Most organisations acknowledge that change is a strategic imperative to stay ahead of new technological and economic developments. As businesses around the world have struggled to navigate pandemic-induced uncertainty and shifting consumer behaviour, it’s understandable why many have pursued organisational transformation in the hope that it’ll enable the business to operate at a higher level—to become more agile, productive, innovative and profitable.
Building effective remote working teams
The shift to remote team management can help leaders demonstrate their agility. By remotely aligning their teams and embracing autonomy, agile leaders are able to keep their team on track.
The hierarchy of remote working needs
Is your organisation transitioning to remote work? Discover the hierarchy of remote working needs required to enable your team to work effectively remotely.
How to approach agile portfolio management
Andrew walks you through how to set up an effective agile portfolio management framework, and fine tune it so that it fits your organisation’s needs.
The life-changing magic of tidying up your product backlog
Does your product backlog spark joy? It turns out that the same approach you use to declutter your home can also be applied to maintain a tidy – and healthy – backlog. Get ready to Marie Kondo it.
Why your sprint retrospectives are losing momentum
Retrospective sessions often seem like an endpoint in itself. But when they’re not followed up by action, the momentum is lost, and ultimately, the effort wasted.
How to resuscitate your agile retrospectives
Here’s the scenario: you’ve finished a huge sprint. The whole team has pushed hard to get it done. Catching up to talk about the past couple of weeks — is the last thing you want to do. But don’t let this opportunity pass you by.
You either agree on creating business value, or you compete
Businesses are focused on using agile to deliver ‘valuable work’. But unless teams have a shared understanding of how value is measured – delivering real value may be missed in the process.
So what does a product owner actually do?
Does this scenario sound familiar? A new development team comes together to build the latest feature which is suddenly priority number #1. Grand visions are presented,…
Better agile ways of working for non-software development teams
The most important question to ask when adopting a new way of working is also one of the most neglected: “is the way we work still working for us?”.
Are you doing agile, or being agile?
The shift to agile ways of working is often made with specific goals and improvements in mind. Being more responsive to customer feedback, getting…
Retrospectives: a fresh look
Retrospectives are fairly common among Agile teams, but it sometimes seems that every team uses the same format:
- What worked well?
- What didn’t work so well?
- What still puzzles me?
Throughout this blog I’d like to introduce you to some different Retrospective techniques.