If asked, “What is humanism?” most folks probably wouldn’t know what to say. Which is understandable. It’s hard to define and there’s a lot of misinformation out there.

Agile projects fail when misapplied, often due to poor risk management, scope creep, wrong methodology, lack of support, or not fully embracing Agile principles.

Explores Agile leadership, key approaches, challenges, and paths for managers to enable adaptability, innovation, and business-wide agility.

Scaling Scrum with Scrum-Of-Scrums (SoS) What is Scrum-of-Scrums? Starting with a brief introduction. The Scrum-of-Scrums is a scaled Scrum technique designed to coordinate the work of multiple small teams, typically Scrum teams with five to nine members each, working on the same project, program, or portfolio. This structure facilitates communication between teams to ensure that […]

Disciplined Agile delivers a result based on the solid foundation of other methods. Learn how to apply this agile toolkit for your team!

Today, Scrum has become one of the most widely adopted Agile frameworks. It enables teams and organizations to deliver value iteratively and

Product vision statements are concise, evolving, inspirational descriptions of a product's long-term goals and future state. This guide will explain how to develop your product vision statement and what to look for in a good one.

Playing sports can be filled with emotions. Athletes might feel nervous about try-outs or before a big competition, upset about losing or performing poorly, or excited and happy after a big win or a major accomplishment. To perform well in sport, athletes can learn to manage their emotions and cope with stress. However, some emotion regulation and coping strategies might be more useful than others. So, how can athletes learn to deal with their emotions and cope with stress in sport? In this article, we review what emotions are and how they influence athletes’ thoughts and behaviors in sport, as well as their impact on sport performance. We also review types of coping strategies that athletes can use to deal with stress and emotions in sport, and we explore ways that athletes can learn to develop better coping skills for sport performance.

The Art of Negotiating the Best Deal In this Great Courses video course/audiobook, Professor Freeman teaches you how to approach all phases of a negotiation, from simple day-to-day transactions to life changing matters; from simple conflicts with family members to job negotiations; from buying a car to negotiating multi-million dollar aircraft deals

Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy in which an individual interacts with others with the aim of achieving authority rather than power.

Find the optimal sprint length for your Agile projects with our practical guide. Make informed decisions and maximize productivity.

Survivorship bias or survival bias is the logical error of concentrating on entities that passed a selection process while overlooking those that did not. This can lead to incorrect conclusions because of incomplete data.

Innovation comes from the producer, not the customer. —W. Edwards Deming, Paraphrased from Out of the Crisis [1] Portfolio Backlog Details Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) is responsible for developing, maintaining, and prioritizing the Portfolio backlog. They actively collaborate with stakeholders, including Business Owners (many of whom are part of LPM), Product and Solution Management, Epic Owners, Enterprise Architects, and others, to discover the epics needed to advance the portfolio’s solutions. Portfolio Epics are large (and typically cross-cutting initiatives) managed through theRead more

“Since 2005, we've worked with clients to apply the LeSS (Large-Scale Scrum) framework for scaling Scrum, lean and agile development to big product gro...

Find out how the ROAM matrix (Resolved, Owned, Accepted, Mitigated) can help you manage risk effectively in your SAFe train. Learn how to assess, prioritize and monitor risks with this simple, practical risk management method.

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Kanban is an inventory control system used in just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing to track production and order new shipments of parts and materials.

Does your Finance Department discourage Agile software development because it would all be charged to operational expense?

A really simple approach to CapEx & OpEx financial accounting with Scrum. Why is this needed? The apparent mismatch between standard financial accounting practices and agile ways of working. Specifically CapEx and OpEx accounting, which is often a very important practice in (larger) organizations. This distinction seems to be at odds with having a more …

The Fibonacci scale was first documented in the Middle Ages, but many agile teams use it today to estimate story points. Here's why it works!

A fascinating recent WSJ piece titled, “How and Why to Ban the Silent Treatment from Your Relationship,” offered tantalizing keys to saving a relationship, but it left out a powerful way to practice those keys.Fortunately […]

Practically everything we do in life involves negotiation. Many important issues—the political future of nations, the scope of business, the purchase of a house—hinge on negotiation. But negotiation is also an integral part of our everyday lives, whether you are resolving a quarrel, creating a family budget, or simply deciding...

Changing the working world, one day at a time. In these times of a competitive employment market, companies are looking at how keep and nurture the best, and 'time' itself, could be the best currency.

In 1960, Douglas MacGregor, a student of Abraham Maslow, introduced the management concept of Theory X and Theory Y (Rice University, N.D.). They are essentially different approaches to management.…

Create harmony between agile and your team’s culture.

Many executives are worn down by confusion around project business objectives and recognize the need for more involvement from stakeholders.

What is meant by Agile Leadership, what are the benefits of a more agile leadership style and which competencies does an Agile Leader need?