Today’s episode is a mini-hack all about checking in on-line, If you’re team has moved to home working you’re probably learning and adapting very quickly to making things work for you without being in physical proximity to each other, and I’m sure like me you’re seeing many articles, videos and guides for how to get remote working working well for you. If you listened to a previous mini hack #21 from the 8th November, it was about breaking the ice, using icebreakers at the start of a ...
Mar 27, 2020•8 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Hello and welcome to the reboot your regular Friday de-brief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. And the things that we’ve heard and seen mostly coming from the agile community here in Melbourne and beyond is agile combined with remote working, Here are the other podcasts I mentioned: https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/3/8/the-weekly-reboot-lisette-sutherland https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2018/12/7/the-weekly-reboot-bonus-episo...
Mar 20, 2020•11 min•Season 3Ep. 7
This week’s mini hack is all about finding your flow by working your Kanban boards Right to Left and implementing a Pull system. Easy to start working on at your stand-up. Please read Daniel Ploeg’s excellent blogs on the topic here! His simple blogs were the inspo for this mini hack: https://evogility.com.au/right-to-left/ If you’ve ever considered getting help with facilitation, or all other aspects of working better in teams or groups? If you want to find out more about how we can...
Mar 13, 2020•11 min•Season 3Ep. 6
This week we were very lucky to interview the top keynote speaker and writer Jurgen Appelo , thanks to the good graces of Ed Wong at Tabar who had Jurgen as keynote speaker for last weeks 1st conference. It was delightful to talk to Jurgen, about the topic of his talk, which was How to Fix Your Failed Agile Transformation and some elements of his latest book STARTUP, SCALEUP, SCREWUP. Follow @TheRebootco on Twitter , or subscribe to our newsletter where there are heaps of more ...
Mar 06, 2020•17 min•Season 3Ep. 5
I sat down to talk to Adrian about how and where we learn about all this Agile, Lean and Systems Thinking stuff! A list of places, resources and ideas below, in the order we talked about them! Agile Australia: https://agileaustralia.com.au/2020/ Agile and Scrum user group meetup: https://www.meetup.com/scrum-12/ Other meetups: https://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Lean-Coffee/events/ljgnlnybcfbfb/ https://www.meetup.com/Cynefin-Melbourne-Meetup-Group/events/267920499/ Henrick ...
Feb 28, 2020•32 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Welcome to the weekly reboot your regular Friday debrief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the Agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. A few things we’ve heard and seen to fill you in on. Our episode today, and it’s about a topic I’m interested in which is Future Life and you can register for the Future Life Conference here: https://futurelifeconference.com/2020/ we spoke to Dr. Viktoria Komornik and Gabor Devenyi the creators of Future Life Conference. Other local ‘agile’ news: 1...
Feb 21, 2020•22 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Welcome to The Weekly ReBoot your regular Friday debrief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the Agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. Last week we heard from Agile change maker and all around good guy Jurgen Appello, this week we are going to hear from the other Keynote speaker of 1st Conference Sole Pinter, who was delightful to talk to and get her take on Heart of Agile and why it’s powerful. Sole has capacity to run a half or full day private session at your workpl...
Feb 14, 2020•19 min•Season 3Ep. 2
Welcome to The Weekly ReBoot your regular Friday debrief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the Agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. It’s good to be back after a nice long summer break. This week a very special brief episode where Jurgen Appelo https://jurgenappelo.com/ tells me a little bit about his coming appearance at 1st Conference, and the workshops that he will be running in Australia. You can register for 1st Conference in Melbourne, it will be on one t...
Feb 07, 2020•11 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Welcome to the Weekly ReBoot your regular Friday debrief coming from the agile community here in Melbourne and beyond! Today, as you might be able to tell, something a little different, this is my Christmas present to you all, our loyal listeners, I’ve put together many bite size gifts of excerpts from our wonderful guests from the podcast for 2019. It’s the parts that I loved, or the messages I enjoyed, all wrapped up in a Christmas package for you, with a little sprinkling of…. Some Christmas ...
Dec 20, 2019•52 min•Season 2Ep. 42
Welcome to the weekly reboot your regular Friday debrief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the Agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. You’re about to hear an interview that I did yesterday with Igor Goulko the founder of DevOps talks conferences which will be running in Melbourne, Aukland Sydney and Singapore in 2020. That was the weekly reboot for this week, You can find out how to register and / or how to submit talks to Igor's conferences, and I encourage you to do that, it wa...
