What is an Agile Coach?
There are a lot of misconceptions about what an Agile Coach is or isn’t at the moment. Are they the Scrum Master of a team? Does their role include coaching the team or is is something more?
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Top 5 insights to turn strategic initiatives into action
Matthew Hodgson, CEO of Zen Ex Machina, presented at Gartner Symposium ITXpo on his 5 insights into getting twice as much in half the time in a way that addresses leadership, cultural change and operating models.
Couples Counselling for Scrum Teams – Global Scrum Gathering Austin 2019
In this talk, ZXM CEO Matthew Hodgson, presents to the Global Scrum Gathering in Austin on patterns from Gottman and social psychology research to help
Agile Leadership
What does it take to be an agile leader? 21st century leaders face a raft of challenges: technological change, disruptive forces in industry after industry, and global competition. What does leadership look like in a VUCA, highly disruptive world?
Isn’t Agile really just a series of small experiments to build experience and learning
The State of Agile Report (Version One) consistently shows that the reason why most agile projects fail,ย is lack of experience. Knowledge will only get
Accelerate Through Retrospectives
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.
Zen Ex Machina recognised as one of the top 30 Innovative Companies to watch in 2017
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
The 8 Elements of Agile Coaching
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.
Scrum Coaching in Canberra — Top 5 tips for using Scrum in Government
What does it take to produce results when using Scrum in a highly regulated,ย hierarchical,ย and often risk-averse culture like a government organisation? Here’s ZXMs top 5 tips.
Why Training Courses are killing your chance to be Agile
It seems like agile training courses are sprouting up everywhere here in Australia. I seem to even be getting emails from places I don’t even
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