February 2022
Insights to help you transform ways of working so people love their jobs!
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The first newsletter for 2022! With a feature article on Managing & Measuring Your Transformation Success, an alternative to story points, the blurring of roles on product teams, the case against prioritisation frameworks, a toolkit for creating team psychological safety, how cis-white-men can be allies to marginalised groups, the dangers of measuring individual performance on teams…. and more!
REBOOT CO. NEWS…
TAPPING INTO THE EXPERTISE OF OUR TEAM
TRANSFORMING WAYS OF WORKING
Managing & Measuring Your Transformation Success!
by Alex Stokes
"Being the most Agile" is not a good metric to measure your Agile Transformation with, and can distract you from your companies core purpose. Here we outline the steps that provide a good basis for "Ways of Working" or "Agile" Transformation that can be applied to all big improvement and change programs that carry the label "Transformation".
by Gareth Lees-West
Uncovering Better Ways - Not Just Story Points
"Uncovering better ways" from the agile manifesto, doesn't mean everyone do the same thing the same way. De-facto practices can create blindness to better ways of working contextual to your team and organisation.
by Alex Stokes
No Nonsense Agile Podcast: Digital Transformations
Murray Robinson and Shane Gibson in a conversation with Alex Stokes asking all the big questions on Agile Transformation - who’s doing them, why, what’s working and what isn’t working.
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REBOOT CO. SELECTS…
IDEAS, NEWS, TIPS & TRICKS FROM OUR COMMUNITY & BEYOND
‘Product vs Design vs Tech’: A Partnership, Not a Battlefield
The best product teams look at the full end-to-end product development process - or value stream, and optimise for that by blurring the lines between roles.
The Case for Why You Should Avoid Prioritisation Frameworks
Prioritise based on objectives and strategy based on customer feedback around what’s important, what isn’t and why - not spreadsheets and formulas.
A Toolkit That Can Be Used to Create & Support a Psychologically Safe Environment for Your Team.
Because organisations that thrive set high standards around cultures of continuous learning and improvement, that is, a safe place to express ideas, to challenge the status quo, experiment and learn.
“I’m a Straight, White, Cis-Gendered Man in Tech. How Can I Be a Good Ally to Underrepresented Groups?”
How to demonstrate support for underrepresented groups, and what actions an ally could take to improve their community for members of such groups.
The Dangers of Measuring Individual Performance
For organisations with a product and customer focus it’s likely the most valuable activities are collaborative and creative work achieved by groups operating in concert - not by individuals.
AND ANOTHER THING…
A (not-so!) fun interactive mockup designed to highlight the poor UX in how we interact with the web today - and why we often end up forgetting why we are on a particular site in the first place!
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How Peter Jackson used A.I to strip out the guitars and uncover the Beatles hidden studio conversations on Get Back
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IS IT TIME FOR AN ORGANISATIONAL HEALTH CHECK?
We’ve consolidated everything you need to consider into a convenient Poster!
For the latest of Who & What in the Agile community, locally, and worldwide, as well as some tips, tricks and thoughts on how to improve the way you work, visit our website for our Blogs and Podcasts. And ICYMI, all of our Newsletters are there too.
About ReBoot Co.
ReBoot Co was founded in 2017 and is an org transformation partner that helps you and your teams discover a better way of working. Here’s how we can help:
DELIVER LASTING TRANSFORMATION The ability for you and your teams to continuously adapt to unexpected challenges.
ASSESS & DIAGNOSE Access the best thinking in transformation and value delivery from experts.
TRAINING PLUS Invest in your #1 asset - people. Uplift their skills and capability. Lift engagement and delivery.
DELIVERY BOOST Our experienced practitioners will boost your practices while delivering your product.
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