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An education in Agile
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin In the age of social media and fast-paced innovation and disruption, it pays to invest in education and knowledge growth. This is especially prevalent in the tech sector, where innovation is the...
The Product Designer’s practice
In this guest post, Chris Thelwell discusses how Envato structures UX and product design practice. He explains the different roles within Envato’s design team, and how they collaborate to solve users’ business problems and needs. Read Chris’s earlier article on...
From Agile to Systems Thinking: Lessons on Company Culture
CEO of Tomorrow Labs and AgileAus 2017 invited speaker, Sami Honkonen, shares the story of how he came to learn the importance of system conditions for company culture.)One day in 2010, I realised I was fed up with Agile. I was at the US Agile Conference and for the...
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...
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