With overwhelming evidence that gender diversity and inclusion are better for business, the female to male diversity pie chart has become an expected element in the recruitment and reporting process. But gender diversity is more than a pie chart.
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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.
Five ways to build a collaborative culture in your organisation
We need collaboration to innovate. The sharing of ideas leads to more new ideas forming. The question is, how do you move from just talking about it, to taking action that gets results?
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.
Leading and living a ‘human-first’ culture
Human-first cultures are more than just about meeting a sense of job satisfaction and offering flexibility between work and personal life.
What your business can learn from the Spotify model
Many organisations aspire to become the next disruptor in their market – and following its public listing on the New York Stock Exchange earlier this year, Swedish music streaming giant Spotify is still trending as a shining example. A large part of Spotify’s success can be attributed to its business operating model, which is based on the Agile Scrum framework. While the company…
Agile is the answer to transformation: but that won’t mean transformation will be simple
Agile comes with big expectations. Let’s look at why we shouldn’t expect transformation to be less complex, simply because we choose to be agile.
Balancing risk and opportunity at MLC Life Insurance
MLC Life Insurance knows a thing or two about the need for a slow, measured approach, which makes the introduction of agile ways of working into its business intelligence division even more remarkable.
Amazon’s shift from presentation culture to memo culture
When you look for innovators in the modern business world, you look to Amazon. The company has made innovation its goal in everything that it does. They have to be because they need to stay ahead of customer demands. As Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos puts it: “Our customers are loyal to us right up until the second somebody offers them…
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, slick prototypes produced, and graphs showing hockey-stick shaped growth begin to build excitement around what is to be delivered. The nicely ordered backlog is transferred from post-it notes to JIRA, and with a wave of enthusiasm…
What are the 9 factors of a great agile organisation?
Most agile practitioners and coaches will refrain from providing advice on what the perfect agile organisation looks like, because we acknowledge that every situation is different and every organisation needs a way of working that suits their people and the environment they find themselves in. However, I believe that as we’ve learned more about agile ways of working and the…