Product Owners: How Deep in Debt Are You?

Product Owners: How Deep in Debt Are You?

Technical debt like money debt can insidiously accumulate. For many Product Owners, technical debt is tasteless, odorless, and colorless. Yet, if allowed to grow unchecked, it will gradually eat away at quality, maintainability, and future product scalability....
Here’s Your Agile Training, Now Go be Agile

Here’s Your Agile Training, Now Go be Agile

Many companies approach Agile training like they approach any other kind of organizational enrichment, attend a class, workshop, webinar, etc. This is an effective first step to introduce Agile concepts.  It lays the theoretical groundwork for teams to learn what...
CRi Solutions Podcast: Agile SAFe

CRi Solutions Podcast: Agile SAFe

CRi Solutions Episode 4. In this episode we discuss the Agile SAFe Framework for those that wish to continue scaling Agile within their organization. We have with us today, Tom Schaeffer, CRi’s Agile Practice Director. In this podcast we discuss: What is SAFe...
What is a Kanban Agile Strategy?

What is a Kanban Agile Strategy?

What is a Kanban Agile Strategy? Kanban is a popular framework used to implement agile software development. It requires real-time communication of capacity and full transparency of work. Kanban is Japanese for “visual signal” or “card.” Toyota line-workers used a...
Agile Trends Shaping 2018

Agile Trends Shaping 2018

Last quarter VersionOne (now CollabNet) released their 12th annual State of Agile report. This report is the largest and longest-running agile report in the world and an indicator of Agile trends.report in the world and a bellwether indicator of Agile trends. Data is...