Stefan Wolpers June 17, 2020 TL; DR: Remote Agile Transitions We are used to saying the Scrum is a perfect probe for organizations, as it will reliably discover all dysfunctionalities. Since the pandemic has forced many of us to work remotely, this unique capability has been kicked into overdrive regarding remote agile transitions. Here are … Continue reading Remote Agile Transitions — The Top-Ten Challenges
Anthony Mersino June 17, 2020 The sad reality is that though well-intentioned, most agile transformations fail. By fail I mean they are canceled, reversed or fall short of delivering the desired results. To be clear, agile transformation success is different than agile project success. Success rates for agile tend to be significantly higher than those … Continue reading Most Agile Transformations Will Fail
Marilou Alcaide June 16, 2020 Testers rely on multiple sources for required information in their daily lives. The more sources there are, the higher are the chances of misinterpretation. Generally, in every release, a tester relies on four major sources for information: People Documentation Infrastructure Software People A release involves stakeholders, project managers, end-users, developers, … Continue reading Why Testers Need to Think Critically to Avoid Misunderstandings
Jeff Previte — June 15, 2020 Workplace productivity fuels your business. But of course, it can also hinder your growth if your teams are struggling to get things done. There are so many factors that hurt employee productivity, including too many meetings, too much time reading emails, and a lack of processes. One of the … Continue reading What is Scrum? The Answer to Your Company’s Productivity Woes
Anthony Mersino — June 3, 2020 One of the most common conversations I’ve had with clients over the last few years is how to move from waterfall to Scrum. They want to understand the agile transformation steps, or, how to move from traditional development to using the Scrum Framework. Based on those discussions and years … Continue reading How to Successfully Transition from Waterfall to Scrum
Considering adding a workflow or project management solution to your martech stack, but looking for a business case? Pamela Parker on May 13, 2020 Digital marketing – involving everything from search engines to social media to display ads to email to mobile apps and more – is a complex endeavor, whether marketers are in-house at … Continue reading The benefits of using workflow and project management tools
Don Dalrymple — May 11, 2020 A simple way to think about whether you are growing a business, in addition to productizing your services, is to stay focused on repeatability. There is no end to one-off projects you can likely get involved with and provide solutions for. However, there’s a lot of cost when you … Continue reading Get Rid of the One-off Projects
Accountability and transparency are two of the benefits these solutions offer. Pamela Parker on May 11, 2020 The Project Management Institute (PMI) defines a project as “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result. A project is temporary in that it has a defined beginning and end in time, and therefore … Continue reading What are enterprise workflow and project management tools and how do they help marketers?
With the workforce at home, a rise in agile adoption, and organizations making major pivots in strategy, the need for these types of platforms is likely to continue. Henry Powderly on May 4, 2020 With the lion share of marketers currently working from home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, digital workflow and project management tools are … Continue reading Project management tools take center stage as distributed marketers crave ‘single source of truth’
Cesario Ramos — April 8, 2020 This is the first part of a blog series about product definition in Large Scale Scrum. In large product development, teams tend to work on just a part of the real product. The part—a narrow product definition– is often a component or a specific activity in the development process; … Continue reading Product Definition in Large Scale Scrum – Part 1
