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Project to Product nudges for large organisations

As large and typically “traditional” organisations start to embark, maintain momentum or pivot on their journey with new ways of working, the buzzwords of “Project to Product” are likely to be in the conversation in your organisation. One of the primary drivers of this has been the book of the…

Product Management

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Project to Product nudges for large organisations
Project to Product nudges for large organisations
Product Management

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ASOS Tech Blog

·Mar 22

The many flaws of flow efficiency

As organisations try to improve their ways of working, better efficiency is often a cited goal. ‘Increasing flow’ is something else you may hear, with Flow Efficiency being a measure called out as something organisations need to focus on. The problem is that few, if any, share the many flaws…

Culture

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The many flaws of Flow Efficiency
The many flaws of Flow Efficiency
Culture

9 min read


Mar 18, 2022

Course Announcement: FlowViz Fundamentals

FlowViz is a free data visualisation template for Power BI that allows you to better visualize flow metrics from the data your teams’ Kanban board generates in Azure DevOps, Azure DevOps Server, TFS or GitHub Issues. The chart contains industry recognised flow metrics (Throughput, Work In Progress, Cycle Time, Work…

Data

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Course Announcement: FlowViz Fundamentals
Course Announcement: FlowViz Fundamentals
Data

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Nationwide Technology

·Jan 14, 2022

There’s no such thing as a committed outcome

A joint article by both myself and Ellie Taylor, a fellow Ways of Working Enablement Specialist here at Nationwide. The Golden Thread As we start a new year, focusing on outcomes has been a common topic of discussion in our work in the last few weeks.

Agile

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There’s no such thing as a committed outcome
There’s no such thing as a committed outcome
Agile

8 min read


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Nationwide Technology

·Nov 5, 2021

The time we went to Lean Agile Exchange…

Recently I was fortunate enough to speak at Lean Agile Exchange 2021 on a topic that evolved from one of the previous posts on this blog about blocked work and its impact. The conference setup at Lean Agile Exchange was super cool, with an interactive ‘map’ on the day taking…

Agile

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The time we went to Lean Agile Exchange…
The time we went to Lean Agile Exchange…
Agile

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Published in

Nationwide Technology

·Oct 11, 2021

Capacity planning in less than five minutes

Following on from my recent Story Pointless series, I realised there was one element I missed. Think of this like a bonus track from an album, I’ll take Ludacris’ Welcome to Atlanta if we’re talking specifics. Anyway, quite often we’ll find that stakeholders are less interested in Stories, instead focusing…

Ways Of Working

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Capacity planning in less than five minutes
Capacity planning in less than five minutes
Ways Of Working

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Nationwide Technology

·Oct 4, 2021

Story Pointless (Part 3 of 3)

The final of this three-part series on moving away from Story Points and how to introduce empirical methods within your team(s). Part one refamiliarised ourselves with what story points are, a brief history lesson and facts about them, the pitfalls of using them and how we can use alternative methods…

Agile

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Story Pointless (Part 3 of 3)
Story Pointless (Part 3 of 3)
Agile

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Nationwide Technology

·Sep 27, 2021

Story Pointless (Part 2 of 3)

The second in a three-part series on moving away from Story Points and how to introduce empirical methods within your team(s). …

Agile

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Story Pointless (Part 2 of 3)
Story Pointless (Part 2 of 3)
Agile

7 min read


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Nationwide Technology

·Sep 20, 2021

Story Pointless (Part 1 of 3)

The first in a three-part series on moving away from Story Points and how to introduce empirical methods within your team(s). Part one refamiliarises ourselves with what story points are, a brief history lesson and facts about them, the pitfalls of using them and how we can use alternative methods…

Agile

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Story Pointless (Part 1 of 3)
Story Pointless (Part 1 of 3)
Agile

8 min read


Published in

Nationwide Technology

·Apr 30, 2021

ThoughtSpot and Blocked Work

The Importance of Being Blocked Despite our best attempts at creating small, cross-functional and autonomous teams, being “blocked” is unfortunately still a common occurrence with many teams. There can be any number of reasons why work gets blocked — it could be internal to the team (e.g. waiting on Product Owner/Manager feedback, environments down, etc.)…

Ways Of Working

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ThoughtSpot and Blocked Work
ThoughtSpot and Blocked Work
Ways Of Working

5 min read

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Nick Brown

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Agile Coach @ ASOS | https://www.nicolasbrown.co.uk

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