Recently, I took a course in DSDM, an agile project delivery framework.  Whether you’ve taken the course yourself, or if you’re thinking about booking it, here are some of my thoughts after having completed my training.

Only got a minute? Here’s the 5 things we learnt:

Quite simply, we want to work with great people, so we’re always on the lookout for talented new Badgers. Even if there’s nothing quite right for you now, we’ll either do what we can to make space for you or keep your details for when the perfect…

Using cross-functional teams to deliver projects is a no-brainer. So why do many organisations get it wrong, and how well does your organisation do?

While the majority of senior managers are keen on the idea of boosting organisational efficiency and improving customer focus by restructuring the way teams work, very few are doing so. But why?

Prioritisation is a necessary evil of every product development lifecycle. Deciding what to build, where to focus limited resources and what customers segments to target are questions that face every organisation on a day to day basis. So with this…

1. The chorus to Lou Bega’s lesser-known second single "I Got A Girl".
2. USA’s contestant in 1995’s International Gladiators.
3. Saturday morning BBC kids’ show Live & Kicking’s telephone number.
4. Robbie Fowler’s middle name.
5. David Bowie’s waist size.*

A…

Why honestly? Because there’s a lot of BS floating around when companies talk about social value.

This title is a bit of an oxymoron. You can’t really call it a cross-functional team if there isn’t UX and Design in it to deliver your product. But we see so many times we have to dig deep to keep these disciplines in our delivery teams.

If I said to you I know about less safe dad, the place where your brain would go probably isn’t toward project management. Technically, if I was being completely correct I would say LeSS SAFe DAD. Sort of looks more like a cry for help created from…

As we work with larger and more complex companies, we become the people to introduce Agile ways of working into an organisation. However, when you’ve worked using Agile for a decade or more, as many of us have, you often assume some knowledge that…

We have a £2,000 annual training budget at Red Badger that can be used however we like. Most people use it to travel to attend a conference in the US, Asia-Pacific or somewhere equally exciting. Training is really specific to your job role and…

Typically on most Agile projects, the success (or failure) of a project can heavily depend on how good (or bad) the product owner is and how committed they are. Good Agile teams that consistently deliver the right thing at the right time, and with…

More often than not, software projects end up with pretty arbitrary deadlines. We’ve all had a version of this conversation:

Once upon a time, six blind men went to find out what an elephant is.The first man touched the legs of the elephant and thought, an elephant is like a big pillar or a tree with strong skin. The second man touched the tail and came to the conclusion…

This week I’m in Antwerp, Belgium for a 2 day Lean Change Agent workshop with Jason Little. Day 1 just ended and I’m exhausted!! But in that great my-brain-is-buzzing-with-new-ideas-and-information kind of way. Since my brain is way too excited to…