michael mccalla

dad, sports enthusiast, youth sports coach. Nell VP. Agile and Lean practitioner, coach, product guy, speaker, author, and trying to make a difference!

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@DelcoBaseball @Fords_Baseball @eric_genther LH Legend! 👍👍👍👍

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@DelcoBaseball @MattStrahm Yes he is!!!!!

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@CoachHilliard16 @MPFriarBaseball @C_Newell20 @DelcoBaseball That's awesome!!! @NELLNation_Org

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@DelcoBaseball Incredible baseball game. No one deserved to lose that one. Two fundamentally sound squads.

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Team members complaining there are too many meetings? This is one of the most common issues teams raise during scrum retrospectives. Ryan Ripley has a great exercise called "There is a scrum event for that." https://t.co/L9pnKC5Tkb #agile #scrum #kanban #retrospectives

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Ever heard of the "WhoDo" game? It's a fun way to identify stakeholders. It's a great activity for not only identifying stakeholders but aligning on a strategy for how to communicate and collaborate with them. https://t.co/s381w5k060 #agile #scrum #kanban

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There are many ways to create a Product Roadmap. Roman Pichler happens to have one of my favorites! In this blog post he outlines three qualities of a great product roadmap including it being Goal Oriented, Shared, And Actionable! Check it out! https://t.co/53vWnGbgJr

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We just published a new blog post outlining practical tips to improve "Team Envisioning & Ideation" which is part of our "Team Agility - Advanced" template. It covers everything from Vision to Roadmaps, Discovery Kanban, and more! #agile #scrum #kanban https://t.co/RX7pjw9Ohl

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We recently added some highly requested features to our Lean Agile Intelligence platform. We are updating our platform with new features and enhancement all the time. DM me for a free extended trial. https://t.co/G2gyY7jtCO

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Pretty amazing dashboard in this article that uses probabilistic forecasting at scale. https://t.co/L8bu5I1cfQ To get started, track the date that items start and finish. It's pretty amazing what you can do with that little bit of information! #agile #kanban #scrum

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Awesome blog post on Martin Fowlers website about implementing a micro front end strategy! https://t.co/kiyubAvUfZ. #agile

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One of our most recent, fully customizable assessments is the Professional Kanban assessment, which can be used to help teams identify areas of improvement, growth goals, and impediments and track continuous progress. DM me for an extended free trial! #agile #kanban #prokanban

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Excellent new post on the Agile Uprising blog about practically applying flow metrics to any framework or process. Focuses on making metrics actionable to ask great questions! https://t.co/Dq5BGOwYAm #agile #scrum #kanban #SAFe

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The Business Agility Assessment in Lean Agile Intelligence is the culmination of years of experience and insight into high performing organizations. DM me for a free extended trial!

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Andy Cleff discusses different approaches to giving feedback in this blog post and what NOT to do. You can read about it here: https://t.co/4EHqTL0P0b

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Great post I just read related to treating teams like features factories at scale. The intentions are good but a true product mindset takes while to adopt. Teamwork is often still lacking but we can always improve! https://t.co/M9UcBHgf70 #agile #scrum #ux #product

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A great interview with the Porsche CIO and VP or R&D about applying business agility to an automobile. . “If you look right now in a team, you couldn’t distinguish whether a person is from R&D, IT, sales, or marketing. They work together.” - CIO Ulbrich https://t.co/9Ds3o7zZhK

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An awesome concept from the book "Team Topologies" is the practice of taking the API concept and applying it to the entire team in the form of a "Team API." In this blog post, it covers an example of what that means how how can use it for your teams! https://t.co/b57uTuBPCk

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The four pillars of emotional intelligence are Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social awareness, and Interpersonal Management. We tend to focus heavily on IQ, processes, and tools but we are humans first. Nice blog post here to get started with EQ! https://t.co/6jKlkMN7VX

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Julia Wester has a great post titled 3 Questions to Ask During Standup to Keep Speed a Priority. In it she outlines one of my favorite methods for actuality getting things done, focusing on item age! Highly recommend. https://t.co/txfUIbQTLX #agile #kanban #scrum