What is Participatory Budgeting? Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a consensus building process through which a group of people in your organization (in our case the product and leadership teams) choose which Epics to fund, aka what work will get prioritized. How do you run a participatory budgeting session? Epics: Have a list of defined and sized Epics, including those in WIP and…

As Product Owners we have the opportunity to align our teams on a destination, and to achieve better plans with our Big Room Planning process. Consider the impact strong product direction and alignment have on our teams. …

How do we, as leaders, adapt the value stream process to put individuals and interactions over processes and tools? — Organizing around value is a tenant of the Scaled Agile Framework, the most widely applied scaling method for Agile. It is essential to reducing time to market, and building a productive workplace with happy employees. Every product or service has a value stream that goes from a trigger to delivering…

I get asked all the time how I got into agile without a background as a developer. Many of the people who ask me that question are seeing agile practices take over across industries and wondering if they should try it. …

I recently started as a Scrum Master at a new company. My last company had strong agile practices and ran the basics, textbook, without thinking. My new team spent my entire interview process and on-boarding asking how they can do that as well, and told me I was the expert…

Last month I wrote about Agile Central’s Planning Calendar and the lead up to our Big Room Planning event. Now, I will dive deeper into the week of Big Room Planning and the event itself. …

As a Scrum Master I get a lot of questions from our customers and other Agilists about how we plan at Agile Central. What is our planning process? What is Big Room Planning (BRP)? What do we do leading up to BRP for things to go smoothly? …

(This post was written in collaboration with William Kammersell and simultaneously published on the Agile Central blog. You can also listen to a conversation with us on the Product Popcorn podcast — Episode 18) Agile Teams must adapt to thrive through retrospective and process experiments, but what about organizations? …