Digital by Default

Tag: agile

  • [IMHO] Agile Planning – Roadmaps and Releases

    Pretty much everything I do and say when it comes to product roadmaps was influenced/stolen from Jamie Arnold and this post/presentation is no different. If you want real insight into how to do these things well get him in to talk you through his ‘masterclass’. In the meantime you can enjoy this Aldi version. ===========================================…

  • [IMHO] The Art of Effective Agile

    During my recent time at MHCLG I did a series of opinionated sessions on agile/digital ways of working I think of as the [IMHO] series. They were light on speakers note and long on rants – but the slides were solid enough so I am sharing what I can here. ========================================== THE ART OF EFFECTIVE…

  • Designing the mod(ern) squad

    squad /skwɒd/nouna small group of people having a particular task. Background I recently wrote about our new Squad Manager role(s) and wanted to just dig in a bit to how we see our squad model growing and evolving. Like many companies and organisations we follow Spotify in referring to our agile delivery teams as ‘squads’.…

  • What the Forking Here* is a Squad Manager?

    https://media.giphy.com/media/3o6fJ8baw3aDgUQnJu/giphy.gif I’ve learned a lot in my first year working for Notbinary — the nuts and bolts of it is pretty well covered in this post from Sean Tubbs about making the switch to consultancy life. A big lesson however is that some of the key positions in the ‘squads’ we provide are a little different from…

  • Ways of working (in progress)

    This is an attempt to write down the approach we are starting to formalise around our ‘squads’ — it is a work in progress but is starting to make sense. It is inspired by working practices I witnessed or experienced at Defra, mySociety, ONS and elsewhere → We work in the open by default — if something needs to…