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Is the impact of Agile just a Hawthorne Effect ?
The Hawthorne Effect is a human behavioural theory drawn by various social scientists from trials undertaken between 1927 and 1932 at Western Electric’s Hawthorne Works. The trials found that...
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Shaping IT Organisations: CIO Strategy Forum presentation by Nigel Dalton
In which the 3rd Reich*, the Catholic Church, and Monty Python are resoundly thumped by William Edwards Deming in the race to design a healthy, productive IT organisation for the 21st century. By the...
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Agile history article on ITnews.com.au – why the time is NOW for agile
I was kindly invited to submit an op-ed for IT News’s week of features on agile in Australia, and took the chance to outline my opinion that agile will continue to reveal itself as a black swan for...
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Genchi Genbutsu – The real life of a taxi driver by Konrad Marshall
Challenged by a suggestion that victorian taxi drivers were “a new and disturbing category of the ‘working poor’ in Australia” journalist Konrad Marshall sought to find out the truth about exactly how...
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Agile Australia 2013 Reflections
It’s become a bit of a tradition for Nigel and I to write some reflections after the annual Agile Australia conference. This year Nigel was stuck at home in Melbourne, so it’s just down to me. I felt...
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Agile Encore – Workshop and Talk – Nov 14th 2013
I talked about one of our favourite clients BAUM Cycles at Agile Australia 2013 in the middle of the year – It must have been popular because I’ve been invited back for the Agile Encore in Melbourne on...
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Inspired by Agile – A guest post from Avril Jean
Avril is a talented artist and QA super star. While we worked with her team she would always paint pictures to express what was going on. In this very honest piece (re-posted from her own blog with...
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Self-Selecting teams – tales from WW2 Lancaster bomber crews
ePredix Office, Minneapolis, MN in 2001 Back in the day, when I worked in the USA in a fascinating startup (then called ePredix, who were rolled into Previsor and are now part of SHL), I was regularly...
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Weddings, Parties and Agile!
Weddings, Parties and Agile! Yikes! It’s the 24th February 2013, and my girlfriend and I just got engaged. I’m sure many couples planning a wedding can relate to the “OMG moments” when realising that...
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The Luna MBA 2014 Update
Two topics remain consistently popular on our little LT site… Agile Workplaces and the Luna MBA. Just as we encourage all our clients and friends to keep reading and learning so we do ourselves and so...
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