Agile for All

by | Sep 24, 2021

Some reflections on the path agile is taking to adoption through organisations, drawing on some recent experiences and pain points. When organisations begin exploring agility as a key capability, there is a fairly well trodden path of discovery, until efforts stall...

The Tell-tale Heart of Team Failure

by | Nov 1, 2018

  “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.” – John Burroughs At the end of a conference presentation, I was recently asked “how can I tell if an enterprise agile team is failing?”. A question for which I...

Fine tuning your agile system to increase velocity

by | Apr 26, 2018

Being really busy and working really hard = providing maximum value to the team, right? Well… While this obviously can be true, it can also be a comforting lie we tell ourselves without even realising it. If you’re working flat out all week but not completing any...

Making the time to work on the team, not just in one

by | Apr 5, 2018

This week, our curator Laura-Jane Parker reflects on the importance of making time to develop your teams ways of working for greater resilience. At Post*Shift, our mission is to help organisations transform themselves into 21st century businesses. To do this well, we...

Business agile is a system, not a methodology

by | Feb 8, 2018

An increasing number of non-technology projects are set up to run agile (small ‘a’). They recognise the futility of trying to replicate pure Agile or Scrum projects and instead need to pick and choose the ways of working and elements that fit their needs...