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 […]
Recent Posts
Now, What Meeting is This?
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 […]
Bringing the Sugar and Spice
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” […]
A No-Brainer
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 […]
Getting Started: How to Transform your Team with an Agile Process
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 […]
Agile for Learning and Development Teams: It’s not just for software anymore.
Long before we implemented an Agile process for our own Learning and Development team, we were really interested in the Agile process. We started at our company—a late 90s startup—in 2014 as a new Learning and Development team. Being from the startup mentality, a training department never existed, and for the most part, training didn’t […]