Mission Driven Teamwork

Backlog grooming is the process our team uses to stay focused on the right work. Here is how to prioritize suggestions from the team with planned objections in to agile sprints.

A Friday Ship is a short note written by the team at the end of each week to share information on what’s changed, highlight where the team is stuck, and ask for help or feedback. It isn’t a presentation or a fancy “executive dashboard.” It’s the short, unvarnished truth.

The Action Meeting is a powerful team status meeting agenda. It's a miniature reflection and planning cycle that exists within an agile sprint—it’s a highly effective meeting format to update a team and clear roadblocks. It’s the team’s heartbeat.

How to organize an agile project using a Kanban board to enable working in short, agile sprints. Here's what columns to use and how to use them.

We'll show you how to sprint by formulating a short-term plan, executing, and using what you learn to plan the next sprint. We'll cover the purpose of sprint planning, Action Meetings, Friday Ship, backlog scrub, and retrospectives.

How to kickoff a new project for a mission-driven team in 3 steps: assigning roles and responsibilities, setting objectives and goals, and building a backlog of tasks.

Mission-driven teams go by many names: innovation teams, strategic teams, market discovery teams, process improvement teams, agile business teams, and many more. In this content series, we'll give you our perspective on how to form and operate an effective team.