Category: Agile
re-employing agile – event recording, audio, slide deck and transcript
On Friday, 8 October 2021 I gave an online talk for the Access Agile Freestival on my experiences with “re-employing” agile – how agile can be embraced by non-software development teams. This page contains a video recording of the talk plus other resources including an audio-only version of the talk together with the slides I presented and a transcript of my speaker notes.
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Re-employing agile – embracing agility outside traditional software development
Register for this free online talk on re-employing agile – embracing agility outside traditional software development – Friday 8 October 2021, 14:00 AEST.
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Looking for IT delivery leadership work
Scrum Master / Iteration Manager / Agile Coach / Delivery Lead – looking for a new role due to COVID-19 cutbacks.
Deep expertise in delivery leadership with lean-agile frameworks, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban and waterfall. Experienced agile coach, program architect and former principal management consultant. Key attributes around organising and structuring, ensuring business value is delivered through enabling and managing application and web development, consulting, infrastructure and architecture teams with multiple sourcing models. Broad and deep technical background. Able to rapidly identify and implement what needs to be done to achieve success for you, your organisation and your customers.
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Agile – building a high performing team
Building a high performing team starts with careful observation, dedication and commitment.
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Agile – how to document a "proper" handover
How you leave tells you something about a person, about their passion and about what’s important to them. It can be a simple act like pushing your chair in after a meeting, pushing all the chairs in, cleaning the whiteboards even if you didn’t use them, leaving something in a better state than you found it. Below is the text of my handover notes published on Confluence ten days before our team was disbanded…
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Why Agile and why change?
Why Agile is so appealing, why we need to change and why change is so threatening.
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Saying goodbye: the hardest
Saying “goodbye” to an awesome team is so very, very hard. What have we learned? I’ll warrant more about ourselves through each other than we’d have learned alone. Two quotes have been swimming in my mind tonight, one from the Bard and one from a seminal film.
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Self-Organizing Agile Teams Don’t Just Happen by Chance – Mountain Goat Software
Self-Organizing Agile Teams Don’t Just Happen by Chance – Mountain Goat Software ...
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