5 Creative Retrospective Techniques to Master Continuous Improvement
One way in which many teams introduce Agile practicing is by running Retrospective sessions. These are intimate discussions where peers review the past work cycle regarding »
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 »
Confluence Add-ons that will Increase your Team’s Performance
A while ago, Atlassian published a blog post under the title 4 Confluence add-ons to take your team’s collaboration to the next level.. We consider »
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 »
It takes more than tools to be Agile
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 »
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 »
Freshday in Santiago de Chile.
Last week, part of the SoftwareDevTools team had the opportunity to make it to Santiago de Chile for a special event: #FreshDay19. Freshday is a special »
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 »
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 »
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 »