Attending the Melbourne Lean Coffee meet up a couple of weeks ago I picked up a little coaching gem from an attendee that I’m keen to try out, despite it hinging on a sporting metaphor for work, which I’m usually strongly

I’ve worked in digital delivery teams where we were obsessing about “the customer”. We talked about the customer needs, ensuring we were thinking about their experiences and then built features we thought they would love.

Waaay back, in May 2013, I went to a ThoughtWorks live event ‘Thriving in a fragmented future', where CEO of pizza giant Dominos – Don Meij, shared some pearls of wisdom from the Dominos mobile app successes

Something I’ve observed recently amongst this agile/lean/start up/digitally disrupted community that I’m in, is there are a lot of ‘SAFe haters’ dissing on SAFe out there.

My excellent colleague Glenn and I were exchanging some jokey emails earlier in the year about team happiness. We had asked our teams (we both have several agile teams) to collect their own rating of team happiness on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the most happy you could be - at their team retrospectives every iteration.

At the 2015 Agile Australia pre-conference speaker’s dinner I was seated next to invited speaker Dean Leffingwell (pictured here on the left) founder of the Scaled Agile Framework: ‘SAFe', a process framework invented to help

I’ve never blogged on the topic of equality for women, in IT or otherwise, however as I watch my daughter grow up and wonder what her working life will be like, and see the industry I joined mature, as I mature, I realise I do have quite a lot of opinions on

The results of our 2 week experiment into the Gamification of the school holidays for the kids are in.

Inspired by James Ross’s LAST conference talk on The Shamification of Lamification and the Reclaimification of Gamification I was motivated to try and “Gamify” the school holidays for my three children, Leo aged 8, Chloe 9 and Max 10.