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How to reap the benefits of smart PI objectives
April 2022
Stop wasting time and focus on the work that matters with smart PI objectives. Find out how to make them work for your organization.
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Being agile vs doing agile | Easy Agile
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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Should you form cross-functional agile teams?
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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Agile Ceremonies: Your Ultimate Guide To the Four Stages
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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How to Make the Most of Your Sprint Goals
December 2021
To set a realistic sprint goal, set a clear definition of done and a clear understanding of why the goal matters. Keep these three other tips in mind.
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Agile vs. Waterfall: The Pros and Cons of Each Methodology
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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The Ultimate Scaled Agile Framework Enabler: Software
November 2021
The right software can act as a Scaled Agile Framework enabler by giving you the enterprise-level functionality so you and your team can pivot fast.
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DevOps vs. Agile: Differences and Common Ground
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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Agile Implementation: How to Choose an Approach and Framework
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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What Is Agile Project Management? Plus 6 Key Best Practices
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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Why I'm stoked on Inception Weeks 🤙 (and your employee's will be too!)
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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5 Things to Avoid During an Enterprise Agile Transformation
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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Lyft boosts velocity by 20% with digital user story maps
September 2021
Why Lyft choose Easy Agile User Story Maps for their digital user story mapping.
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One and done: Discover how PNI media embraced virtual PI planning
September 2021
Why PNI Media choose Easy Agile Programs as their digital PI Planning solution.
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The Case for an Agile Transformation and the Challenges Ahead
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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7 Lean Methodology Benefits for Development Teams
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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How SAFe Agile Increases Enterprise Performance
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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The Ultimate Guide to Agile Retrospectives [2021]
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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The Ultimate Agile Sprint Planning Guide [2021]
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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Sprint Retrospective Templates to Help Run Better Sprints
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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5 Agile Games for Innovative Learning
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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Understanding Lean Agile and the 5 Lean Principles
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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How to Approach Your Agile Release Plan for Successful Development
June 2021
No matter what feature it’s for, an agile release plan should involve the whole team. Here’s how to create a release plan with smooth and collaborative sprints.
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How to Lead Agile Retrospectives that Create Constant Improvement
June 2021
An agile retrospective's success is often in its planning. Following a regular format yet brainstorming new solutions at each meeting can help improve each sprint.
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Use Cases vs. User Stories: How They Differ and When to Use Them
June 2021
While software development doesn’t favor use cases vs. user stories, use cases offer many advantages, including more context, a planning skeleton, and more.
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The Future of Big Room Planning: 8 Strategies for Virtual Teams
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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How to Get the Most From the 4 Key Agile Meetings
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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Agile 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Agile Methodology
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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5 Agile Estimation Tips To Help With Backlog Prioritization
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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How Visualizations Can Improve Your Dependencies Management
May 2021
Here’s how to optimize dependencies management — anticipating, identifying, and resolving dependencies that keep other projects from getting completed.
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Daily Scrum: Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid
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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How to Become (and Remain) a Great Agile Coach
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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Become a Successful Scrum Master With These 6 Tips
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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12 Agile Principles to Motivate Your Team and Delight Your Customers
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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5 Steps to Holding Effective Sprint Retrospectives
April 2021
To get the most out of sprint retrospectives, make sure you’re holding retrospectives regularly, hearing all perspectives, and leaving with action items.
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Streamline Your Sprints With 9 Jira Automations
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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How to Use Burndown Charts for Agile Product Development
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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Learn Agile First — Then Learn How to Scale It
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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5 Steps to Lay the Tracks for Your Agile Release Train
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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Planning Poker — Agile Estimation Technique How-to Guide
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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How Scope Management Helps You Prioritize Features
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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Easy Agile Roadmaps: How To Create a Product Roadmap Template
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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Build Trust Across Your Teams With Agile Project Management
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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Making Agile Easier | February 2021
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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Agile Story Points: Measure Effort Like a Pro
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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8 Software Development Methodologies Explained
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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Agile Estimation Techniques: A Deep Dive Into T-Shirt Sizing
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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Sprint Backlog 101: Never Stop Refining
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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How To Avoid These 5 Agile Planning Mistakes
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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Your Guide To Agile Software Development Life Cycles
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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Essential Checklist for Effective Backlog Refinement (and What To Avoid)
February 2021
Backlog refinement, a must-do for any agile team that doesn’t want to waste money, keeps the backlog updated and accurate. Here’s what to do and avoid in the process.
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4 Easy Agile Jira Plugins to Improve Your Jira Experience
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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How To Use Jira To Support Your User Segmentation Strategy
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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The 3 Key Roles in an Agile Team
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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Easy Jira Project Management with Kanban
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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The Best Jira Tutorials, Training, and Certifications
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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12 Steps To Getting a Rock-Solid Agile Workflow
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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Step up Your Jira Workflows With These 7 Best Practices
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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What Jira Roadmaps Can Do for Agile
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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What’s the Difference Between Kanban vs. Scrum?
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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Using Epics: Agile Teams Maximize Performance With This Tool
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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Why large enterprises need Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), not team-level Agile
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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Making Agile Easier | November 2020
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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Easy Agile Podcast Ep.2 - John Turley, Digital Transformation Consultant, Adaptavist
October 2020
Easy Agile Podcast Ep.2 with John Turley, Digital Transformation Consultant, Adaptavist
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Story Points: definition, how-to & why they matter
September 2020
What are user story points and how do you estimate them? Learn everything you need to know about story points for agile teams.
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Commit as a team
September 2020
What does it mean to commit as a team?
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Easy Agile Podcast Ep.1 - Dominic Price, Work Futurist at Atlassian
September 2020
Easy Agile Podcast Ep.1 with Dominic Price, Work Futurist at Atlassian.
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What is User Story Mapping?
August 2020
Get a clear user story mapping definition. We break down the components of user story mapping, alternatives, and what it looks like.
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Introduction to customer personas
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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Why User Story Mapping?
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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Meet Atlas Authority - Easy Agile Partner
July 2020
Easy Agile speaks to Boris Berenberg from Atlas Authority, an Easy Agile partner based in the United States.
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7 Tips for Easier Remote PI Planning [During COVID-19]
July 2020
Remote PI Planning is difficult when you haven't done it before. With the right tips and tools you can succeed in finding alignment across your agile release train.
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Easy Agile is now a Scaled Agile Platform Partner (SAFe®)
July 2020
Atlassian Marketplace Platinum Vendor, Easy Agile, is pleased to announce our status as a Scaled Agile Platform Partner. Scaled Agile, Inc. is the provider of the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®).
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Leadership lessons from the Easy Agile Co-Founder and Co-CEO Nick Muldoon
July 2020
Easy Agile Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Nick Muldoon, speaks with The Leadership Channel.
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10 tips for more effective user personas
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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The Ultimate Guide to User Story Mapping [2021 Guide]
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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Remote Agile Tips: Transitioning your workplace and teams
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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Easy Agile Year In Review 2019 [Infographic]
December 2019
[Infographic] 2019 Easy Agile Year in Review. The latest stats from agile companies using Easy Agile Apps for Jira.
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The guide to Agile Ceremonies for Scrum
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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How to Write Good User Stories in Agile Software Development
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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How to create a Jira roadmap using Easy Agile Roadmaps [2021 update]
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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The Difference Between a Flat Product Backlog and a User Story Map
April 2018
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Story Maps — A visual tool for customer focused development
July 2016
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