Showing 13 to 18 of 18 blog posts in the project management category.
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Letting Go of JIRA: One Team's Experiment With a Physical Sprint Board
At Caktus, each team works on multiple client-service projects at once, and it’s sometimes challenging to adapt different clients’ various tools and workflows into a single Scr... Read more
August 21, 2017 -
Transitioning to Scrum: Mapping Job Titles to Scrum Roles
Early in your transition to Scrum, you will be faced with a hard truth: your team or organization has job titles and Scrum has roles, and there is probably little to no overlap ... Read more
August 7, 2017 -
From User Story Mapping to High-Level Release Plan
At Caktus, we begin many projects with a discovery workshop. A discovery workshop is an opportunity for our product team to get together with client stakeholders in order to ans... Read more
July 31, 2017 -
Using Tokens During Sprint Planning to Allocate Time
In January of 2016, Caktus transitioned from a general Agile development environment to a more focused Scrum environment. Part of this transition entailed moving from a targeted... Read more
May 8, 2017 -
Using Priority in Scrum to address team anxiety
In Scrum, the backlog of tasks is ordered by the Product Owner from highest to lowest business value - not merely prioritized - so that the team knows what the most valuable ite... Read more
December 21, 2016 -
Adopting Scrum in a Client-services, Multi-project Organization
Caktus began the process of adopting Scrum mid-November 2015. It took us six weeks to design and execute a process and transition plan. This is how we did it: Read more
April 11, 2016
