The Latest from Retrium
Why Retrospectives Matter
In our newest episode from the Expert Hot Seat series, the facilitators examine "How to Raise Engagement" because 🎉 RETROS ARE COLLABORATIVE🎉
Business Agility
Agile First: The Workforce Of The 'Next Normal'
The current trend in the digital workplace is that every company is trying to outdo the others on its future work-from-home policies. First, you had Google announcing that employees can work from home until the end of 2020, and then we saw Dell and Twitter declare that staff can actually continue to work from home permanently.
Teams, Coaching & Facilitation
6 Diagrams I Use to Explain Product Management Concepts
I wanted to share 6 diagrams I find myself frequently using to when discussing Product Management ideas. These are a few drawings are well-received and convey the point well.
Technical Agility
Always Wash Up After a Sprint
Agile works well, but its cyclical nature leads to some challenges that practitioners need to be aware of for successful implementation. One of these challenges is the tendency for the team to repeat the same mistakes over and over again, sprint by sprint. Perhaps this happens because the daily standups give teams a false sense of security over the status of the sprint. As a result, though the team thinks they’re in control of the project, something systematically wrong may be happening in the background unnoticed.
Agile Outside of IT
Why Employees Should Feel as Agile as Leaders Do
Many leaders felt they had rapidly and profoundly increased agility over the last few years. The pandemic accelerated the process, forcing many businesses to be more nimble and much more decentralized. This acceleration allowed decision-making and execution to be faster than even leaders thought possible. It really is an extraordinary transformation, and leaders should be impressed with it.
5 Agile Practices That Are Fueling Marketing Teams
Each spring, the annual State of Agile Marketing Report sheds light on how Agile ways of working are being adopted within marketing. This year, for the first time in the report’s three-year history, Agile techniques overtook those maintaining traditional processes.