Category: Scrum

A picture of the United State Air Force's F-86 Sabre fighter jet. This picture shows the bubble design of the cockpit.

Scrum and Fighter Pilots

I come from a heavily military family. Both of my parents, my sister, both of my grandpas, and many more of my family members stretching back generations were all in the military. Like most military families, one of our favorite pastimes is ribbing other military groups. Due to their stereotypical

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The power of Agile in startups

[cs_content][cs_section parallax=”false” separator_top_type=”none” separator_top_height=”50px” separator_top_angle_point=”50″ separator_bottom_type=”none” separator_bottom_height=”50px” separator_bottom_angle_point=”50″ style=”margin: 0px;padding: 45px 0px;”][cs_row inner_container=”true” marginless_columns=”false” style=”margin: 0px auto;padding: 0px;”][cs_column fade=”false” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″ style=”padding: 0px;”][cs_text] Above: Matt Rooda, CEO, and intern George Elossias, in front of a Scrum board, in 2015 A few weeks ago, I sat in on SwineTech’s sprint

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Startup Accelerator members gather at tables for a work session in one of the Geonetric building's colorful common areas

Updates from ISA – Meet the Summer Batch!

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output] It’s been a big week for the Iowa Startup Accelerator! Recently, we announced the three teams that we accepted into the summer batch of our 2017 cohort, and we started a How to Start a Startup program to help new entrepreneurs learn about the basics

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Agile 101, FOCUS Framework, and Coffee with the Cohort: ISA Weeks 1 and 2

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output]With the countdown clock ticking down the seconds until Launch Day, the ISA 2016 Cohort is acutely aware of just how fast the 90 days fly. The first week of the ISA was filled with intense training sessions to teach teams how to maximize the brief time.

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