Are you attracted to the idea of allowing people to decide for themselves what they work on, but worried about what might happen as a result? Yep, we were too. Here's how we kept true to the ideals of self-determination but reduced our collective anxiety about the process.
When people talk about why they adopt an agile approach to software development, they talk about the many benefits of delivering working software iteratively. Rarely do I hear people call out the key reason why we should be taking an agile approach; it's part of the answer to giving people fulfilling and rewarding work.
In March 2019, Redgate held their 2nd internal product development conference, Level Up 2019. The Attendee's Survey results are in, answering the big question - was all the hard work worth it?
On Tuesday 19th March 2019, Redgate held their 2nd annual internal product development conference, Level Up 2019. We, the organisers, aimed to improve the event over last year's successful first try. But did we succeed?
How Redgate has learnt from our first ever internal product development conference to make this year's event, Level Up 2019, even better.
While understanding the "Why" behind a task or action is important, understanding the "Why" behind someone’s approach to leadership can be transformative. In this post, I share my Whys behind how I lead and what I do.
Three years ago agile at Redgate lost its way.
When faced with dysfunction in our interviewing process we decided to improve things by creating a self-organising team. But did it work?
At Redgate we’ve found that development teams with clear purpose, self-direction and freedom to act were the most engaged and delivered amazing results. To shape all our teams to have these qualities we identified six key principles and unleashed our Fantastic Beasts!
How we tackled issues in our interview scheduling process with Theory Y and a self-organising team.
Leading Agile Teams 