s help, the Department of Homeland Security’s US Citizenship and Immigration Services...
Sprint Zero or Not to Sprint Zero
A colleague of mine recently asked me and a few other Excella developers our opinions...
Teams new to Kanban often spend far too much time debating what their initial work-in-progress (WIP)...
In my previous blog, I explained why learning about system models (also known as causal...
This post is the latest in Excella’s Dear Agile series of blog posts. Have a...