Two Girls in an Agile World

First – Happy Summer break! The two of us girls have been a *little* distracted with house projects and some much needed vacation time. You could say we took off a Sprint – which IS actually a thing we do on a rare occasion. But more about that later… In our last post, Andrea talked […]

One of the most confusing parts of getting started with Scrum is understanding the Scrum events and how to schedule those events. This blog will give a brief overview of events and some pointers for scheduling and staying on track. Early on in our Agile careers with Scrum, we found ourselves in meetings asking ourselves […]

GIRLS. We were wrapping up a meeting with two male colleagues when it happened. “Thanks, girls!” one said as they left the meeting room. We looked at each other silently for about two seconds. “Do we say something?” One of us whispered. “I think so, yes.” The other whispered back. But by then the “boys” […]

In 2014, I was consulted as an SME (subject matter expert) to help draft user stories for a new platform my company at the time was building. Our dev team didn’t use Agile but the company had brought on a new project manager who was used to working within an Agile framework. As he coached […]

Agile can be daunting at first–it’s a completely different way of working, there are a lot of meetings, roles, and a set of principles to follow, so where should a team start first? We’ll get to that, but first, a quick explanation: You may hear Agile or Scrum.  Scrum is a framework within Agile.  The […]