As you might have noticed lately, we’ve been talking a lot about Scrum – we’ve done a great post on Learning Scrum in 10 Minutes, and for those of you in Wellington, we’re even running free Scrum workshops.
All of this is really useful, really interesting information, and we hope [...] Continue Reading…
[Here's the tl;dr version of this blog post. Every Friday we run free workshops about Agile development here at the Boost offices in Wellington. To find out more, read on. To sign up, scroll down to the end of this post, or email [email protected]]
Here at Boost, we’ve been using Agile [...] Continue Reading…
One of the topics we most frequently talk about here on the Boost blog is Scrum and Agile development.
Much of the information is targeted at people who are already familiar with Scrum and Agile, but we are well aware there are many people out there to whom Scrum [...] Continue Reading…
Last week a group of us went along to see Jean Tabaka (from Rally Software Development) presentation at a special Agile Welly Meet-up.
The event was an interactive session called Tell Me Why: The Golden Circle of Agile Transformation. Casting aside the traditional slide deck, Jean used Simon Sinek’s golden [...] Continue Reading…
If you like tables and percentages, you’re in luck: two chewy releases in the past couple of weeks are going to give you hours of happy data crunching.
Social networking and our lives
Pew Internet have recently released their report ‘Social networking sites and our lives’, which updates the findings [...] Continue Reading…
Here at Boost we’ve been running Agile projects (using Scrum) internally for about five years, and with clients for more than three. Constant refinement and improvement is a key aspect of Scrum processes, and for our scrum masters in particular (myself, Gavin, Kriston and Courtney) looking for ways to [...] Continue Reading…
The internet is full of interesting resources, but sometimes it gets hard to sift through all the junk in order to find the good content. I find Twitter is really useful for this, especially if you are following the right people, because they sift through all the bad stuff [...] Continue Reading…
Last week the UK Coalition Government launched alpha.gov.uk, a prototype of a possible single government website aimed at making government services easier to use. The prototype is a response to Martha Lane Fox’s (appointed UK Digital Champion by the UK Government in June 2010) call for ‘revolution not [...] Continue Reading…
For the past three weeks I’ve been trialling a new form of to-do list, inspired by the Agile visible workspace. It’s a literal desktop solution: it involves three pieces of tape, some Post It notes, and the right-hand side of my desk. So far, it’s been awesome. Here’s the [...] Continue Reading…
Tomorrow afternoon I’ll be running a user-testing workshop at the Engage Your Community conference here in Wellington. This will be the third EYC gathering I’ve presented at, and I’m really looking forward to it.
The workshop is called ‘Fast and Cheap Usability’. It’s targeted at people who haven’t done user [...] Continue Reading…
