Need a countdown timer?
Google has a simple solution. Just jump on over to Google and in the search box try:
“set timer 1 minute”
And there you go, a handy-dandy countdown timer. An actual timer that you can click ‘Start’ and it begins counting down. You can stop and reset it, as well as change the countdown duration. There’s a beeping sound to signal time’s up.
Bonus
You can hit the 
icon and go full screen with the countdown. Super easy. Great for training sessions, Retrospectives, Daily Stand-ups.
Having trouble trying to tease out user stories from your high-level Epics or Features? You’ll want to give Impact Mapping a try! Although the book “Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects” book has been out for several years, I recently revisited this book (quick read) and thought it had some valuable insight into how to your user stories oriented back towards the user. If I’ve seen it once, I’ve seen it a hundred times, the stories start to become tactical items, more technical, and we lose site as to why we are building what we are building. The quick summary:
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Manage by principles, not practices.
Just look, and you will see it. Newly minted Agile projects that are oozing with success and wonderment.
The more success, the more growth. As the Agile project succeeds and grows; we introduce more teams, more management, more bureaucracy. And, as if we were not looking, we will take a step back and see that in fact there is very little that we would recognize from that original Agile project.
Net Promoter Score
NPS – How to Calculate (http://www.netpromoter.com/why-net-promoter/know/ )
The Net Promoter Score™ is simple to calculate and has been proven to be an effective way to gauge the health of a company’s growth engine. However, the crucial part is being able to adjust those specific areas of your business that will increase customer loyalty. Corsential’s solutions show you exactly why your clients rate you the way they do so you have the data to make those crucial decisions.
Recognizing that the delivery of digital services within the Federal space is often over budget, over schedule, or simply do not work well, the government has developed a ‘playbook’ that describes 13 plays that can help to improve the delivery of solutions. (Note: These are appropriate for non-government projects as well.)
