All designs by Kit Friend, except for Henrik Kniberg’s skateboard image and others where stated (sources provided below). Henrik Kniberg’s much loved skateboard-into-car visual analogy is hugely popular, and in the various forums he’s presented it in comes with all the fantastic explanation and narrative you’d expect from the…

Atlassian returned to Vegas with a bang (and ended with a bash) this year for their first in person summit since the pandemic — with thousands in attendance and swagged up to the nines, here’s our top picks of the hot news and trends from the show…

My best friend Matt got into the world of virtual cycling early on in the pandemic — and would regularly regale our slightly bemused friendship group with tales of sweating for hours in his shed without going anywhere. As a keen outdoor cyclist I wasn’t entirely convinced this was going…

Effective preparation to avoid ‘ticket tennis’ In many Scrum and agile training materials, the Definition of Done (“DoD”) gets great coverage (it’s even mandated in the Scrum Guide) but all too often I’ll hear from teams where they are stuck in a cycle of ‘ticket tennis’ where poorly formed tickets are missing key details, agreement, dependencies……

Over the last decade we have been involved in agile transformations varying from the “small and beautiful” to those claiming to be the…

Whether literally writing a contract for providing services, or creating a (perhaps unwritten) agreement between areas of a business, I’ve seen a recent trend in advice being sought from how successfully contract to support agile teams. Here’s some common patterns from what I’ve heard, learnt, and advised so far! 1. The data says you’re de-risking Whoever…

One of my beloved Accenture Agile Geeks community, Leonardo Fraga, recently asked an excellent question: I know it is a kind of heresy, but do you know any fresh points of view on how to accommodate traditional (waterfall) delivery and agile during the transition of models? …

I’m a huge fan of the Herculean Donut game after being introduced to it by a fellow agilist some years ago whilst working at the BBC: https://www.tastycupcakes.org/2013/02/the-herculean-doughnut/ Though I’ve yet to manage to prioritise co-ordinating synchronised snack delivery to coincide with running the game virtually, it continues to be a great to prompt discussions amongst teams on where different activity flavours can find their home within a Scrum team.