Thoughts and conversation from our nomads.

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Sandy Mamoli David Mole Sandy Mamoli David Mole

Holacracy for Humans

How we created a networked organisation 5 Key take-aways Holacracy provides radical transparency and timely decision making at the right level. Decision making by consent is awesome! The freedom, autonomy and responsibility to achieve a clear purpose enables self-organisation. Holacracy will amplif...

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Sandy Mamoli David Mole Sandy Mamoli David Mole

Personal Kanban as an Organisational Lens

One of the most useful tools when introducing Agile into an organisation is personal Kanban. It gives me unique insights into an organisation's culture and values, and helps me determine my next steps. As an Agile coach, the process of getting people into personal Kanban facilitates insights into ho...

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Sandy Mamoli David Mole Sandy Mamoli David Mole

Benchmarking performance across organisations

A problem we were facing recently was that our teams perceived their own progress as not being fast enough and were developing a sense that they were not performing well. Sometimes it is useful to know how productive we are as an organisation and how our teams compare to teams in other companies. A...

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Sandy Mamoli David Mole Sandy Mamoli David Mole

Deep tissue massage retrospective

Even with high performing teams sometimes there are common themes coming up again and again in each retrospective. Much like a tight spot in a muscle that keeps lingering around (until we get a good massage) those issues keep coming back until we pay them enough attention to make them disappear. Use...

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Sandy Mamoli David Mole Sandy Mamoli David Mole

How we measure output and productivity

... getting more stuff done At Trade Me we want to measure the overall health of Tech (that’s our team of 125 designers, developers, testers, BAs, and Squad Masters) to identify trends and to know if we are getting better (or worse!). We know that when we measure something it is a strong way of sayi...

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Mike Lowery David Mole Mike Lowery David Mole

Even done is never done

A “done” definition in an Agile project is a statement that the team use to measure whether they’ve met all of the requirements for completing a userstory / feature (and in some cases completing an iteration or release). Done is one of the major shifts from doing Agile to being Agile. So, what is “d...

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