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…
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…
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,…
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…
LawMaster gets an Agile boost from Elabor8
What do you do if you feel like your agile development practices are becoming stagnant? You seek external council. Find out how LawMaster mastered their development process.
Enabling business agility through organisational plasticity
We are living in a new economic and societal model characterised by fast-changing consumer demand and perpetual connectivity. In this model, businesses have to create highly individualised…
Embedding a lean startup approach to help launch a startup
The major challenge irexchange faced being a startup centred on how to bring their idea to market in an efficient and meaningful way – while also testing the key business hypothesis.