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We Need to Stop Being Short Sighted and Start Hiring Junior Software Engineers Now
This is a guest post by Adel Smee, the Engineering Team Lead at Zendesk, a customer relationship software company based in San Francisco.Last year as I was working on a conference talk, I came across this labour market research conducted by the Australian Department...
The Journey of Design to Agile
This article was written by Chris Thelwell and was first published in UX Magazine on 13 July 2016.Design is historically a waterfall process. The change to an agile workflow is usually driven by the engineering team, or by the demands of the organisation to deliver...
Hacking Away To Shape Organisational Culture
Brett Wakeman takes it back to when Carsales gave their developers freedom with the company’s first idea hackathon. We’re taking it back this week to when Carsales gave their developers freedom with the company’s first idea hackathon. The results meant the developers...
Knowledge breadth vs depth
Discover a model for career-long learning with Neal Ford, a Software Architect at ThoughtWorks and a speaker at Agile Australia 2017. This article is based on architect Mark Richards’ Knowledge Pyramid. Ford and Richards are co-presenters in the Software Architecture...
What Nobody Tells You About Leadership
With AgileAus17 centred around the concepts of learning and leading, Melinda Harrington explains what nobody tells you about leadership. Almost everyone who takes this quiz misses the first question. Here it is: According to a post on the Scrum Alliance website,...
Does your company suffer from Gratitude Deficit Disorder?
In this article, Melbourne University Professor of Positive Psychology, Dr Lea Waters, shows us how gratitude can play a surprisingly significant role in workplace culture.When was the last time someone thanked you at work? Does your company have an employee...
Do you have a lightning talk inside of you?
Katrina Kolt explains how to tell a great story in just five minutes!At last year’s TEDX Melbourne, I inadvertently found myself up on stage. I say inadvertently, because when the MC asked the crowd who had a Ted talk inside of them, my hand raised itself. Then my...
What is Good Product Strategy?
Hear from AgileAus 2017 speaker Melissa Perri on building good product strategy.“What is your Product Strategy? YOU NEED A STRATEGY.” When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. He was on edge....
Esther Derby on Creating Great Teams
Agile legend Esther Derby explores how managers can form teams that people actually want to be a part of!)As a consultant and expert in organisational dynamics, I’ve worked with scores of organisations, and over the course of four decades, I’ve observed hundreds of...
Lean PMO: Managing the Innovation Portfolio
AgileAus17 speaker Barry O’Reilly takes us through the four main domains of Lean enterprises: explore, exploit, sustain and retire.One of the first exercises I run with executive teams is mapping their business portfolio to visualize current work in progress and how...
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