The 6 Enablers of Business Agility
Many organisations are built to survive and thrive in a 20th century business climate. A climate marked by relative stability and low levels of competition, where efficiently delivering known products and services for years was the recipe for success.
How a Psychologically Safe Working Environment Can Help Your Organization to See More Innovation and Growth
This talk covers the following topics: 1) What, why and how and OKR – Psychological Safety check for Agile teams helped our organization 2) Quick tips and best practices to […]
Thawing the Frozen Middle to Create a Self-organizing Transformation
I bought in to the Agile fantasy that managers go away, or are at least less destructive than before a transformation occurs. But here I am, in the middle of a large scale agile transformation at the fourth largest bank in the world – and there are managers EVERYWHERE.
Testing Microservices – See It, Feel It, Touch It, Heal It, Explore It
Microservices are becoming more prevalent. External behavior of an application depends on multiple services working together. Each service needs to be checked that it both provides the desired behavior as well as handles exceptions and error conditions, such as the inability to communicate with a dependency.
Test Automation as a Team Responsibility
Perhaps you have tried automating tests in the past, but ended up with an intimidating number of UI tests that take hours to execute. Although you’ve been maintaining the tests for months, you’ve never once seen them all pass.
And That’s Agile, Jack!
Ever had two tacos at Jack in the Box? Ever wonder what goes in to every decision of how to source, price, prepare, and deliver that taco to you? There’s […]
Scrum for Digital Marketing – Control the Chaos and Deliver Value
Radical disruption and social media go hand in hand, yet with things moving so quickly, there is a constant need to inspect, learn and change.
Top Ten Tips for Making Remote Work Actually Work Right Now
Shakespeare knew what he was talking about when he wrote, “Some are born great remote workers, some achieve great remote work, and some have great remote work thrust upon them.” […]
20 Years is Enough! It’s Time to Update the Agile Principles and Values
Agile originated, in part, as a reaction to twentieth century bureaucratic excesses. The Agile principles and values were created when Agile was in its infancy; they were more aspiration-based than […]
Agile Alliance at 20
A look at Agile Alliance on its 20th anniversary.
Escaping Legacy
When you already have an application that is in the hands of your users, delivering value, it can be quite a challenge to get back in control of quality. So […]
How I Used My Agile and Design Thinking Toolkit to Navigate the Unknown and Drive Change
As a Technical Lead and Systems Engineer for the Department of Defense (DoD), I took a one year career broadening assignment to be an external change agent at NASA Goddard […]
