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April 2022
Agility helps organizations thrive through change. But how do you know if your organization is truly adaptable - or are you just going through the motions?
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April 2022
As organizations need to manage change and make decisions faster than ever before, we delve into the benefits of cross-functional agile teams.
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March 2022
Agile ceremonies are a framework for productive teamwork in product development. To do them well, you need to understand the methodology behind each step.
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December 2021
When comparing agile vs. waterfall, agile is better suited to iteration and adapting to feedback. However, the hybrid methodology can give the best of both worlds.
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November 2021
When comparing DevOps vs. agile, there are key differences in industry use, how they work in a team, and their primary focuses. Here's when you'd use each one.
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November 2021
Agile implementation works best when people at all levels of the organization buy into the transformation. Change is uncomfortable, so push-back is normal.
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November 2021
While the benefits of agile are plentiful, adopting an agile project management methodology takes time, investment from leaders, and the right tools.
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October 2021
Easy Agile Inception Weeks allow employees to work on projects of their own choosing. Leading to happier employees, more connected teams and a more innovative business.
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October 2021
When completing an enterprise agile transformation, communication, metrics, and agile culture will be key. Here’s how to set your team up for success.
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September 2021
Why Lyft choose Easy Agile User Story Maps for their digital user story mapping.
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September 2021
As change happens faster than ever, businesses need solutions that can adapt. An agile transformation helps with business agility so you can pivot and improve.
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September 2021
The lean methodology is about reducing waste and improving efficiency to maximize a consistent customer value. Here are seven ways it can help your business.
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September 2021
While agile methodology is great for small teams and start-ups, SAFe agile helps you apply these ideas in a large organization. Here’s how it works.
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September 2021
To stay agile, you need to keep evaluating your team’s approach. Enter the retrospective. This is a key meeting to help gain critical insights from each sprint.
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August 2021
Agile sprint planning sets up the success of each sprint. A great sprint planning session involves prioritizing backlog items and identifying your team capacity.
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July 2021
Sure, a Scrum Master is important. But what is a scrum master? They guide the Scrum team, help them align with agile methodologies, and help implement change.
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July 2021
During a Scrum workflow, the team moves smoothly through stages of product development and constantly evaluates what changes need to be made.
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July 2021
Sprint retrospective templates can help guide your team through each part of the meeting. That way, you’ll be sure to discuss each sprint thoroughly.
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July 2021
Agile games encourage team-building, learning, and continuous improvement. Here are five options that will get your team laughing as they learn about Scrum.
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July 2021
Lean agile reduces waste, lowers costs, and improves the quality of work. You can get started with this methodology by following the five lean principles.
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June 2021
To hold a successful big room planning session remotely, it's critical to over-prepare participants and session leaders and have the best tech tools available.
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June 2021
Agile meetings get everyone on the same page for an agile sprint or Scrum. To make them effective, keep empowering all voices and incorporating feedback.
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May 2021
The first thing to know in agile 101? Agile is not just a methodology — it’s a mindset that prioritizes efficiency, adaptation, flexibility, and collaboration.
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May 2021
These five agile estimation techniques help prioritize a backlog so sprint planning is simple and fast. The bottom line? The most important work goes first.
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May 2021
The daily Scrum is a team meeting to discuss the current sprint and see if the sprint or product backlog needs adjustments to achieve the sprint goal.
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May 2021
A great agile coach often has some formal training, knows the agile frameworks, is involved in an agile community, and keeps their methods current.
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April 2021
A great Scrum Master is a skilled communicator who knows their team well and encourages continuous feedback. Here’s how to successfully lead your Scrum team.
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April 2021
The agile principles are designed to help your team collaborate and work efficiently. Ultimately, they should result in a product your customers love.
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April 2021
The most important collaborations happen during sprints. To make those simpler for your team, we put together these Jira automations.
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April 2021
A burndown chart is an easy way to compare a projected work timeline with how the team progresses. Here’s how you can use it during agile product development.
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April 2021
To learn agile, it's key to understand iterative development and adaptation (not to mention ceremonies and roles). Then, you can scale agile to fit your teams.
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April 2021
An agile release train is part of the SAFe framework. It helps teams align on the business purpose of their work and coordinate the delivery of solutions.
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April 2021
Planning poker agile estimation is an easy way to get the whole team involved in predicting the work for a user story or sprint. Start with these six steps.
