I recently tweeted this Can anyone recommend any books which focus on the soft skills/behaviours required of someone in a senior / leadership position? I had so many replies with lots of interesting books and resources so I thought I would collate all the responses in one place for others…

I’ve recently been interviewing for a new Delivery Manager and the phrase “scope creep” kept arising, for me this term feels somewhat outdated and redundant in the agile world we live in now. I strive for the reverse, a team that embraces scope creep. Not to the degree where I…

This isn’t a blog post of all my 2020 achievements, like all of us, surviving was more than enough but here’s just a selection of the things I’m proud of achieving along with the rest of the Deeson team over the last twelve months and a few personal projects that…

Resilience, noun the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. A couple of months ago, I was really starting to feel the weight of remote working, along with a healthy dose of imposter syndrome and was, to be honest, taking work too seriously. In a perpetual cycle of stress, often…

On Monday, we hosted another delivery communities of practice meet across the Panoply. One hour, twenty attendees and four great talks. It was great to hear what other teams and individuals across the group are working on and get the opportunity to spend some time together. First up was Joyce…

We have worked hard at Deeson to develop a robust DSDM agile framework for the delivery of our projects, which has held us in good stead for the type of work we regularly do. Typically these are four to six-month development projects, developed iteratively in two-week Timeboxes. …

DSDM is our framework of choice at Deeson and this blog post explains why. Firstly, what is it? DSDM is “an Agile method that focuses on the full project lifecycle, DSDM was created in 1994 after project managers using RAD (Rapid Application Development) sought more governance and discipline to this new iterative way of…

Inspired by John Cutler, a list of thoughts, idea’s and considerations that have surfaced during recent conversations with Mark Dalgarno, Jason Yip, Elaine Aitken, and Victoria Mitchell around the topic of internal agile coaching. Start by asking your team(s) what help they need “If you could get agile coaching for…

The desire for social approval is a powerful motivator. It can be very useful to us in our work when it ensures that we stick to the promises that we make (or at least act to repair the damage done when we can’t stick to them), but it can also…