PIVOT Agile

07/17/2020

When I was asked to be a part of this engagement I had no idea how cool (in more ways than one) or significant it would be.

PIVOT Agile often partners with other boutique consulting firms to meet the needs of larger companies. Springbach Consulting is fantastic!

A 140 year-old Consumer Product Goods (CPG) company, reached out to Springbach in early 2020 for help organizing their business teams around value to improve their supply chain.  The visionary Director of Supply Chain was looking to apply the SAFe® Framework to their process improvement business t...

03/27/2020

It's almost as if some of us have spent years preparing for this unusual time. Come join us today (March 27) at noon Eastern Time for our first virtual Midtown Atlanta Agile Meetup where Josh Kite will talk about Building Great Agile Teams Across Time and Space

Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 12:00 PM: Building Great Teams Across Time and SpacePresenter: Josh KiteFor this month's meetup, join us online as Josh shares about practical and demonstrated approaches to working

03/11/2020

Looking to turn those principles into practices? Wondering just how to schedule all of those meetings and syncs? It can sound overwhelming at first, so here's a go-by to get you started.

Some critics of the Scaled Agile Framework complain that it is too prescriptive. Generally speaking this comes from people who have not had much exposure to th

04/29/2019

Clickbaity title; real content!

Reducing the size and scope of your work dramatically improves your results.

Reduce risk by shrinking your batch size.

04/09/2019

Really good training is hard to find. If you need to get stuff done, then I highly recommend this class which is being offered by my friend and colleague Jeremy Pullen.

Kanban is taking the world of management by storm. Rather than prescribing a framework that has to be followed, it teaches the principles of flow-based knowledge work and how to use those principles to organically grow a kick-ass organization of leaders. Kanban can work in any environment where a co...

08/23/2018

Just helped a client wrap up a Program Increment Planning event. There are few things that will help an organization more than getting together face to face on a periodic basis.

05/25/2018

In Agile circles the word "Waterfall" is often an invective. But what, exactly, do we mean when we use that word?

Ahh Waterfall. Every Agilist's favorite enemy. If there's one thing the Agile community can agree on, it's that Waterfall is bad. "You're waterfalling your iter...

08/12/2017

https://www.pivotagile.com/single-post/2017/08/12/PIVOT-Agile-Announces-SAFe%C2%AE-Training-in-Atlanta

PIVOT Agile will be offering Leading SAFe® training on September 14-15, 2017 in the Atlanta area. This class will help leaders understand the elements that are ...

08/05/2017

“We don’t have the luxury of co-located teams, so I guess we can’t do agile.” Wrong!

08/05/2017

“The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.” Except when it isn’t. Wait, wh

07/24/2017

What did a group of directors for one of the world’s top brands have in common with a group of C developers from a different global brand? Both groups were work