What Lies Beneath: Symptoms of Ineffective Scrum Practices
Symptoms of ineffective Scrum are often misleading or hard to see — or understate the scale of the problem. This article explores why.
Expert Tips: Facilitating Large In-person Events
Facilitating large in-person events can be challenging for anyone. Here are some relatively simple tips you can follow to pull off an amazing event.
Webinar: Vertical Story Slicing Takes the Cake!
Applied Frameworks Principal Consultant Kim Poremski takes a deep dive into Vertical Story Slicing. She discusses the characteristics of a well-formed story, explores common patterns for effective story slicing, shows how to identify clues for when/how to slice stories, and examines sample stories to practice applying story slicing techniques. Oh! She answers questions too!
Burndown Charts: 7 Tips for Effective Use
Burndown charts can communicate a team's Sprint progress quickly and clearly. However, they aren't easy to create — or use — correctly.
Get Quality Feedback During the Sprint Review: Ask the Right Questions
Sprint Reviews are a crucial part of Scrum. They allow team members to inspect and adapt their work to meet customer expectations. One of the most important aspects of a successful Sprint Review is getting quality feedback from stakeholders.
Using Customer Segmentation and Term Renewal to Increase Profit
In the first post in our Recession-Proofing Your Profit series, I shared the basic structure of Term Renewal Acceleration, in which a product manager creates an offer to accelerate an annual term renewal with a limited duration renewal discount. In this post, I will expand on the basic structure of Term Renewal Acceleration to show how adding advanced customer segmentation based on product usage data can further increase profitability.
Accelerate Renewals to Prepare for Economic Headwinds
This blog series, Recession Proofing Your Profit, will share three specific strategies that product managers can employ to fulfill their responsibility of creating sustainable profits amid economic crises.
An Awesome Value Stream Mapping Byproduct: Alignment
Value stream mapping, when done right, can have an awesome secondary benefit: team alignment.
How to Improve the Five Whys Technique
In the last decade, the Five Whys technique has become standard Agile practice. The technique can lead to unintended consequences, however, so we're proposing an alternative: Five Whats.
6 Tips for New SAFe Program Consultants
Becoming an SPC can be a springboard for your career, but to fully take advantage of what you learn, you must continue learning to become a fully realized Agile leader.