Tag: agile
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From Chaos to Clarity: How I Rebuilt a Broken Agile Workflow
When I transitioned from engineering to project management, I thought I had a decent grasp of Agile. I’d sat through sprint reviews, added tickets to Jira, and even debated the finer points of story points versus hours. But nothing prepared me for inheriting a team buried in chaos. The devs were smart. The product was…
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How to make the most out of your Sprint Retro

In every Sprint, the team isn’t just iterating on the product—it’s also refining how they work together. A powerful opportunity to assess and improve collaboration and processes is the Sprint Retrospective. So, how can you make the most of this valuable checkpoint? Building a Blameless, Constructive Culture In a productive retro, the team reflects on:…
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The Art of Kaizen

Kaizen a Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement of working practices, personal efficiency, etc. Kaizen, encourages us to optimize our processes, efficiency, and practices over time. In our last post, we discussed the inevitable accumulation of tech debt as a product scales and explored ways to prioritize addressing it. Now, let’s look at actionable steps…