The team at NewRedo are delighted to share the incredible response we’ve had from the tech community, for bringing Agile Yorkshire online this month. Our long-running community event, to be held online this Thursday 30th April at 5.30pm, has been… Read More
YAGNI – You Aren’t Going To Need It
The easiest way to save money and time building software products is to only build things that are absolutely essential. More features and frameworks means more code to write, more code to test and more code to go wrong. The… Read More
Using Hoshin Kanri to Become a Lean Enterprise
Achieving strategic business goals in a constantly changing environment is often compared with steering a ship through a storm. Heading in the best overall direction is important while at the same time reacting to the the weather and each breaking… Read More
An Agile in the Public Sector Experience Report
IT projects within the public sector come in all shapes and sizes but have historically been harness to a set of procurement rules and practices that many people criticise for hindering and not helping the best outcomes. Things are changing… Read More
Is the Product Owner an Anti-Pattern
The role of Product Owner was first defined as part of the Scrum agile product development method. The current definition says – “a Scrum Product Owner is responsible for maximising the value of the product resulting from the work of… Read More
An Introduction to the Cynefin Framework
The Cynefin Framework is a decision-making model used to help understand complex systems. The phrase “complex system” has particular meaning within the framework and has usefulness to software systems and the organisations that build and use them. Of particular note… Read More
A Humane Approach to Organisational Change
Organisational change is seldom popular. However all organisations exist in a changing world and must constantly change and adapt to what’s around them and the market conditions that prevail. How an organisation adopts change preoccupies many management teams and whether their… Read More
Ideas on How to Split User Stories
Breaking large user stories (or work items in layman’s terms) down into several smaller ones hugely improves delivery predictability. There are several reasons for this including the fact that smaller items with fewer moving parts are simply easier to estimate… Read More
Firebreak – An NHS Enterprise Innovation Initiative
Innovation in any organisation is easy to talk about but a lot harder to do. Finding ways for worth while ideas to rise above the day today storm of delivery and fire fighting in a way that realises real value… Read More
Agile Telemetry, Doing Data Driven Product Development like a Formula 1 Team
Building a software product requires thousands of design decisions to be made and making those decisions quickly will significantly reduce the time to market. Getting things shipped quickly can significantly reduce commercial risks through gaining early feedback. But making these… Read More