One of the first few comments to my partner after I touched down back into Brisbane last night was ‘Gosh I’m buggered. It’s been such a long week!’ He smirked at me and shyly commented ‘Monday was a public holiday. And you still have to work tomorrow.’ Was it really just two days? It felt …
I had the lovely pleasure tonight to see Jean Tabaka in action at the Brisbane YOW night. Topic in reflection: 12 Agile Adoption Failure Modes. My interest was immediately peaked when the opening question was “Ask the four or five people around you what are some of the key causes for an Agile Implementation to …
Over ten years ago I vividly remember the first moment I saw ‘Safe to fail.’ I was working for a large scale telecommunications organisation. Most of us working there were pretty young. With our youth came inexperience. I learnt that through a project re-assignment I was going to have a new manager and was anxious of …
red tape — n obstructive official routine or procedure; time-consuming bureaucracy There are many corporate techniques out there that seek an approach to innovation by removing internal blockages and challenging existing paradigms. In Agile this is no different. Techniques within Kanban deal with removing blockages by visualising the blockers and limiting work in progress to force a …
Agile Forest 