The team that learns together stays together
March 3, 2016I prefer to build long-lived teams where the same people stay together over an extended period of time. I believe in the immutable team: > Teams are immutable....
Continue Reading →Culture gardening
February 15, 2016"Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats." That's the advice from Jim Collins in his 2002 book...
Continue Reading →Why all the Jira hate? I'll tell you why
December 21, 2015I've recently retweeted a few tweets which weren't exactly complimentary about Jira. For example: > Plenty of good things happened at work today. And then I...
Continue Reading →Fire Marshal Fridays and Technical Debt
July 20, 2015One of the teams that I'm working with came up with a great way of managing their technical debt backlog. The developers are split across five or six...
Continue Reading →Happy World No Resources Day
April 30, 2015Here's the text of an email I sent to my colleagues this morning. What are you doing to celebrate World No Resources Day? > Today is World No Resources Day....
Continue Reading →The power of place at work
August 23, 2014Almost exactly five years ago I wrote a blog post about the power of the office environment which related to some of my experiences working at the REA Group...
Continue Reading →Empowering self-organising teams with self-selection
May 14, 2014We've just allowed our teams to decide what they're going to work on and who they're going to work with. It was a big step but a necessary one and I want to...
Continue Reading →Being SAFe on the train
February 9, 2014After two months, I feel that the time is right to talk a bit about SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and what it means to me and to my team. Two days after I...
Continue Reading →Agile Malaysia - 22nd August 2013
August 22, 2013We're now settling into a two-monthly rhythm for the Agile Malaysia meetups thanks to the hard work and perseverance of Jeff Au and Colin Pal. This edition was...
Continue Reading →Agile Malaysia - 29th November 2012
November 30, 2012Thursday saw the latest instalment in the Agile Malaysia journey. After an extended hiatus, we got together at the MYOB office courtesy of Jeff Au. We had a...
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