Sprint Your Way to Sanity: Adapting Agile & Scrum for Prospect Development

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Do you ever feel like you are drowning in projects? Do you often struggle to say "no" to taking on more? This is the path to burnout and unmet expectations. But don't fret! You can manage the volume and become a savvy negotiator while centering employee wellness. In three years, UNICEF USA honed a scrum-based agile project management approach to manage increasing workloads. With origins in software development, we tailored what worked for us: we created an integrated project management board in Trello, organized two-week "sprints", and customized "rituals" allowing us to purposefully plan and track our project work. In our third year, we set a data-driven KPI and dashboarded our expected vs. actual workload. This incentivizes individual accountability to not take too much on. When urgent projects emerge, we can assess bandwidth and are empowered with tools to deprioritize other projects. This approach provides greater visibility and collaboration opportunities across research, relationship management, data science, and campaign planning teams and integrates mindfulness techniques critical to our team culture. Let us help you maintain your sanity by learning about how to make project management more manageable.

Lindsey Nadeau

Vice President, Data, Insight and Campaigns

UNICEF USA

Lindsey Nadeau is vice president of data, insight, and campaigns at UNICEF USA, where she guides the philanthropy division toward data-driven decision-making and automation across campaign planning, prospect research, relationship management, database management, reporting, analytics, gift processing, and record management. She has previously held advancement services roles at The George Washington University, the Center for American Progress, The American University, and Public Citizen. Lindsey is Secretary of Apra International’s board of directors, where she has held multiple volunteer roles including chairing the 2020 Prospect Development conference. She previously chaired aasp’s Prospect Development Best Practices committee, co-chaired CASE’s Prospect Development conference, and contributed to CASE’s 2023 book Advancement Strategies: A Reference Guide for Advancement Services Professionals, 4th Edition. Lindsey holds a BA in economics from The American University. 


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Sprint Your Way to Sanity: Adapting Agile & Scrum for Prospect Development
Recorded 08/28/2023  |  60 minutes
Recorded 08/28/2023  |  60 minutes Do you ever feel like you are drowning in projects? Do you often struggle to say "no" to taking on more? This is the path to burnout and unmet expectations. But don't fret! You can manage the volume and become a savvy negotiator while centering employee wellness. In three years, UNICEF USA honed a scrum-based agile project management approach to manage increasing workloads. With origins in software development, we tailored what worked for us: we created an integrated project management board in Trello, organized two-week "sprints", and customized "rituals" allowing us to purposefully plan and track our project work. In our third year, we set a data-driven KPI and dashboarded our expected vs. actual workload. This incentivizes individual accountability to not take too much on. When urgent projects emerge, we can assess bandwidth and are empowered with tools to deprioritize other projects. This approach provides greater visibility and collaboration opportunities across research, relationship management, data science, and campaign planning teams and integrates mindfulness techniques critical to our team culture. Let us help you maintain your sanity by learning about how to make project management more manageable.
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