Agile

4 common issues with implementing Agile and how to address them

Kelsea Zhang — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 07:00:00 +0000

4 common issues with implementing Agile and how to address them Kelsea Zhang Wed, 08/17/2022 - 03:00

Whether it's lack of awareness, support, participation, or poor user stories, there are certain strategies that make handling these problems more manageable.

While working on the open source ZenTao project, I get constant feedback that getting Agile up and running is a big task in many organizations. As with any new process, you…

How movie posters inspire engagement on our open source team

stefmat — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0000

How movie posters inspire engagement on our open source team stefmat Fri, 07/22/2022 - 03:00

Using Design Thinking, be creative in how potential projects can be discussed and shared with stakeholders, while still capturing all the key pieces of information.

For the past several years, Design Thinking has been providing a way to enhance problem solving within teams, to ensure learning goals are met, and to increase team engagement…

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Build Design Thinking into your team processes

lgriffin — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Build Design Thinking into your team processes lgriffin Thu, 07/21/2022 - 03:00

Fun at work can often feel forced, with team-building activities, but it can help to take the engagement paradigm that is Design Thinking, and bake it into your process.

Teams require some kind of process to coordinate work and ensure that the output of many focuses on a singular goal. Within the software industry, this has taken the form of…

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Put Design Thinking into practice with the Open Practice Library

lgriffin — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Put Design Thinking into practice with the Open Practice Library lgriffin Wed, 07/20/2022 - 03:00

The Open Practice Library includes a curated set of community-contributed practices for teams to implement Design Thinking concepts.

Design Thinking has been getting a lot of attention over the past few years as a way to enhance your problem solving, ensure learning goals are met, and increase team…

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Why Agile coaches need internal cooperation

Kelsea Zhang — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Why Agile coaches need internal cooperation Kelsea Zhang Mon, 07/11/2022 - 03:00

An Agile coach is only as successful as their Agile partner. Here's how to foster internal cooperation and create an Agile team.

If you're an Agile coach, you probably seek to inspire and empower others as an external member of your team or department. However, many Agile coaches overlook the importance…

What scrum masters can learn from dancing

Kelsea Zhang — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 07:00:00 +0000

What scrum masters can learn from dancing Kelsea Zhang Fri, 06/17/2022 - 03:00

Like dancing, being a scrum master takes coordination, verbal and nonverbal communication, and cooperation.

Many scrum masters have an obsession with quickly turning their teams into what they want them to be. Once their expectations are not met within some arbitrary time limit, or…

Top 8 open source project management tools for agile teams

admin — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:04:00 +0000

Top 8 open source project management tools for agile teams admin Mon, 06/13/2022 - 03:04

In this roundup of open source project management tools, we look at software that helps support Scrum, Kanban, and other agile methods.

Opensource.com has surveyed the landscape of popular open source project management tools. We've done this before—but this time we've added a twist. This time, we're looking…

3 practical tips for agile transformation

Kelsea Zhang — Fri, 27 May 2022 07:00:00 +0000

3 practical tips for agile transformation Kelsea Zhang Fri, 05/27/2022 - 03:00

Try these tips to help your team make the agile transformation.

Agile transformation happens at three levels: team agile, product agile, and organization agile. Helping your team convert to agile is the first and fundamental step in agile…

5 tips to avoid these common agile mistakes

Kelsea Zhang — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0000

5 tips to avoid these common agile mistakes Kelsea Zhang Fri, 04/29/2022 - 03:00

Invest time in training, incorporate agile into individual interactions, and write modular code designed for flexibility.

Agile is a tried and true discipline used by software development teams worldwide with great success. In my previous article, I listed mistakes I've made in the past so you…

5 agile mistakes I've made and how to solve them

Kelsea Zhang — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0000

5 agile mistakes I've made and how to solve them Kelsea Zhang Tue, 04/26/2022 - 03:00

Take agile to your organization, don't be afraid of enduring a few mistakes for the benefit of making your teams better.

Agile used to have a stigma as being "only suitable for small teams and small project management." It is now a famous discipline used by software development teams worldwide…