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Articles
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Personal Kanban as a Coaching Tool for Product Owners and Others
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Personal Kanban at Agile 2012
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Agile Project Inception with a Press Release
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It's a game of two halves
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Organisational Change with Mikado
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Should this Project be Agile?
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Taking Personal Kanban to the World
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Knowing when to call it quits
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Passion as a Priority
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Should we choose Iterative or Agile?
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Interview with a developer turned Agile
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Interview with a newly-minted Scrum Master
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Flexing your Agile muscle - agile technical practices explained
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Utilisation, Teams and "Resources"
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When the coach needs to go
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Checklists
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A template for the sprint review
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Visual Workspaces: Kanban for one
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A Scrum Product Owner checklist
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Why being a Scrum Master is a full time job
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A 5-why root cause analysis retrospective
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10 ways to fail with Agile
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Agile undercover - when customers don't collaborate
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Acceptance Criteria and the Definition of Done
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Release sprints
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On Acceptance criteria for user stories
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How story points work
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When the red bus hits: Agile when things go wrong
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When not to run Agile
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How to pick a Scrum team
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Design chunking in Scrum
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Splitting a User Story along Acceptance Criteria
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Kanban is not for the Idle or Newbies
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Even done is never done
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The document dilemma
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Visible workspaces – a house of cards or something far more solid?
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The Wall of Pain
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Exploring servant leadership
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The non challenging Scrum Master
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It might look like rapids, but it's still a waterfall
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Evolving the Story map
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Chart your happiness
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It's all about demand
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Nomad8 highlights of 2012
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Coaching is the new black
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Personal Kanban at work
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Sprint planning - turning the what into how
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Could a "Definition of Ready" Help You Strike a Balance?
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Making Agile work for the client
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Agile Australia 2013
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Team ground rules and working agreements
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9 Agile steps that injected magic into our project.
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Risk registers and meetings are boring - try a project premortem instead ...
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Every day should be Fedex day!
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Daily stand-up with a goal
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Sometimes average is good.
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Postcards (from the edge)
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Self-Selection: The Self-Organising organisation
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Stand by your values!
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Large Scale Self-Selection - the Trade Me Case Study
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Spotify's Scaling Agile with Tribes, Squads, Chapters & Guilds at a Glance
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Quick Guide to Self-Selection
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How we measure output and productivity
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Are your votes going to waste?
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How We Kick-Off New Squads
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Why I want to be an AWESOME public speaker
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Juvenile agile maturity models
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What do Scrum Masters and Product Owners do?
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Video: Portfolio Kanban - Seeing the Bigger Picture
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Profiling what motivates a team
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Deep tissue massage retrospective
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Case Study: Australia Post
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How to Run a Sprint Planning Meeting (the Way I Like It)
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How to Measure Work Happiness
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The Rathole Facilitation Technique
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Case Study: MYOB
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Benchmarking performance across organisations
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Finding it hard to visualise improvement ideas?… Try idea balloons!
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Key Questions Retrospective Technique
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Yay, we published a book!
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Happy New Year from Nomad8
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The importance of size and proximity
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Squadify with Self-Selecting Teams
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Personal Kanban as an Organisational Lens
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Impact Mapping team objectives
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Case Study: Trade Me Property
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Just Another F&#k!ng Agile Conference - We did it!
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Case Study: Fairfax Media
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Case Study: Xero
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Self-selection on a Page
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Video: Self-Selection at Agile Australia 2016
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Everyone needs Kanbanfor1
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Agile2016: Self-Selection, paradigm shifts and the Agile Alliance of NZ
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Is Talking to Users Enough?
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Time for a Change in Principles?
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Giving teams the best start
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Multitooling: Kanbanfor1 with other productivity techniques
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Breaking Bad: The cult of not giving bad news
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What to Do when Organisational Impediments are Slowing you Down?
