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Agile, Scrum, Software Development

Sprint Zero or Not to Sprint Zero

A colleague of mine recently asked me and a few other Excella developers our opinions...

Agile, Kanban

How to Set Initial WIP Limits

Teams new to Kanban often spend far too much time debating what their initial work-in-progress (WIP)...

Agile, Agile at Scale, LeSS

How to Create a System Model

In my previous blog, I explained why learning about system models (also known as causal...

Agile, Dear Agile, Scrum

Dear Agile: Two-Week Sprints – Just Infinite Deadlines?

DEAR AGILE – I’m not a fan of the idea of two-week sprints. An infinite...

Agile, Dear Agile, Scrum

Dear Agile: Can We Have Multiple Product Owners?

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

Agile, Business Analysis

Product Owners: Help Your Senior Leaders Give You Useful Feedback

Has this happened to you? You are giving a demo to a stakeholder who is...

Agile, Dear Agile, Scrum

Dear Agile: The Role of a Tech Lead

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

Agile, Project Management

The Vaguely Right Agile Release Forecast

“It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong.”– Carveth Read. What does this...

Agile, Best Practices, Culture

A Beneficial View of Hierarchy

In many parts of the Agile community, hierarchy is viewed as a necessary evil. Hierarchical...

Agile, Agile Coaching, Scrum

Simulating Scrum by Building a LEGO City

At the January Games for Agility, Learning, and Engagement (GALE) Meetup, we ran a version...

Agile, Tools

Physical vs. Digital Story Maps

As I wrote previously in this blog, story maps help teams identify the Minimum Viable...

Agile

Agile Transformation in 2 (Simple) Steps

So, you want your organization to adopt Agile practices? All right, let’s do this! It...