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About Joel Bancroft-Connors

Joel Bancroft-Connors is a Principal Consultant at Applied Frameworks. His passion is to unlock and maximize the inner potential of others. He believes his roots in customer service, and its singular focus on serving the customer is where his enthusiasm for Agile comes from. In the classroom, Joel combines his passion to unlock the potential of others with decades of theater and game design experience to create engaging workshops for the participants. By leveraging his unique background, Joel can explain Scrum and Agile concepts in a way that ensures learners can immediately apply them to their professional lives. When he is not teaching, he spends time with his family in the Pacific Northwest. Read Full Bio

5 Reasons to Hire an Agile Coach

By Joel Bancroft-Connors|2022-03-28T18:00:17-04:00March 28th, 2022|Process, Training|

If your company is planning a transformation, or already has one underway, there are good reasons to hire an Agile Coach rather than doing everything yourself.

How to Incorporate Value into Agile Estimation

By Joel Bancroft-Connors|2022-03-26T07:08:42-04:00March 24th, 2022|Frameworks, Process|

How to use the Business Value Prioritization equation to incorporate value into agile estimates — and make better business decisions.

Agile Estimation Techniques

By Joel Bancroft-Connors|2022-03-25T08:32:25-04:00March 9th, 2022|Frameworks, Process|

Estimating anything in the world of software development is hard — these proven Agile estimation techniques make it a lot easier.

What Skills Does Your Agile Coach Need?

By Joel Bancroft-Connors|2022-11-08T10:54:24-05:00March 3rd, 2022|Frameworks, Training|

A practical guide to using the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel when matching skills and competencies to the roles required by your organization.

Evaluating Candidates with the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel

By Joel Bancroft-Connors|2022-02-28T08:20:58-05:00February 24th, 2022|Frameworks, Training|

A deep dive into using the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel for finding — and evolving — Agilists for your organization.

How to Pick the Right Agile Coach

By Joel Bancroft-Connors|2022-02-25T16:22:23-05:00February 8th, 2022|Process, Training|

Picking the right Agile Coach can make or break your transformation. Should you hire a full time Coach internally or bring in an expert consultant?

Agile Metrics: 4 Balanced KPIs to Measure Success

By Joel Bancroft-Connors|2022-01-20T08:37:26-05:00January 19th, 2022|Frameworks|

A breakdown of the only 4 metrics agile teams need to succeed: Cycle Time, Escaped Defect Rate, Planned-to-Done Ratio and Happiness Metric.

Tips for Taking the Scrum Master Certification Exam

By Joel Bancroft-Connors|2021-11-26T12:56:52-05:00November 25th, 2021|Training|

Test anxiety is a real thing — but preparation helps. In this article you'll learn what’s on the Certified Scrum Master exam, how it's organized, and how to prepare. Relax, you got this.

Sprint Cadence: A Pragmatic Guide

By Joel Bancroft-Connors|2021-10-18T09:25:26-04:00October 18th, 2021|Frameworks, Process|

A well-structured and well-communicated Sprint cadence is one of the essential elements of successful Scrum. A team with cadence is able to focus on the right things at the right time leading to better outcomes.

Agile Metrics: Quantifying Team Velocity

By Joel Bancroft-Connors|2021-10-05T04:54:42-04:00September 29th, 2021|Process|

As part of our ongoing series on agile metrics, this article dives deep into one of the most famous — or infamous — metrics of them all, Team Velocity.

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