Working Solutions Over Documentation.
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Military insights for building resilient agile teams. Lessons from the Australian Defence Force.
When things get tough
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It’s important to understand grit and how it can help your team stay strong when things get tough by using military agile methodology and team building exercises. Agile transformations take time. Understanding and using any methodology or framework takes practise. ‘Doing’, in order to become agile, is a part of cultural change…and it’s different. When […]
What does it mean to be a cross-functional team player?
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Military insights to building resilient teams. It takes a strong team or group of people working together to accomplish anything – we need a common goal, a purpose and maybe even a common enemy! We need to train, practise and learn, in order to build up both our team strength and individual skill-set. By focusing […]
Individuals and Interactions Over Processes and Tools.
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Military insights for building resilient agile teams The Agile Manifesto Values and my military training have many correlations. For example – Individuals and Interactions Over Processes and Tools. As a Digger in the Australian Army we are taught a number of rules, processes and tools to use in order to get things done. For some, the […]
Being busy is not being productive.
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It’s common for people to say hello and ask how I’ve been…I flippantly say, “I’ve been busy”, smiling away. The same thing happens the other way too – but what is “busy”? – if you can’t say specifically what you are doing then there may be a deeper issue to sort out. After all, there’s a […]