Road Trip! This week on the weekly ReBoot we take a Design Thinking mindset to the road and get observational in order to hone our empathy for humans and how they interact with products and services.

We also have some places left on our Modern Developer training courses. Register at:

The Modern Developer: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-modern-developer-tickets-59150165738

The Modern Developer Graduate: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-modern-developer-graduate-tickets-59150771550

If you were curious about the changes to scrum that were offensive, the background is in this article, I found it quite interesting that frameworks change over time and that these ones were completely missed by us! https://medium.com/serious-scrum/5-controversial-topics-that-were-removed-from-scrum-68b5e83d38f2

This week on The Weekly ReBoot another mini hack! We know that there’s a lot of people out there that are in organisations that insist on doing Big Up Front Design for large pieces of work, in the name of reducing risk, we believe that is flawed and inherently more risky.

Learn how you can ask ‘What’s our Cadence?’ in a way that helps move those big lumbering projects with their Big Up Front Design into something more Agile.

We have a special offer for 12 lucky people that want to sharpen their development skills.

ReBoot Co. are running courses on The Modern Developer.

The Modern Developer allows you to Boost your career with modern practical engineering practices. This 2 day course gives experienced developers the tools and techniques to transition from traditional technical stacks and architectures to the new digital and cloud world. It also helps developers who have been in traditional waterfall environments wanting to understand the difference of development practices in Agile teams and the foundations of DevOps.

Register for The Modern Developer here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-modern-developer-tickets-59150165738

We are also running The Modern Developer Graduate, for graduates who want to get their great engineering habits formed well at the start of their career. 

Register for The Modern Developer Graduate here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/the-modern-developer-graduate-tickets-59150771550

If you’d like us to tailor or run this, or other courses, in-house at your company - please get in touch at rebootco.com.au/about

This week on The Weekly ReBoot another mini hack! Rock along to today’s episode of The Weekly ReBoot Podcast as we are learning about why it may be useful to take a big firey blowtorch to your backlog.

Burn it!

Lisette Sutherland is the creator of Collaboration Superpowers and the author of Work together anywhere. She was the keynote speaker at 1st Conf on the 28th of Feb and that kicked off a Tabar sponsored tour of Australia helping people to collaborate better from anywhere via her engaging workshops: https://www.tabar.biz/lisette

Lisette was an absolute delight to talk to, I learned a lot about how to rock remote working when I heard her talk at 1st Conf and during the interview, there’s just so many genius ideas she has captured about remote working and her team’s work spreads this knowledge to all corners of the globe. If you want to pick up tips from Lisette listen in! But also visit the website https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/ where you can access books, podcast and workshops to power your collaboration.

Her workshop schedule can be accessed here: https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com/schedule/ and many of them run on-line so you can learn about working together anywhere…anywhere!

This week on The Weekly ReBoot another mini hack! This time we talk about the five reasons why breaking things into small things make us perform better as a team, and why bringing that mindset (which is truly one of the key parts of an agile mindset) to everything you do, makes you a super useful asset for any team.

Discover why the best things come in Tiny packages!

Thanks to Dave Grohl for his contribution: Dave Grohl plays Tiny Dancer

Tom Varsavsky is the Chief Engineer of REA Group, the global force behind digital real estate giant realestate.com.au .

He oversees a community of over 600 technologists and represents tech at the exec level. It was great to talk to Tom about his adjustment to the role, what it takes to grow and sustain a high performing engineering culture and capability as REA has grown.

This weeks episode is a Mini Hack, the second in our Mini Hack episodes and it’s all about Visual working, just “Put it on a wall” please.

For full show notes go to: www.rebootco.com.au/podcast

Visit www.rebootco.com.au/podcast for more notes from this epsiode…

This is our first in a series of podcast episodes about The Poster. We created The Poster in response to the many frustrations we hear from our community and clients about how difficult it is to embed agility, adaptiveness and all the crucial elements that are needed to empower teams to deliver amazing outcomes for their businesses.

It contains what we think is everything important in terms of principles, values, practices, culture, and mindset for a great delivery transformation and better outcomes for your customers.

But we are often asked “Where and how do we start?” So we’ve created a series of posts and podcast episodes with insight and interviews to help people understand where to start, give a bit of context to the area and more guidance, we hope it’s going to be useful for a lot of people out there.

The first in our Poster Series deals with The Customer and how to get teams who build for them, close to them.

It features Indra Kilfoyle, illustrator of the poster and teamie at ReBoot Co.

See companion blog here: https://www.rebootco.com.au/blog/2019/2/2/every-team-has-a-customer

If you’re interested in submitting to 2019 Agile Aus Closer to the Customer stream go here: http://www.agileaus.com.au/getting-closer-to-the-customer/

Rowan Bunning joined us via Hangout in Sydney, we kindly gave up some time to talk to us about what he sees happening in the Agile community in Australia and Globally. Some of the anti-patterns we see in the trenches as well as what’s interesting in terms of new ideas, concepts, and books.

Here are some links referenced in the interview:

Scrum with Style is Rowan’s business and celebrated 10 years in business recently: Scrum With Style

Rowan is an organiser of Scrum Australia, you can sign up for the newsletter here: Sign Up

Have a look at some of their previous conferences talks and programs here: Scrum Australia