Tag: Scrum
Scrum vs. Kanban: “Renting vs. Owning” the Process
I have always found the analogy of owning vs. renting a useful tool for exploring...
Scrum vs. Kanban: How Do They Treat Work in Progress?
Team Scrum or Team Kanban? No matter whose team you’re on, we want to support...
How do Technical Practices Fit in Kanban?
Your team is getting ready to start with Kanban or perhaps they already have been...
So You Want to Drop Your Retro
Many Agile approaches, such as Scrum, have a focused event (the retrospective) to reflect on...
Encouraging Diversity as a ScrumMaster
I am a woman of color who did not grow up in this country. I...
Cross Post: What Should Our Reliance on Estimation Be
One of our resident Agile Xperts, Paul Boos, shares his thoughts in the post, “Views...
Three Steps to Agile Project Success
In our last post, we talked about three common reasons Agile projects fail: Lack of...
3 Reasons Why Agile Projects Fail
Imagine this. Your team, which has used a traditional waterfall approach for as long as...
UX Tools for the Business Analyst: Part 2
In Part 1 of UX Tools for the Business Analyst, we discussed the importance of...
UX Tools for the Business Analyst: Part 1
Whether you’re building a new system from the ground up or modernizing a legacy system,...
Baby Scrum (Sounds Better than “Lean-Baby-ban”)
Sometimes taking your work home is something we try to avoid. But sometimes it just...
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...