In January 2020, I and 8 other experienced DevOps and Agile practitioners from around the World became the first 9 DASA DevOps Coaches. DASA (The DevOps Agile Skills Association) is a community driven organisation with the aim to improve skills and knowledge for DevOps teams and transformations. The DASA DevOps Coach certification is their latest […]
On the 16th January 2020 four experienced Agile Coaches and Trainers got together to discuss a training strategy for a global organisation. This organisation had been undergoing an Agile Modernisation and Transformation programme of work for over 3 years to date. Despite a roll out of large scale classroom based training courses, the agile adoption […]
We’ve been introducing the Lean Coffee approach to running team meetings for many years. In every case the reaction has been positive with quotes like “This has been the best team meeting we’ve ever had” “I’ve never learned so much before in a team meeting” “Wow, this managed to get ideas from everyone not just […]
In September 2018 our MD, Darryl Sherborne, was honoured to be interviewed on the weekly Scrum Master Toolbox podcast hosted by Vasco Duarte. If you can’t wait for the individual posts we will publish regarding each podcast episode, you can access each one via these links. We would love to hear your views on the […]
One way to help teams find their “groove” is to celebrate success. A simple, yet effective, reinforcement technique that helps teams identify, and seek success later on as well. However, some cultures are better than others at expressing their celebration of success. In this episode we talk about a specific culture, the UK, where the […]
Last week we were lucky enough to attend the Agile On The Beach 2018 conference in Falmouth, UK. On day 2 of this event keynote speaker Woody Zuill presented a review of Mob Programming and in his words explained “I can’t tell you what to do and I shouldn’t, it would be presumptive of me […]
From time to time we like to assess how well our agile implementations are going. A simple radar chart can give you a good insight into the overall health of your teams in terms of Agile / Scrum / Kanban maturity and performance. Each spine on the radar chart can reflect your assessment of how well […]
Why are we called Kaizenjoy? We think continuous improvement is wonderful. The mindset of Kaizen comes from the Toyota Production System. This was researched many years ago and was the foundation for lean thinking. This in turn has underpinned Agile delivery approaches, and the DevOps movement we see today. We have delivered work for many […]