Dec 13, 2019•33 min•Season 2Ep. 41
The weekly ReBoot your regular Friday de-brief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the Agile Community here in Melbourne and beyond. Today a very very special episode of the podcast, I caught up with Nigel Dalton in literally the smallest cafe in Melbourne to talk about what it means to be Superproductive, Nigel’s new venture and (soon to be finished and published) book. Check out his site here: https://www.superproductive.com/ Nigel is one of the faces of our Lean and Agile community and...
Dec 06, 2019•32 min•Season 2Ep. 40
The weekly reboot your regular Friday debrief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. Sign up for the newsletter at https://www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter This will get you straight into our feed, and you’ll receive Insights to help you transform ways of working so people love their jobs. This weeks mini hack is all about Different ways to have hack events! Here’s a great how-to article by Kimi George of REA Group: https://www.rea-group.com/bl...
Nov 29, 2019•9 min•Season 2Ep. 39
The weekly reboot your regular Friday debrief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. S ign up for the newsletter at https://www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter This will get you straight into our feed, and you’ll receive Insights to help you transform ways of working so people love their jobs. This weeks mini hack is all about : https://leancoffee.org/ Nigel is leaving REA Group and his new ventures is https://www.superproductive.com/ Music for th...
Nov 22, 2019•9 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Welcome to the weekly reboot your regular Friday debrief of things we’ve heard and seen coming from the agile community here in Melbourne and beyond. S ign up for the newsletter at https://www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter This will get you straight into our feed, and you’ll receive Insights to help you transform ways of working so people love their jobs. This week a mini hack about putting on your waste goggles to help you identify and eradicate waste! The seven deadly wastes as identified by Taii...
Nov 15, 2019•11 min•Season 2Ep. 37
News Just In! Sign up to our Newsletter to get Insights to help you transform ways of working in your inbox! Visit: https://www.rebootco.com.au/newsletter Today’s mini-hack episode contains valuable Icebreakers, help you warm up any room before a meeting, workshop or offsite. Have you ever considered getting help with facilitation and all other aspects of working better in teams or groups? If you want to find out more about how we can help, or anything else you’ve heard on the podcast then you c...
Nov 08, 2019•7 min•Season 2Ep. 36
Another mini hack today which is from the Design Thinking body of knowledge and the masters of Design Thinking - IDEO, and that is The Rules of Brainstorming. Brain- storming is one of those things that gets thrown about a lot as a technique. But it can often descend into just a flurry of ideas or conversation without any resolution or purpose. OR even worse self/censoring or censoring other people’s ideas can yield an atmosphere where the best and most creative contributions never make it to th...
Nov 01, 2019•6 min•Season 2Ep. 35
Today we have another mini hack episode for you and it’s about the Art of the Reflective Pause. I was part of running a big workshop last week that involved a whole lot of information and learning, and I witnessed on several occasions the power of reflective pauses, something that if you run a lot of workshops you might be accustomed to doing, and I thought to myself, yes! this is a powerful tool and worthy of a mention as a mini hack for you! Follow me on twitter at @stokesxandra or rebootco @T...
Oct 25, 2019•11 min•Season 2Ep. 34
This week another mini hack, and this week it’s a simple thing you could do to increase your team’s performance. Full of step by step instructions and lots of tips and goodies to try for your team. We’d love you feedback, get in contact if you have some or if you want to learn more about increasing team performance. Email [email protected] Follow Alex on twitter @stokesxandra follow ReBoot Co. on twitter @Therebootco...
Oct 18, 2019•9 min•Season 2Ep. 33
This week another mini hack and it was inspired by a twitter thread that I saw last week. The thread in question suggested that Agile was going to “jump the shark” because of such Malarky as a HR Agility Manifesto that someone had created, and you kind find that manifesto at " https://www.agilehrmanifesto.org/ “ We’ve got a special episode coming up a couple of weeks, you’ll be able to come along to a live recording of the podcast, the date for that will be the 22nd of October and we’ll bring yo...
Oct 11, 2019•9 min•Season 2Ep. 32
This week we’re bringing you an experience report fresh from Spark the Change conference, an engaging conference centred on Purpose and meaning at work, which I was fortunate to attend on Friday the 13th, I caught up with Tony, in his car while we were driving around between meetings. The speakers and the schedule can be found at this link: https://sparkthechange.com.au/2019/speakers/ Our lunch break Vox pops featured: Lisa Jacob from Tabar, Pete Cohen from Diius, Adrian Fittolani from Edrolo an...
