Organisations invest in agile processes, tools, training, and coaching, but how much are they getting back? Has product delivery improved? How much happier are users and the
What does a Product Owner do? Is it a full time job? Are they the customer? Are they the business owner of the IT system? While it’s been nearly 20 years since the role of “Product Owner” emerged from Scrum few people still understand what a “Product Owner” is and does.
Agile coaching is not for the faint hearted. Don’t get me wrong, it’s very rewarding, but sometimes it’s difficult when there is a lot of
Many people are starting to recognise that agile has a lot to offer outside software development, but where do you start? Leadership support is critical
ZXM was again recognised by APAC CIO Outlook as one of thw Top 10 Agile Solution Providers for the second year in a row. Revitalising
What does strategic planning in agile look like? Do we need to fully understand and agree on a strategy before we proceed to deliver new
Insights Success magazine recently release its Sept issue featuring the 10 Most innovative Agile Solution providers. Very excited that ZXM was named as one of
The State of Agile Report (Version One) consistently shows that the reason why most agile projects fail, is lack of experience. Knowledge will only get
How do you deliver a big policy outcome that normally takes 6 months when you only have weeks? Use Kanban WITH Scrum!
Teams were bored with their Retrospectives. I was bored. They were just doing mechanical Scrum. Retrospectives are such a powerful tool to drive continuous improvement, so here’s what we did to fix the problem.
The Agile Manifesto highlights that “the best architectures, requirements and designs emerge from self-organising teams”. Scrum also reinforces that the Development Team (the people developing
Agile Teams tend to use relative estimation rather than creating tasks, estimating hours, and then adding up all the hours. Adding up hours it fundamentally
How should we size Stories? Not by hours but through looking at new work relative to the size we gave to old work.
Sizing in Story Points represents a significant shift from estimating in hours. Understanding cycle time is key to getting it right.
Recently CV Magazine profiled the creative coaching team before speaking to Mia Horrigan to find out more about the company and its extensive achievements after
In this presentation, ZXM’s Partner for Agile Enterprise Transformation, Matthew Hodgson, looks at psychological safety through the lens of a psychological, research-based approach to creating
ZXM was excited to be named in the top 10 for Agile Solution Companies 2017 by APAC CIO Outlook Magazine Executive Coaching for Business Agility
What makes one team Scrumdiddlyumptious whilst another the Killjoys? At LAST Conference this week, I discussed a tale of two new agile teams within the
So, what actually is a Spike? Where does the term come from and should all agile teams use them?
There is no Spotify agile model. But lots of people from Spotify keep talking about how their system of people and processes operates. It all
Zen Ex Machina has been helping people and organisations to be agile. Digital transformation isn’t a one-size-fits-all. It requires an understanding of context, customers and
Really excited that Insights Success named Zen Ex Machina as one of their top 30 innovative companies to watch in 2017. Zen Ex Machina: Simplifying
What’s an easy way to run a Backlog Refinement session so that assumptions, risks, ideas and draft designs are identified? Yin and Yang is one of our favourite patterns.
They sound similar, and are often conflated, but what are key differences and reasons why you might want to work collaboratively instead of just cooperatively?
The Product Owner is a role in many Agile Frameworks. They are responsible for optimising the delivery of products and maximising the value of the work of the Team. But what does a Product Owner do?
The Scrum Master is a role in Scrum – an Agile Framework for optimising the delivery of products. In most organisations, when someone is given
How do you unclutter the dogma surrounding Scrum’s 20 year history? Can you find its powerful Lean, user-centred powerhouse for collaborative improvement? Some people throw away
Asimov’s Laws of Robotics help man and machine get along. So, where are the laws that stop teams from hurting themselves either by action or
We are excited to announce that we have been named by the Silicon Review as one of the 50 smartest companies for 2016. Its been
As part of the IIBA stream at the recent Australian Computer Society Conference #ACSCanCon16, I explored agile product ownership and the role of a business
We get the best feedback from working software over documentation, says Alistair Cockburn when commenting recently on the Agile Manifesto. View on Prezi:Â http://prezi.com/x3dgayc1zbpa/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share And while
Is your team dysfunctional? Is their behaviour likely headed down a path that will destroy their productivity and collaboration? If they are, what are the
There are quite a few ideas circulating about what makes a good agile coach. Should they be a senior developer with excellent coding prowess? Do they need technical skills? Should they be something more? ZXM’s model is founded in contingency-based leadership and reinforces the need to take a product agnostic view, a non-software perspective, on how to support agile teams.
As an Agile Coach and Chief Scrum Master responsible for 8 teams in a service delivery program, when things went wrong, I found it really
When making the decision to adopt an agile method like Scrum, invariably the question about existing roles arises. In particular, I find that the question
“But isn’t that just doing mini-waterfalls?”, asked a recent attendee at one of our Agile Essentials courses. Scrum requires the team do all the same
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