Digital by Default

Tag: agile

  • The Professional

    ..and this ‘thing of ours’ One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot since my move to the consultancy side of things is the perception of professionalism. It was never something I really thought about when I was a civil servant — for better or worse I figured I’d be judged by my deeds and behaviours…

  • Coaching the WoW* factor

    *(ways of working) When it comes to ‘this thing of ours’ I have a handful of preoccupations that I find it hard to shake and it seems finding myself on the other side of the client/supplier relationship is just reinforcing that. I’ve already written a bit about my thoughts on ‘squads’ (and I’ll be returning to…

  • The Team is the Unit of Delivery…as a Service

    One of the reasons I joined NotBinary — the transformation agency I am now working for — is because a big part of their model is this idea of supplying squads to clients to deliver specific outcomes. The clients could be any kind of organisation / business but of course public sector is a big player in the strategy…

  • Nimble?

    adjective quick and light in movement or action; agile. (of the mind) able to think and understand quickly. I think I am going to start talking about ‘nimble’ teams rather than ‘agile not Agile’ which is what I forever seem to be caught in a loop about. I can’t bring myself to use the term…

  • This thing of ours

    Fuggetaboutit I’ve been listening to Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America’s Most Powerful Mafia Empires and recently I stumbled across Donnie Brasco on TV for the first time in ages (not long after hearing about the real story in the audiobook) and it got me thinking about weird little parallels with my…