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Helping Teams Deal with Conflict
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Just Another F’ing Agile Conference
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Role Expectation Mapping Canvas
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#JAFAC 2017 - impressions of an organiser
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Agile Principles cards
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Dual-track development
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Modern Agile Principles
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How to Avoid Waste - a Lean Retrospective
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How to Use a Meme to Increase Collaboration and Understanding
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Holacracy for Humans
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An Opportunity Canvas story
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Making Product Development habitual
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Just Another F&#king Agile Conference - #JAFAC2018
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GROW your planning
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Creating Working Agreements that are actually useful
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Search
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Air New Zealand
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Weta Digital
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Spark
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TradeMe
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ASB
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Xero
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Choice
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NZ On Air
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Snapper
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Parts Trader
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Timely
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TVNZ
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Trust Power
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New Zealand Post
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BNZ
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PHD
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SilverStripe
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Shine
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Genesis Energy
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Qrious
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Southern Cross
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Callaghan Innovation
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Powershop
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Gentrack
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The Warehouse
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ACC
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Training
Give your teams the best start with Agile Foundations, Team Facilitation and Product Management training courses. Agile-based or tailored to suit your ways of working, get the best tools and practices embedded in your teams. Nomad8 training courses are renown for being engaging, interactive and fun, as well as packed full of Agile goodness across all levels. From Agile Foundations to Team Facilitation, Product Ownership to Agile for Execs; all our training courses are run in-house and we can schedule them on demand anywhere in New Zealand. -
Agile Foundations
Explore the big ideas at the heart of Agile, learn how to manage work efficiently as part of an Agile team and walk away with an ICAgile Professional Certification. -
Agile Team Facilitation
We’ll introduce you to a wide variety of facilitation and coaching techniques – and help you become a superior Agile Team Facilitator. Team Facilitator is the ICAgile’s version of the Scrum Master Certification. -
Leadership in an Agile Context
When you use Agile principles to manage your team, you’re on your way to becoming a great people leader. Practical and relevant to anyone transforming their organization with Agile, or looking to enhance their skills in leadership. -
Creating Great Teams
Design more efficient Agile teams in a quick, safe way following a proven process. You’ll work with the people who literally wrote the book on Self- Selection: Us. -
Self-Selection
Here’s a radical idea: Trust people to know best and let them decide which team they should work in. Let them self-select! Known as Self-Selection, Squadification, or Self-Selecting Teams - this is an effective way of creating great teams. From the people who literally wrote the book on it, here you will find a wealth of resources to guide you through the process. -
About Us
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Case Study: LIC
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Coaching
We work with your teams, leaders, managers or exec to help lift performance, hone practices, embed and support ways of working, and to understand and deliver business value. We start by creating a coaching plan specific to you - that fits the needs or problem spaces you're facing. We work one-on-one or with teams. Our coaches are your guides, helping to avoid pitfalls and focus on outcomes for your business. Whether it's Agile or things are just plain not quite right - our coaches are the best in the business. -
The Agile Bandwagon
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Facilitation Canvas
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Challenging Team Agility using White Elephant Principles
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Subscribed
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Case Studies and Articles
Read Self-selection stories, watch presentations, listen to podcasts and download our useful pocket guide here. -
Case Study: The Iconic
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The Holacracy Trilogy: My Conclusion
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Agile Amped Podcast: Holacracy - A Complete System for Self-Organization
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The Holacracy Trilogy: Things that were great
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The Holacracy Trilogy: Things We Struggled with
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The Dark Side of Agile Coaching - are Agile Coaches doing harm?
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Agile FM - Radio for the Agile Community
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Lessons Learned from 100+ Retrospectives
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Mercedes Benz
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Chorus
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Powerco
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Contact Energy
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Enable NZ
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NZ Racing Board
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1 2 3 Purpose
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Registered
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Driving Business Agility with Self-Selection
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Top takeouts from Business Agility Vienna
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The Human Aspect - Holacracy’s Missing Piece?
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Video: How I Tried Holacracy and Lived to Tell the Tale
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Charlotte Walshe
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Vanessa Oakley
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James Magill
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Bron Thomson
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Hiria Te Rangi
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Sonya Williams
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Nigel Dalton
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Sandy Davey
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How committed are you...really ?
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Inspired Introspection
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Business is Boring Podcast
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Business Agility Vienna: Sandy's Talk on Self-Selection (video)
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Nomad8 News May 2019
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Self-care at Agile2019
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Olympic Tips to Be the Best You Can Be
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Agile2019: The Curious case of You
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Agile 2019: You as the Facilitator, pair and prepare your way to successful outcomes
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Sam Laing
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Ruth Brown
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Dynamic Teaming with Self-Selection
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The lowdown on JAFAC 2019
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Kanban Systems Design
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A personal story with an agile thread
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Design Sprint Dinner
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Growth Maps
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Making Work Visible - Exposing time theft!
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Agile Product Ownership
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Product Ownership
As a product manager or product owner your teams need to be working on the right things. Learn how to understand your user's motivations, validate your ideas, prioritise your work, and create the best context for product delivery. -
Check yourself listening
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Saying farewell to a team member
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Learning to love feedback
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Palmerston North City Council
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Online Republic
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Orion Health
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Southern Cross Hospitals
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A1
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Meridian
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St John
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Asure Quality
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Kanban Management Professional
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Individual performance is not relevant
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Case Study: Self-Selection with Distributed Teams
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Book A Speaker
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Free Stuff
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The Farewell Canvas
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Natalie Barker Quote
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Retro Facilitation Canvas
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Liftoff cards
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Principle cards
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Gold Medal Me Canvas
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Timely advice - remote working from the trenches
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Self-Selection Pocket Guide
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Self-Selection on a Page
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Sandy Mamoli
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Tony O'Halloran
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AgileBI Podcast
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The "new" new ways of working are not normal
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Coaching
We work alongside you and your teams - at your premises for minimum disruption or remotely for distributed groups. We begin by creating a coaching plan specific to your business, be it one-on-one or working with specific groups. Our coaches are your mentors and guides, helping to avoid pitfalls and taking your Agile abilities to the next level. They are the best in the business. -
Asked to Self-Select? Here's How to Pick your Team
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What is Business Agility?
