Agile Retrospectives
The key point of doing Sprint Retrospectives is helping your team to keep nourishing a continuous improvement spirit in a concrete and fast manner to effectively implement its outcomes. Retrospectives purpose, in a high-level sense, is to “plan ways to increase quality and effectiveness”, as stated on Scrum.org, and
Agile Retrospectives
Agile Retrospectives are a very helpful way to have the team reflect and discuss. It’s a safe zone for the team to point out what they’ve been doing right and what do they need to improve. We’ve talked about how to set the right mood to empower
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In software development, time is a central concept, and delivering value as early as possible is a primary driver for the industry. Teams build products to save users precious time, and these tools are made in a prioritized fashion, mitigating waste. Even though many teams use Agile frameworks to successfully
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An area that has been gaining a lot of attention these couple of years in Software Development is User Research. Agile User Research is an activity focused on generating insights for product owners and project managers into what drives adoption of a tool or feature. For many of us that
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The problem is not your team, or the process. The problem are your outputs. Based on an article by Leon Tranter. If you are part of a software development team that uses Agile methodologies, then you know that the key to your team’s continuous improvement in the long term
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This post was inspired by Mike Cohn’s: Does a Scrum Team Need a Retrospective Every Sprint? We at CatapultLabs realized that it is very often that we find a team member that either does not perceive the full value of having an Agile Retrospective session every sprint or that
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Agile practices are for everyone, in every industry (yes, even if you are not in the tech industry), not just software development. Today, almost everything is made of software. If you are still holding on to old organization paradigms, you are leaving money on the table. Let CatapultLabs tell you
Tools
Once I had a job where my primary mission was to properly implement the usage of a CRM they had acquired some months ago. Would you guess which was the most challenging part? It was not to develop a functional data structure, integrate it with other platforms, or customize its
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Is Agile a culture or is it only just a software development thing? What makes a team a truly Agile team? Why are values important? What changes are required in order to support an Agile culture? These are the questions we are addressing in this post. Remember that CatapultLabs is
Remote Work
By Chatty Garrate. Follow her on Twitter. Remote-Workforce: A Trump Card or a Hindrance? Remote work has been around even before the world was hit by the pandemic. It has provided countless professionals—including those who belong to the IT sector a flexible alternative to earn money while concentrating on
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Are you aware of how much value your work adds up? Individuals and teams need to have a concrete idea of their impact in any business environment. But how do you measure value? At first thought, some could consider profit and value as synonyms. Equating how much revenue can be
Agile Retrospectives
The software development industry has brought much wisdom to other sectors. Many good practices meant to reduce as much waste as possible while amplifying value for the customer and the organization are currently used in marketing, HR, sales, and business intelligence, just to name a few examples. One concrete example