May 1010 Lessons Learned after 3 years at BabylonThis post is sponsored by Program Hire. Looking for your next program or delivery role in Technology? Visit Program Hire, where the team of in-house experts find the best roles in tech, so you can back to shipping the products of the future. Sign up for job alerts here. Over…Scrum5 min readScrum5 min read
Nov 1, 2022Problem-led AgileThis was first published as part of the Velocity Agile substack newsletter. To subscribe for more articles like this, click here: Velocity Agile newsletter. Why do companies fail? They fail because their product or service fails to solve a customer problem. It can be the most beautiful product in the…Agile3 min readAgile3 min read
Oct 7, 2022How much does it cost? How decentralised cost ownership typifies the agile mindsetThis was first published as part of the Velocity Agile newsletter. To subscribe for more articles like this, straight to your inbox, click here: Velocity Agile newsletter. How much did it cost to build your product? What’s the unit economics of your product? What once may have been straight forward…Finops3 min readFinops3 min read
Aug 8, 2022Tesla’s agile obsession and how software principles are eating car manufacturingThis was first published in my newsletter, Velocity Agile. Subscribe to get new posts and interviews about agile every month, direct to your inbox. Subscribe to Velocity Agile Did you know that Tesla uses agile principles? I did not, until I came across a number of interviews with Joe Justice…Programming4 min readProgramming4 min read
Published inSerious Scrum·Aug 3, 2022Eating our own dog food: How we used Scrum to improve our Scrum implementationWe were exasperated. We all stared at the Miro board of ideas we had been capturing for the past hour on how to improve our agile delivery at Babylon. We’d got to this point before, but now we needed real action. The key question was, what’s next? Previously we had…Scrum5 min readScrum5 min read
Jun 20, 2022Interview with Dorothy Paredes: Career Paths to TPM, Public Safety Agile, and moreThis was first published in my newsletter, Velocity Agile. Subscribe to get new posts and interviews about agile every month, direct to your inbox. Subscribe to Velocity Agile Last month I had the opportunity to sit down with Dorothy Paredes — Technical Program Manager at RapidDeploy, for a great conversation…Agile9 min readAgile9 min read
Apr 20, 2022Three complementary practices from Amazon to introduce to your agile product development processThis was the sixth edition of the Velocity Agile newsletter. If you like this article, subscribe to learn how to improve your agile delivery through examples from LEGO, Porsche, Amazon and many more, completely free. Click this link to subscribe. Too many business books look at strategy, and too few…Agile3 min readAgile3 min read
Mar 7, 2022How Amazon’s culture typifies the principles of AgileThis was the fifth edition of the Velocity Agile newsletter. If you like this article, subscribe to learn how to improve your agile delivery through examples from LEGO, Porsche, Amazon and many more, completely free. Click this link to subscribe. The most agile company in the world — that doesn’t…Amazon4 min readAmazon4 min read
Feb 24, 2022Riot Games: Using Agile to Build the World’s Largest e-Sport.This was the third edition of the Velocity Agile newsletter. If you like this article, subscribe to learn how to improve your agile delivery through examples from LEGO, Porsche, Amazon and many more, completely free. Click this link to subscribe. Have you heard of Riot Games? I hadn’t before writing…Agile5 min readAgile5 min read
Feb 8, 2022Spotify: The Agile Nirvana?This was the second edition of the Velocity Agile newsletter. If you like this article, subscribe to get a real agile case study from the likes of Spotify, LEGO and Porsche in your inbox every week, completely free. Click this link to subscribe. Not many startups have managed to become…Agile5 min readAgile5 min read
