Biting off what you can chew This week I prioritised an appropriate amount of work. I knew that several things would fly in over the course of the week and I made sure I accounted for this in my prioritisation. Looking back at the week I accomplished everything I set out to do. …

In the past year, I have worked as an Agile Coach with several public service organisations, coaching new Scrum Masters, and teams that are new to agile methodologies. In these contexts, the role of the Scrum Master is particularly important, as teams are still new to self-organising and may not…

And how to know if it’s worked — Starting a project well At the beginning of a new project, we like to start with a short inception phase. In practice, this is a series of short facilitated workshops that have specific outcomes in mind. …

Basis helps public services tackle messy problems. We use agile approaches that aim to improve services quickly. We also help public services to develop the confidence to work in an agile way on their own projects through our Agile Master in Public Services training programme. Agile is an iterative approach…

Five tips to make them better — In October and February each year a wave of dread crashes through halls of organisations across the country: “Rats. It’s away day season”. Historically, away days have been an afterthought. Agendas are thrown together on the fly, lunch orders are forced on any supplier still accepting calls. …

I started running Basis’s UK consulting business at the end of last year. As might be expected, I’ve taken on lots of new responsibilities. I haven’t shed many of the old ones. Recently I caught myself making some stupid mistakes. In the last month, I’ve submitted more than one proposal…

The traditional approach to dealing with complex challenges often starts with problems. What’s stopping us from achieving the outcomes we hope to achieve and what solutions might we develop to solve these problems. This is perfectly logical. But sometimes, misses the opportunity to amplify great practices that are already present…

Gwersi o’r gors — Mae llawer o’r hyn rydw i wedi ysgrifennu amdano yn ddiweddar wedi ymwneud â hwyluso grwpiau mawr. Ond beth am hwyluso grwpiau bach — y math a allai ddigwydd yng nghyd-destun Impact Sprint neu weithdy bach. A yw’r un egwyddorion yn berthnasol? Rwy’n meddwl mai’r hyn y mae’r rhan fwyaf…

At the beginning of this year, I wrote about our intention to help organisations in Wales to do iterative, agile change in Welsh. Over the past two months, we have been improving, developing and translating our training to contribute to this goal. We have been running our Agile Master in…