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Spamcast: A Podcast with Sandy Mamoli
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How to run a Coaching Reflection Session
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Measures and Metrics Quadrant
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Scrum 2DVille
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An updated Opportunity Canvas
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Opportunity Canvas
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Minimalist Agile
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Demystifying the Agile Team Facilitator
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Sprint Reviews are broken
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Encourage positive behaviours
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Role Expectation Mapping Canvas
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Team Performance Workshop
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Video: Should we measure team performance?
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Are you picking your team wisely?
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The Lack of Trust Problem
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5 Questions about Self-Selection
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Video: Keynote Agile Tour Montreal
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How I Tried Holacracy and Lived to Tell the Tale (Agile Alliance Whitepaper)
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Portfolio Kanban (Agile Alliance whitepaper)
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What surfing taught me about progress and change
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Leading Responsible Adults
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How to explain your ways of working to a new team member and teach them agile along the way (MOB-teaching)
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Self-Selection: The ultimate booster of autonomy and engagement
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An Above and Below the Line Model
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An Above and Below the Line Model (Emergence, The Journal of Business Agility Whitepaper)
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Self-Selection: The ultimate booster of autonomy and engagement (Emergence, The Journal of Business Agility Whitepaper)
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Story Mapping agile roles
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No Nonsense Agile Podcast - Building Great Teams with Sandy Mamoli
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Team Health Checks
A health check is like an assessment of your team's work processes. They help to identify what's working well, where there's room for improvement, and to see how things are really going. It's a chance to make sure everything is running smoothly - get your teams future fit and working on the important stuff. -
Team Health Checks
A health check is like an assessment of your team's work processes. They help to identify what's working well, where there's room for improvement, and to see how things are really going. It's a chance to make sure everything is running smoothly - get your teams future fit and working on the important stuff. -
Alaska Air
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Te Whatu Ora
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Digitas Affinity ID
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NZTA
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Intellihub
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MTF Finance
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Creating High Performance Teams on Remote:af
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Glorious
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Gallagher
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#JAFAC2023 was wonderful!
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Design Sprints
We understand that every organization has unique needs and challenges when it comes to developing new products or services. That's why we offer a highly flexible and customizable design sprint service that is tailored to your specific needs. -
Design Sprints
What sets us apart is our team of experienced and dedicated facilitators who will help you achieve your desired outcomes. Our facilitators work closely with your cross-functional team to help you identify user needs, create prototypes, and gather feedback to iterate on your ideas. -
Assumptions Mapping in Procurement
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The delusion of Healthy Tensions
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Sebastian, NZX, Health check
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Dave Wills - Aligning our ways for a mindset shift
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Lean Agile Procurement
Have you always imagined there's got to be a better way to handle procurement? There is! Lean Agile Procurement is a powerful framework that enables organisations to procure goods and services in a faster and collaborative way, with a focus on creating value, making good decisions and reducing waste. -
Lean Agile Procurement (LAP)
At Nomad8, we're certified providers of LAP services and have a great track record of helping organisations successfully implement this framework. We believe that the procurement process should be fair to vendors and suppliers, and that's why LAP is designed to create a level playing field for all participants. -
How to sabotage your agility in 5 simple steps
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The rise and rise of Quarterfall
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Les Mills PO
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PO Xero
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CXO ASB
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Jeroen, Kainga Ora, ATF
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Lauren Cross ATF
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Rebecca Speirs, ATF
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Only consultants near, Ryan Packer
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How to sabotage your teams in 5 simple steps
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Ashley, ATF
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Why I Joined the Agile Alliance Board: A Heartfelt Shoutout to My Community
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Six Timeless Lessons from Agile Australia 2023
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Agile: A Continuation, Not a Conclusion
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The decline of the A word
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Introducing the Retro Facilitation Canvas
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Prioritisation in 3 ‘simple’ questions
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"Are you Drowning your Autonomy in Good Intentions" on Remote:AF
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Why you get inconsistent experiences working with Agile Coaches
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Learning your way to a successful strategy
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Are you Drowning Your Autonomy in Good Intentions?
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Lean Agile Procurement (LAP) overview
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Your guide to Lean Agile Procurement