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Though Scrum was originally created for software development, its basic principles can be applied to nearly any type of work across an array of markets and disciplines. With a little creativity and a solid understanding of the fundamentals, you can make Scrum work for you and your team.

One of the many joys of working from home is avoiding rush hour headaches. But commutes to work have a purpose — they are cues that your work day is beginning or ending, and provide a clear separation between home and the office. How can you recreate this when working remotely?

At Alley, we pride ourselves on being creative and having fun outside of the projects we work on for our clients.

Watch the video to learn some of the ways we automate code quality checks. These checks ensure we ship higher-quality code with less time and effort, and a higher success rate than manual review.

How do you approach marketing on a small budget and tight timeline? Create an MVP for marketing just like you do for product development!

Minimum Viable Product is a great agile concept. Here’s how we applied it to our Helperbot product development process.

We know the importance of valuing people and have set up systems and best practices for making our employees feel cared for starting long before they accept an offer to work with us. Here are three people-first principles we’ve incorporated into our hiring process that you can try too. 

Check out our latest video hosted by Product Manager Allison Greenwald and former Digital Strategist Rebecca Viser, Accessibility and Strategy: How They Interact, discussing ways to create content that’s accessible for everyone.

Understand the story behind Helperbot, our asynchronous Scrum solution for distributed and co-located teams – built by the Alley team.

The Scrum world is replete with creative and delightful symbolic stand-ins meant to help people get good with story pointing.