We would like to address the concepts of Aligning Business with IT.  Do you think that Agile and Scrum are just for Information Technology or “I.T.”?  Agile approaches are actually about doing work differently.  Many adopting Agile or Scrum do not understand that these approaches are all about Business people and I.T. working together regardless of traditional roles.  Angela Johnson, Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach shares perspectives on the perpetuating myth that Agile or Scrum is just “for I.T.”.

The word ‘quality’ is not in the Agile Manifesto.Quality is not only implied, it’s integral to the values or principles of the Agile Manifesto.

One of the more popular reasons the Collaboration Leadership Team hears that their customers want to adopt Agile or Scrum is to increase quality.  This is something Angela Johnson, Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach addresses in this post based on recent customer interactions.

If Everything is Priority by Definition Nothing is PriorityKeeping with this month’s theme of Managing Changing Priorities, Minnesota’s Angela Johnson, Certified Scrum Trainer and Agile Coach offers tips on using Agile and Scrum to help order overloaded plates.

Collaborative Leadership Team’s Angela Johnson wrote about the Product Owner role in late 2014 offering good advice to P.O.s everywhere about how to be more effective.  In this post, Angela Johnson, Certified Scrum Trainer, offers tips to organizations struggling to fill this important role.