Stand-Bot can automate your Daily Stand-ups with high customization 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 »
The business value of an Agile Retrospective.
For a couple of years now, SoftwareDevTools has been helping distributed teams adopt Agile, and we've worked with a lot of teams. We've built tools to »
8 Tips for Daily Standup Meetings
Keeping aligned is really important to Agile teams and, according to the Scrum methodology, daily stand-up meetings are the tool of choice for that. When done »
Do's & Dont's for your Agile Retrospective Session
This is based on ScrumAlliance's article: Do's and Don'ts of Agile Retrospectives: Tips for healthier retrospectives The SoftwareDevTools team is on a quest to make Agile »
Agile Retrospectives in remote teams.
This post is based on Ben Linders' blog When working with remote #Agile teams, even though the team can't gather in one location, you still want »
Distributed Agile Software Development. Challenges and Opportunities
The increase in remote teams in the last years is about 159%. That’s why in SoftwareDevTools team we want to share the best practices for »
How to lead Effective Agile Retrospectives Sessions.
(This post is based on Rob's Guide to Effective Retrospectives) Facilitating an #Agile Retrospective session is super easy and anybody can do it. Facilitating a productive, »
Agile Retrospectives for Beginners
Is your team new to Agile Retrospectives? Are you new to facilitating Agile Retrospectives? Worry Not! SoftwareDevTools is here to help! We have been working with »