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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...
Understanding and developing growth mindsets to achieve greatness
Earlier this month some of the most highly-rated Agile Australia workshops returned for Agile Encore in Sydney. Today’s guest blogger, Isabel Nyo, participated in ‘How to lead by enabling growth mindsets‘, a full day workshop led by UNSW Associate Professor Peter...
Best books of AgileAus 2016
At this year’s AgileAus Conference, we asked over 1200 attendees for their favourite, most inspiring books on Agile. And this is what they told us. These are the titles that came up again and again as the most helpful for learning about Agile: Follow the links below...
Physical vs Digital Kanban Walls: Making the Most of Both
Ben Hogan was one of Agile Australia 2016’s highly-rated speakers and workshop leaders. He reprises both his presentation and his workshop next week at Agile Encore 2016 in Sydney. Today, Ben discusses how to make the most of physical and digital Kanban walls, in this...
Manifesto! A poem by Richard Weissel
Agile Encore 2016 speaker – and poet – Richard Weissel has penned a poetic tribute to the Agile Manifesto. “Help!” They cried, “We’re drowning. We’re stuck in a waterfall!” “Do not fear, I’ll save you”, came the saviour’s mighty call. He donned his cape, he donned his...
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