In January, Redgate will undertake another self-selection reteaming process. This post explains why we'll be doing that and how we'll do it
Annual Reteaming at Redgate
Forget dumb productivity measures and focus on software delivery performance with Accelerate’s Four Key Metrics
The book Accelerate - The Science of Lean Software and DevOps: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations has been really important for Redgate over the past 12 months. It's helped us find a software delivery language that teams and the wider company understand and buy into, and allowed us to compare how we're performing against the best in the business.
Workshop: What kind of “leadership” do we really need more of?
A short workshop to encourage people to examine their views of leadership, challenge them to identify "leadership" behaviours that are desirable in their situation and explore how they themselves could lead or influence others.
How Redgate ran it’s first team self-selection process
This post explains in detail exactly how Redgate ran it's first formal team self-selection process, from initial planning to completion.
Team self-selection (without the anxiety)
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.
Agile for the people
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.
Retrospectives at scale: How to run a retro session for a large group
At the end of June Redgate's Product Development organisation ran a retrospective session to review how things have gone in our corner of Redgate in the first half of 2019. This post explains how we ran the large scale retrospective and what we discovered by doing it.
Was our internal development conference worth all the hard 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?
Video: Level Up 2019 Keynote
What have the Wright Brothers, the original Boeing 737 and the Airbus A380 got to do with Redgate's internal development conference, Level Up 2019?
Level Up 2019 has landed!
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?
Leading Agile Teams 