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March 2021
Scope management helps you avoid scope creep — changes that add to your project’s workload and timeline. Here’s how to create a scope management plan.
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March 2021
The Easy Agile Roadmaps app is an easy way to make easy-to-use product roadmap templates that work well with Jira. Follow these steps to get your template.
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March 2021
Agile project management is, more than anything, a mindset. It’s about collaboration, iteration, communication, and responsiveness. Here’s what you need to know.
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March 2021
Welcome to the first edition of 'Making Agile Easier' for 2021, where we share the best content in the agile space and what's making the rounds in our office.
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March 2021
Agile story point estimation helps team members see a product’s priorities and the effort each item needs. It also gives you room to refine your story mapping.
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March 2021
Software development methodologies can be combined and adjusted to fit a specific development environment. Take a look at these eight approaches.
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February 2021
T-shirt sizing is one of many agile estimation techniques that helps predict workloads and set realistic deadlines. It’s usually used to provide rough estimates.
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February 2021
A sprint backlog should be continually updated to reflect market changes and customer needs. Here’s how sprint backlogs and their updates fit into agile teams.
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February 2021
Agile planning not only helps the team and stakeholders understand the upcoming project. It’s an ongoing process that adapts to changes as they occur.
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February 2021
Here’s how agile software development life cycles respond to changes and adapt to consumer and market needs throughout sprints.
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January 2021
Just like any good agile team, the best jira plugins ultimately serve the customer's interest. Here’s how to find the plugins that will work best for your team.
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January 2021
A great agile team should be effective, self-sufficient, and collaborative. They should adapt to customer needs quickly and support each other in solving problems.
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January 2021
Jira project management tools can keep your work organized, to say the least. Plus, they can be easily customized and work well with Kanban and agile methodology.
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January 2021
User segmentation helps group your customers by common traits so you can deliver better experiences to each group. Here’s how Jira can help that process.
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January 2021
To find the best Jira tutorials, compare the offerings from these three sources. Keep in mind your budget and any certification or professional end-goals.
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January 2021
To get the most out of your agile workflow, you need to adapt it for your team. Learn how to do this and 11 other agile workflow tips.
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January 2021
Jira workflow is a must-have development tool, as it prioritizes the customer and is easy to adapt. Here’s how to get the most from your Jira workflow.
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January 2021
With a Jira Roadmap, you can define and organize your team's work, keep track of them through a timeline and share the work status with stakeholders.
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January 2021
Find the differences and similarities between Kanban vs. Scrum and how they can work together. For instance, Kanban can show how a step in a Scrum sprint looks.
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December 2020
For epics, agile teams need to take a broader look at how a large chunk of tasks fit together. An epic can then be divided into smaller tasks.
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December 2020
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) adapts agile practices for enterprises. Whereas agile practices work for a lean team, SAFe allows communication between teams.
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November 2020
This is the newsletter we send to our customers every other month packed full with top agile content, tips and tricks. It's all the best stuff we're sharing around the office.
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October 2020
Easy Agile Podcast Ep.2 with John Turley, Digital Transformation Consultant, Adaptavist
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September 2020
What does it mean to commit as a team?
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September 2020
Easy Agile Podcast Ep.1 with Dominic Price, Work Futurist at Atlassian.
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July 2020
Great agile teams have a crystal clear image of who their customer is. Customer personas help bring to life the hopes, dreams and pain points of your customer so that you build features with empathy and care.
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July 2020
Why is user story mapping so popular? In this post we cover why you should consider running story mapping sessions with your team and how to get started building your first story map.
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July 2020
Easy Agile Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Nick Muldoon, speaks with The Leadership Channel.
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June 2020
Learn how to create and apply user personas more effectively with these 10 tips, from research and writing to templates and tools.
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May 2020
The essential guide for agile teams who want to use user story maps. From user story mapping definitions and steps, to tools, examples, and tips for success.
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March 2020
For a lot of people, 2020 isn’t quite going as expected. We'll share some tips to help your remote agile team adjust to this new reality.
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October 2019
Scrum is one of the most popular approaches that teams use to organise their work and releases. Here is a guide to scrum agile ceremonies.
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October 2019
The idea of writing good user stories can seem like another “thing” agile piles on top. However for Agile Software Development, writing good user stories is essential. Here's why.
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July 2019
Learn how to create a roadmap in Jira. Easy Agile Roadmaps for Jira is the easiest way to visualize your product plan and keep everyone in the loop.
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July 2016