The BreakFree Blog

Where BreakFree experts share their wisdom, experience, and knowledge.

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Are Your Product Teams Focused or Revolving?

Form your product team on the corner of shared vision and required skillsets to reap the benefits of Agile and Scrum.

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Streamlining the Value Stream Mapping Process

When working with clients on their digital product initiatives, one of the first things we often do is create a value stream map (VSM).

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Scrum

Reviewing Backlogs to Promote Functionality

A functional backlog supports the PO’s vision and allows the team to bring that vision to life. By BreakFree Solutions To be productive,...

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Cross-functional Teams

Is Your Team Cross-Functional or Multi-Functional?

When looking to speed up production times, cross-functional teams are the superior structure. By BreakFree Solutions Staff Many use the...

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Scrum

The Digital Triad: DevOps, Agile and Cloud

You must operationalize all three By Bradley Clerkin The digital operating model for CIOs must include the triad of DevOps, Agile, and...

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Scrum

How to Best Use Your Talents in Scrum

Each Myers Briggs personality type has different strengths they can use through Scrum methodology By Sara Fauver, Senior Solutions...

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Scrum

Effective Application of Scrum Techniques and Tools

There are many different tools and techniques that can be used in Scrum — but not all teams should consider all tools all the time in...

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Cross-functional Teams

How to Stop Sabotaging Your IT initiatives

Using the Simple Sabotage Field Manual as a guide of what NOT to do and share some strategies we perform consistently at BreakFree.

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Cross-functional Teams

Taking the Pain out of Documentation

You have just finished developing your code. Now you must finish the documentation before you can release.

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Talent Transformation

How to Create Successful Sample Apps

Empower your platform team with safe and effective experience By Bradley Clerkin, BreakFree Solutions CTO At BreakFree, we build awesome...

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Talent Transformation

Forget “Training,” Build a Learning Culture

IT’s ability to hire, retain, and more importantly up-skill and re-skill talent is a critical component of a digital capable IT organization

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Cross-functional Teams

Consider Becoming a Consultant

BreakFree Solutions’ Engineers break down why it’s great to be a consultant.

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Scrum

Communicate. It's Simple. Not Always Easy.

Leadership must communicate to understand — not to demand— if they want to see real progress in their organization.

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Scrum

Swap Deadlines for “Do-Lines”

If your teams are dependent on deadlines to complete work, Agile provides a better way to boost productivity

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Automation

Robotics and Automation is a core capability for banking

Banks that can enable a fully automated bank operations are going to be far out ahead of everyone else.

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Scrum

Scrum and Story Points

Story pointing can prove to be a daunting task for teams. Learn methods on assigning points to scrum stories

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Scrum

Backlog Item Sizing with the BreakFree SprintEstimator

SprintEstimator is a tool based on a Scrum technique used to size Product Backlog Items (PBIs) during an event known as Sprint Planning.

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Scrum

Scrum For Two

Are scrum principles only for teams of 3 or more? Absolutely not! Scrum is a framework that can be used by any size team...

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Cross-functional Teams

Learning Change from Martin Luther King

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was an agent of change. He understood that society was not prepared to face the next century.

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Cross-functional Teams

Stop the Jam, Start Drawing

Did you know that it’s difficult for the human cognitive brain to retain more than 4 things at a time? And that takes memorizing...