When making the decision to adopt an agile method like Scrum, invariably the question about existing roles arises. In particular,
“But isn’t that just doing mini-waterfalls?”, asked a recent attendee at one of our Agile Essentials courses. Scrum requires the
We were really excited and humbled to be named in CIO Outlook’s top 25 Agile Solution providers in APAC 2016. CIO
In my previous post on Business Analysts as Specilaist Team members within a Scrum team noted, individual team members may
Whilst individuals within a Scrum development team may have specialist skills and areas of focus, accountability to deliver the Sprint
Whilst Scrum Teams are self-organising and empowered, at scale, the Master Scrum Master (i.e. Chief Scrum Master) provides coordination and alignment to
I’ve been working with a number of government agencies as they look to Agile methodologies to help them implement their digital
When scaling agile at an enterprise level, coordination and alignment across multiple teams is challenging. Whilst Agile teams are self-organising
Who should be your (Scrum) Product Owner? I’ve had a number of these conversations recently with small, boutique software development
The team I was working with had a “great problem” – more work than we could deliver. However this success
This presentation given at LAST 2014 (Melbourne, Australia) and Agile 2014 (Orlando, USA) outlines ZXM’s behavioural approach to changing culture to
We tend to think about agile as a software development approach, but it has applications to the business as it
Lean Coffee is an structured but agenda less meeting that allows participants to gather, build and talk. It’s a great way to run Retrospectives by crowd-sourcing what the team really want to talk about.
Presentation at the Australian Computer Society 2013, Canberra Australia. In a modern world of agile processes and self-managing teams, what
What does it take to produce results when using Scrum in a highly regulated, hierarchical, and often risk-averse culture like a government organisation? Here’s ZXMs top 5 tips.
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PRINCE2 has been the gold standard for project management certification for over a decade. It’s commonly a prerequisite for project managers and is recognised as being essential for keeping projects “in control”, but does this make project management incompatible with Scrum? How do you put the two together?
On one of my recent projects, we were asked to deliver a new Information Architecture for a government website that
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Often, when we find out that we don’t know something that may be important to know, it motivates us to
So you’ve just finished usability testing in your Sprint and have a pile of changes for your agile team to implement. How do you break down the UX changes that are needed to make a product useful, usable and accessible, into smaller, bite-sized User Stories?
Traditionally, all testing, including assessing how easy real users can use your software, occurs in the very last phase of
It seems like agile training courses are sprouting up everywhere here in Australia. I seem to even be getting emails
The UX Pin have produced a great infographic in an attempt to describe the differences between Lean UX and Agile
How much documentation is enough for an agile project? Scrum doesn’t explicitly state what requirements are necessary to document during a Sprint
It usually happens this way. Adoption of agile methods begins with developers. This is because, according to the Agile Manifesto,
Australians are now the largest users of smartphones in the world[1] with reports suggesting that up to 86% own a
This is looking to be a big year for Zen Ex Machina on the conference front. We’re hoping to return
I had the pleasure of returning to a Team I had been doing Scrum coaching with earlier in the year
With one of our offices in Canberra — the seat of the Federal Government in Australia — I’ve been hearing
I’ve noticed a lot of people doing some sort of agile training. I’m very heartened by this move. Even designers
How effective are your UX deliverables? Many of us produce amazingly beautiful, nuanced and comprehensive UX deliverables: Personas Storyboards Content
I recently presented at the LAST (Lean, Agile, Systems, Thinking) Conference in Melbourne about a project where I was asked
ZXM had been working on a project with a client using Scrum to help them set up an Intranet redevelopment
Many programs, projects and enterprises are starting to consider transforming to agile ways of working. Some start with just stand-ups.
Many UX practitioners own their own TARDIS – it’s the pattern many of us have adopted so designers can work with
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