Automate Your Daily Stand-Ups with Stand-Bot's 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 helping your team to keep nourishing a continuous improvement spirit in a concrete and fast manner to effectively »
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 »
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 »
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, »
World Retrospective Day
February 6th is a special day for the Agile community worldwide. February 6th was the #WorldRetrospectiveDay, a volunteer-based, globally coordinated effort to share in the power »
Our collaboration tool for Stride - Stand-bot.
Since the very beginning of SoftwareDevTools, we have been obsessed with the way remote and onsite teams collaborate. When we first launched PlanningWith.Cards as a »
Embracing Agile: A Harvard Business Review Review. Part 3.
SoftwareDevTools is making a Harvard Business Review Review (catchy title, huh!?). In 2016, #Agile legend Jeff Sutherland wrote an article with Management Experts Darrell K. Rigby, »
Embracing Agile: A Harvard Business Review Review. Part 2.
SoftwareDevTools is making a Harvard Business Review Review (Yeah, that's not a typo). We are dissecting the famous article: "Embracing Agile" by Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff »
Embracing Agile: A Harvard Business Review Review. Part 1.
Last year, Management & #Agile legends: Darrell K. Rigby, Jeff Sutherland & Hirotaka Takeuchi, got together and wrote a research paper (find it here) making an »
Custom Retrospectives: One size does not fit all.
One of the main goals of Agile methodologies is continuous improvement. The most important event for this is Agile Retrospectives. A very important part of Agile »