Does your product backlog spark joy? It turns out that the same approach you use to declutter your home can also be applied to maintain a tidy – and healthy – backlog. Get ready to Marie Kondo it.
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Why is determining business value so complex?
“Have we been successful in delivering business value?” While this question is becoming increasingly important for many businesses focused on delivering customer value, it’s not as straightforward as you might think.
Gender diversity and inclusion is more than just a ‘pie chart’
With overwhelming evidence that gender diversity and inclusion are better for business, the female to male diversity pie chart has become an expected element in the recruitment and reporting process. But gender diversity is more than a pie chart.
How to resuscitate your agile retrospectives
Here’s the scenario: you’ve finished a huge sprint. The whole team has pushed hard to get it done. Catching up to talk about the past couple of weeks — is the last thing you want to do. But don’t let this opportunity pass you by.
Barriers to corporate innovation and how you can overcome them
Failing to innovate results in businesses dying. Find out the barriers that can impede innovation in the corporate context & how to overcome them.
Tips from startup titans for innovating within your business
Technological innovation alone won’t help you avoid disruption. It’s the ability to navigate the resulting changes in your business model that’s most important.
Five ways to build a collaborative culture in your organisation
We need collaboration to innovate. The sharing of ideas leads to more new ideas forming. The question is, how do you move from just talking about it, to taking action that gets results?
You either agree on creating business value, or you compete
Businesses are focused on using agile to deliver ‘valuable work’. But unless teams have a shared understanding of how value is measured – delivering real value may be missed in the process.
Leading and living a ‘human-first’ culture
Human-first cultures are more than just about meeting a sense of job satisfaction and offering flexibility between work and personal life.
What your business can learn from the Spotify model
Many organisations aspire to become the next disruptor in their market – and following its public listing on the New York Stock Exchange earlier this year, Swedish music streaming giant Spotify is still trending as a shining example. A large part of Spotify’s success can be attributed to its business operating model, which is based on the Agile Scrum framework. While the company…
Agile is the answer to transformation: but that won’t mean transformation will be simple
Agile comes with big expectations. Let’s look at why we shouldn’t expect transformation to be less complex, simply because we choose to be agile.
Amazon’s shift from presentation culture to memo culture
When you look for innovators in the modern business world, you look to Amazon. The company has made innovation its goal in everything that it does. They have to be because they need to stay ahead of customer demands. As Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos puts it: “Our customers are loyal to us right up until the second somebody offers them…