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In May 2018, Adrienne Wilson and I had the privilege of participating in a Lean Study Tour of Japan hosted by Katie Anderson. We distilled the leadership lessons from this trip down to seven key habits. In 2020, Em was invited to share these habits at the Agile Australia conference. Read more...

Presentation at the Global SAFe Summit Online 2021. Mob Programming thought leader Woody Zuill suggests that instead of always focusing on solving problems, we also take the time to notice the things that are going well and amplify them, thereby "turning up the good". When it comes to SAFe, Dean Read more...

Culture is the shared attitudes, behavioural patterns, and values of human groups, teams and tribes. If we want our organisations to create sustainable products and services underpinned by integrity, trust and value, then we will need to build the culture to support this. In this session Em explores how you Read more...

Presentation at the Global SAFe Summit 2019 in San Deigo. When shaping agile teams, many organisations use a leader decides model. The design of the teams is often a very delicate balancing act. Skills, experience, subject matter expertise and personalities all need to be factored in, and the result is Read more...

Having problems convincing your stakeholders to try DevOps? Confused about how DevOps can work at scale? Or even just wondering where to start with DevOps? Don’t worry you aren’t the only one! Imagine being the business owner of an application that was the complete antithesis of Continuous Delivery i.e. no Read more...

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Presentation at Agile Australia 2014. Are you lost in a sea of business requirements? Are you struggling to articulate the business value of your technology project? Do your user stories lack context? Is there a lack of alignment between your delivery teams and business stakeholders? If you answered yes to Read more...