Do's & dont's for your Agile Retrospective sessions
The SoftwareDevTools team considers Retrospectives so valuable that not only do we run them frequently, we have also developed a tool that makes it really easy »
8 tips for better Stand-up meetings
Being synced with your team is vital to develop great products or services. That is one of the main reasons remote and hybrid work models have »
Digital Workplace Summit 2021 - Distributed teams can be aligned
The mainstream adoption of hybrid work models has transformed the workplace in such a radical fashion that we are still getting used to it. Many organizations »
Distributed Agile: The challenges and opportunities
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past months, you should be familiar with how the remote and hybrid work models are 'the »
Tips for more accurate Estimating Sessions
Estimating how much effort a task will take to be completed can be tricky. It gets near to impossible in the context of an innovation project »
Walking the Board alongside Stand-Bot
We like Agile frameworks mainly due to their effectiveness, team integration, and cost-saving principles, but we also love how playful some practices can get. In particular, »
Scrumban can improve syncing between remote and hybrid teams
First coined by Corey Ladas in 2009, Scrumban is a term that defines a system that incorporates Scrum-based frameworks with Kanban practices to help teams better »
Stand-Bot can automate your Daily Stand-ups with highly customizable features
Hybrid work came to stay. When rightfully executed, it can lead to year-on-year productivity improvement rates of even 13%, as this Great Place to Work two-year »
Speed-up your Daily Stand-ups while keeping them effective
If your Daily Stand-ups are taking longer than 15 minutes, you surely are doing something wrong. Whether it is people giving way too many details or »
Efficient Agile Retrospectives with Improved follow-up on action items
The key point of doing Sprint Retrospectives is to keep your team committed with continuous improvement practices. Its essence is to “plan ways to increase quality »
Post-Mortems vs. Agile Retrospectives
As George Santayana once said: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. That is why in project management, there exist Post-Mortems and »
Transparency in your dev team increases performance and saves money.
Keeping your team's work fully transparent for every member is crucial. This will help you stay away from a lot of inefficiencies in your team that »
Moving our bot from Stride to Slack Part II
Last year Atlassian announced the acquisition of all of the Stride and Hip-Chat intellectual property by Slack. A decision that definitely caught us, SoftwareDevTools, and other »
The importance of Agile Communities. A conversation with Reese Schmit
SoftwareDevTools publishes #AgileTalks. A series of video interviews with Agilistas worldwide. We discuss several topics that are of interest for Agile methodologies practitioners. On one of »
SoftwareDevTools in Deliver:Agile 2018
The SoftwareDevTools team is a proud sponsor for this year's Deliver:Agile conference! Deliver:Agile 2018 is the Agile Alliance's yearly technical conference, focusing on Agile »