30 tips and best practices to help your company make the transition to remote work and distributed teams — ⚠️ Warning ⚠️ Before reading, please note that all the tips and tricks in the world won’t help if your company doesn’t have a culture that supports work from home. If you didn’t have a remote company culture before, now is the time to make the switch. It all begins…

How to create a Discord server as a gaming hub and a list of the best games to play online with colleagues — During this challenging time, when everyone is figuring out the best ways to work from home, continuing to socialize with remote colleagues is also important. In our previous guide, focused on distributed teams and best practices for remote work collaboration, we mentioned online coffee breaks (Swedish Fika) and other ways…

In an increasingly VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) world, remote work and distributed teams just make sense. — Not all companies can work remotely and distributed, but most can work at least partly distributed. If your company hasn't done so already, it’s time to head in that direction. Even before the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, remote work has been consistently on the rise. …

Run any Organization in Favro — There has been a single unifying constant in every one of the hundreds of organizations I’ve visited around the world: too many software tools and applications. Think about it. Even if you’re a solopreneur, you probably have a multitude of different products to help run your company. Even with integrations…

See Who’s Idle, Who’s Overwhelmed and Who’s Just Right — Now and Looking Ahead — Struggling to understand who’s currently busy and who isn’t? Need to determine if you have the right people and skills for projects looking into the future? From Project Managers to self-managed teams, these challenges can be solved with Favro utilization boards. …

Create Your Own “Spotify Model” in an Infinitely Flexible App — Agile transformations in most organizations begin with the teams that create value. It could be teams developing software, teams creating marketing campaigns, or any team building a product or service. Of course, this is also true for agile startups. As they grow beyond what’s essentially a cross-functional team of ten…

How to Implement the Scaled Agile Framework in a Single Non-Prescriptive App — No Plugins Required — As a SAFe® Program Consultant over the past four years, I’ve seen SAFe implemented using a variety of tools. Some of them are designed with SAFe as the inspiration for their core design, and others use a plethora of plugins and workarounds to jerry-rig a SAFe implementation. The former are…

How to Run a Game Studio in a Single App — The games industry is a $138 billion market as of 2018 and expected to grow to $180 billion in 2021. By far the largest chunk of that revenue comes from the content. As seen in the below chart, game content revenue grew over 23% from 2017 to 2018 to $35.8…

Combine the Best of Both Scrum and Kanban in a Single App — Scrum and Kanban are the two most common frameworks for implementing an agile way of working. They’re two of the best ways to foster the agile mindset and realize tangible benefits from the Agile Manifesto’s values and principles. If agile is the soul, then Scrum and Kanban are the body. …