by Shane Gibson | Dec 19, 2013 | Coaching
As part of the Agile week at BoostAgile, they gave me a copy of the lean startup book to read. I liked it One of the things I really liked was the concept of creating experiments to prove or disprove an idea or concept. Its one of the things we have been doing...
by Shane Gibson | Dec 13, 2013 | Optimal Company
Innovation is a popular word these days in business. Good old Wikipedia defines it as “Innovation is the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, inarticulated needs, or existing market needs.” But being innovative is not simple. And...
by Shane Gibson | Dec 9, 2013 | AgileBI, Optimal Company
So day one is down and it was a day of setting the vision and starting the definition of the scope (the Dev team were off sick, so it was only a 1/2 a day) The Process The day started with a quick whiteboard overview of the entire Agile Scrum Framework and this...
by Shane Gibson | Dec 8, 2013 | Optimal Company
I love learning new stuff! The six months I spent at Xero has probably been my most intensive learning experience I have had, and in retrospect it was due to the fact it was total immersion, completely focussed on delivery (having Rod Drury walking the floor behind...
by Shane Gibson | Dec 8, 2013 | Data Integration, Managed BI, SAS, Visualisation
Kathryn has just spent part of last week mentoring a SAS VA customer in Australia. We love this type of work because we help out customers help themselves (rather than black boxing delivery and forcing them to pay us for every change) and because we always learn new...
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