Sep 20, 2019•48 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Tony Fifoot recently attended the first Agile Culture Conference: https://www.agilecultureconf.com/program/ , if you want to hear more about that from the creator of the conference go here! https://www.rebootco.com.au/podcast/2019/8/23/the-weekly-reboot-feat-rajesh-mathur an interview of Rajesh Mathur. I caught up with Tony for an experience report of the conference so you can get a little flavour of how it went. The Program was: Keeping Culture Coherent at Scale By James Ross , CTO, Envato Who ...
Sep 13, 2019•39 min•Season 2Ep. 30
This week we interviewed the Chief People Officer at Envato Michelle Ridsdale, tune in and hear about what it’s like to lead the people capability there at a company with a great reputation for values and culture, as well as it having an awesome agile digital delivery capability, AND is very practiced at working with remote teams and people. We talk about the challenges of scaling a company without losing those important elements. https://envato.com/ https://envato.com/careers/ We gratefully rec...
Sep 06, 2019•33 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Well today it’s another mini hack and we’re talking Cycle time folks, what is it? Why measure it? How do measure it? You should, because this one simple trick could unlock a bunch of potential improvements for you and your team. I was inspired to record this mini hack, and perhaps a small teaser, I caught up with Adam Boas last week and that interview will be coming soon, one of the things he spoke of had me face palming straight away and the following Monday I was annoying people all over the p...
Aug 30, 2019•10 min•Season 2Ep. 28
Rajesh Mather is an independent Agile consultant who helps execs and teams implement agile practices and importantly agile mindset, he is also a passionate conference organiser and has set up and run many conferences including Testing Days many meet-ups and new conference on the block which is the Agile Culture Conference running on the 6th of September, there are a few tickets left for this combination of a keynote + unconference learning sessions, to ensure the topics are good prompters for so...
Aug 23, 2019•54 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Today another mini hack and it’s not strictly something linked to the Agile community and it’s certainly not something I invented but it is a good companion tool to working with agility and also levelling up your personal performance and it’s called Pomodoro Technique. Named Pomodoro after the kitchen timers that come in the shape of a tomato the pomodoro technique was invented by a man called Francessco Cirillo in the early 1990’s when Francessco was at uni looking to get more done in less time...
Aug 16, 2019•10 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Today a women-in-tech inspired mini hack, how to invite more women’s voices to participate and ask questions in open forums at conferences. If you listened closely to the podcast last week which was recorded live at LAST conference you would have heard this hack invoked in REAL time. Here’s the problem, Men always ask questions first, and are always more likely to follow up with more questions and then build on them. Here’s the article that Ed O’Shaunessy shared that has the data on this topic a...
Aug 09, 2019•7 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Welcome to The Weekly ReBoot, something a little different this week. Ed O’Shaunessy @agileeddie and I were lucky enough to host a panel of Luminaries at LASTConf Melbourne . Ed is an agile coach currently working at ANZ in their big transformation and it’s always great to co-host a session with Ed. It was also a great opportunity to have so much experience on the panel, from such a diverse collection of speakers, and those speakers were: Jeanette Peterson from RMIT - Jeanette is innovations del...
Aug 02, 2019•47 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Todays episode is another mini hack, and it’s about Writing better descriptors, for your tasks, cards, or stories, or basically for whatever you call the units of work you do. In the beginning, just after the dark ages of software in the 90s, people were discovering better ways of developing software and a thing called the ’User Story’ was created. Sometime between then and 2001 the user story format was created by Mike Cohn, and it really was a handy way to learn how to first engage with user s...
Jul 26, 2019•7 min•Season 2Ep. 23
We’re back and we have a great little interview today from Craig Brown, well known contributor to the agile community in Australia, Craig runs a company Called Everest https://everest.engineering/#/ they provide Software Engineering when you need it. Craig is also an initiator of lots of popular and excellent community events such as the marvellous LAST conference, and there’s quite a bit of information about LAST conference at the end of our podcast so stay tuned until the end for that. LAST co...
Jul 19, 2019•47 min•Season 2Ep. 22
This was the link to the article that drew me into answering these 6 questions daily and had me not only happier but learning more about myself. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181016-how-to-boost-your-mood-with-one-10-minute-exercise Give it a try for a week and see how you go. Heart of Agile https://heartofagile.com/ has ‘Reflect’ as a headline ‘way’. Here are the three hacks to get more reflection happening in your teams: Ask for a few minutes reflection in a session, and if you can’t get t...
Jun 27, 2019•10 min•Season 2Ep. 21
