Agile

"It's 2017, WTF are you …

Why would anyone go to an agile conference in 2017? As someone involved in organising an agile conference or two, that may seem like a pretty …

LAST Conference is coming …

LAST Conference has been running in Melbourne for five years and this year, for the first time, it’s coming to Sydney too. LAST is a …

The team that learns …

I 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 …

Culture gardening

Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right seats.

“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 …

Agile Australia 2016 - …

The advisors and chairs of Agile Australia 2016 conference themed Towards the Agile Country are looking for real stories of how products are developed …

Why all the Jira hate? …

I’ve recently retweeted a few tweets which weren’t exactly complimentary about Jira. For example:

Plenty of good things happened at work …

Fire Marshal Fridays and …

One 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 …

Happy World No Resources …

Here’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 …

The power of place at …

Almost 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 …