Servant leadership is often refereed to as a complement to a lean / agile software delivery approach. One of the traits sighted for servant leadership is to lead in a way that supports others and leadership in this context doesn’t… Read More
Lean Agile Principles Deconstructed
Lean / agile software development ideas are essentially modern management methods that take a sideways view at how things can be done. Mostly the ideas within the lean / agile body of knowledge are rooted in system theory and build… Read More
Delivering Value in Software Projects
Features in business software typically make things quicker and less costly to do or sometimes less error prone or more accurately. For this reason the sooner features are deployed, the sooner they can be used and return their cost of… 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
Building an Agile Team
It’s possible to build successful software in all kinds of ways but the need for better commercial outcomes has led to a shift towards modern work practices referred to as lean or agile. Adopting a lean or agile product development… 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
Product Backlog Tools – How to Prioritise Using the Cost of Delay
Have you wondered how to arrange a to-do list in the correct order? Probably not. There’s nothing to learn, right? Clearly, prioritising what to do next shouldn’t be hard. But don’t underestimate how costly a casual attitude to this can… Read More
Building RaceBest
This year saw the launch of a new service from Leeds-based start-up RaceBest Ltd. NewRedo were responsible for building their online system and we continue to host and support it. In building the system we utilised some of the latest… 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
Why User Story Points Help Agile Effort Estimation
Story Points seem to enjoy a perpetually difficult place in the lives of many agile teams. They are the source of much confusion and teams often choose not to adopt them. The traditional practice of quantifying work in days or… Read More