Tag: Scrum
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...
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...
Sprint Zero or Not to Sprint Zero
A colleague of mine recently asked me and a few other Excella developers our opinions...
Dear Agile: Two-Week Sprints – Just Infinite Deadlines?
DEAR AGILE – I’m not a fan of the idea of two-week sprints. An infinite...
Dear Agile: Can We Have Multiple Product Owners?
This post is the latest in Excella’s Dear Agile series of blog posts. Have a...
Dear Agile: The Role of a Tech Lead
This post is the latest in Excella’s Dear Agile blog series. Have a question for...
If LeSS is Already Large-Scale Scrum, What’s LeSS Huge?
One of the first things I discovered while attending Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS) training is that...
Simulating Scrum by Building a LEGO City
At the January Games for Agility, Learning, and Engagement (GALE) Meetup, we ran a version...