Software is mostly hand built by people working in teams and good teams generally build better software more regularly. That’s a bold statement but software products that are reliable, easy to use, fast to respond and get the job done… Read More
Agile Business Analysis Using the Three Amigos
Good outcomes when building software features is strongly connected to having the right insight and information at the right time to help form a consensus on what to actually build. The problem with traditional requirements documents is that they typically… Read More
Collocation and What Matters to People About Workspace?
Most people involved in IT work in some kind of office if they are collocated with their team and not working from home or some other remote location. That office may be furnished in a typical modern day style or… Read More
Development Agility May Not Mean a Formal Agile Transformation
Change within organisations is not normally easy to achieve and it’s even hard to make changes stick. The book sellers are full of change management publications advising on ways to achieve organisational transformation. But working in new ways doesn’t have… Read More
IT Industry Gender Gaps, Banter, Memes and Office Culture Research from Jessica Drackett
Creating great software is a design process from start to finish. It involves an endless stream decisions about everything, from constructing individual lines of code to the radius of rounded corners on buttons. If the people making those design decisions… Read More
Gender Diversity Initiatives to Change the IT Industry with Amy Lynch
Men have dominated the IT sector for many years to the detriment of the industry. It is important for everyone that the people who are creating solutions with software represent the mix of people who are using this software to… Read More
Systems Thinking Explained by Chris McDermott
Thinking about software development work being organised as a system hasn’t generally been the default approach taken by business leaders over the past few decades. That is until lean / agile approaches started being talked about. Traditionally a popular way to… Read More
An Overview of Hexangonal Architectures with Ian Cooper
Hexagonal architecture or ports and adaptors as it is sometimes called, is a design pattern applied to software applications that attempts to separate core functionality and business rules, often called the domain model, from the interfaces used to interact with… Read More
Agile Yorkshire Software Development Community
Every month NewRedo plays host to the Agile Yorkshire community group. Fifty people come together to listen and swap ideas. It could be more but we’ve only room for that many. At NewRedo we’re very keen that the process of… Read More