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16Jan
Big Room Planning: What is it? Why use it? And how to run one properly
So, what is Big Room Planning (BRP)? Big Room Planning is a really simple idea that’s extremely powerful. Basically, it’s all the teams and everyone else needed coming together (in a ‘big room...
07Nov
Is Jira making you LESS Agile?
Using Jira doesn’t mean you’re Agile, in fact, it could be stopping you from being as Agile as you could be. A common saying we use is that there is a big difference between “doing” Agile and ...
29Oct
How To Fix DEAD Standups
How are your daily standups going? Great? Or are they a little Shaun of the Dead? I’ve got some hot tips to turn around those dead, daily Scrums. Interested in becoming a Scrum Master? Check out...
25Oct
EPiC attends #JAFAC in Wellington
Last week, EPiC attended Nomad8 #JAFAC – a refreshingly different conference & unconference event! Insights that were straight talking, honest, frank, gritty, heartfelt and occasionally down...
22Oct
MMP vs MVP. What’s the difference?
What is an MMP? You’ve probably heard this thrown around the office and then googled it and then hopefully found this. We’ll get to that soon but first, let’s start with what an MVP ...
22Aug
Agile Mindset Hacks: A Game Called ‘Torpedo’
At the Melbourne Agile Transformation meetup last month, EPiC Agile co-founder Brad Bennett told attendees that you can enhance the agile mindset through gameplay. Games can model constructive or dest...
13Aug
Agile Mindset Hacks: A Game Called ‘Chair’
At the Melbourne Agile Transformation meetup last week, EPiC Agile co-founder Brad Bennett asked attendees “What is an agile mindset?”. After listening to answers for a while, he then reve...
19Jul
What is an un-conference? – EPiC Offsite Part 2/3
It’s a way of sharing knowledge that is of most interest to your group and making connections with like-minded people. For example, if you aren’t learning or contributing in a session, you...
15Jul
Improv Games – EPiC Offsite Part 1/3
Getting a team united and interacting can at times require a little something to get them going, using Improv Games is a great way for people to drop their guard and get the connections started. Our r...
05Jul
‘It’s okay to reduce productivity’ Top remote working tips from life coach Danielle Colley
“It’s okay to reduce productivity”. Life coach and founder of Your Good Life, Danielle Colley, shares the reasons why it’s okay to reduce productivity and focus on your childre...
25Jun
How ING is taking on the big four using Agile
ING has been a huge hit with Australians since introducing no ATM transaction fees and being heavily featured in the book The Barefoot Investor, which has sold over 1.5m copies. The author, Scott Pape...
12May
NO-BRAINER: Process vs Cultural Transformation
When it comes to Agile transformations, the difference in uplift between a process transformation and a cultural transformation are massive! So why aren’t companies focussing on cultural transfo...
15Apr
Find Your Career Path: Do The Things That Interest You
The Iconic‘s Head of Agility, Jody Weir, explains how she found her career path. This was filmed at the International Women’s Day 2019 – Women In Agile Afternoon Tea. You can watch t...
12Apr
Balancing Life Priorities? Focus On Your Crystal Balls
When The Iconic‘s Head of Agility, Jody Weir, was asked what her greatest career achievement was, she shared a story about rubber balls and crystal balls. “In our life, there are rubber ba...
24Mar
Put Your Retro Items In Your Backlog
Great! You’re doing retrospectives but don’t leave the action points sitting on a post-it note, put them in your backlog. Watch the below video to find out why. Watch the video…...
19Mar
It’s Not My Job! When Teams Don’t Act Like Teams
When someone in a cross-functional team says “That’s not my job, I just do this thing”, it usually indicates you have a problem with your Sprint Goals. Watch my video below to find o...
16Mar
Advice to my 13-year-old son: Own Your Vulnerability
I’ve recently given some advice for my 13-year-old son who is going through a tough stage at high school at the moment. You can also use this advice in a working environment as well. What I said...
14Mar
What is KANBAN? A video tutorial on what it is and how to use it.
If you’ve ever used business tools, Trello or Jira, then you have used elements of a kanban board. Kanban in its basic form is a visual management board that shows the progress of work. It was d...
10Mar
Watch a 5-day Google Sprint in 20 minutes
How does Google design world-class products? A New York Times bestselling book called Sprint by Jake Knapp, looks at the five day design process Google uses to do just that. ...
08Mar
When chips are better than the party for team moral
To get real momentum on team moral, smaller, more frequent gestures to your teams will be far more successful than one-off, big, grand gestures. The little things make the difference. The big launch p...
06Mar
Do what you can’t…
I love the video from Casey Neistat “Do what you can’t“. It has had a profound impact on me and what I think is possible. While it isn’t a book, it is a pretty great video and ...
04Mar
Lets Taco ‘Bout Employee Recognition
Using HeyTaco! a Slack-app plugin to design an employee recognition program....
01Mar
What to do when things get INTENSE in the workplace
Having family holidays to look forward to is important for mindfulness but being mindful in the workplace is asking others about their lives. In an intense workplace, spending time to have conversatio...
28Feb
Why you should have breakfast with your team
For Feel The Love Friday, I’d like to share a simple bonding experience the EPiC tribe have every week. We have breakfast together. It’s so simple but the benefits are incredible. For the ...
25Feb
Top three ways to run great workshops
The first tip I have for running a great workshop is to make it optional. If you force people to come to your workshop, they’re going to hate it and drag it down. Making it optional means the ri...
25Feb
What is culture-hacking and why should you care?
You can be super-smart at Agile and know everything about taxonomies and scaling but all that knowledge doesn’t always bring people together. There’s a movement called culture-hacking and ...
23Feb
How a high-five can help change people
I don’t think there’s one great technique to get someone to change. There’s lots! You need a kit bag full of them depending on who you are dealing with. One of my top three ways of s...
19Feb
How to transform a dysfunctional team culture
I recently helped turnaround a dysfunctional team and I thought I’d share what steps were taken in a bit of a how-to video. Watch the video…...
23Jan
Storytelling is vital for transformations
If you want to deliver a successful transformation, it isn’t enough to provide a transformation plan and tell people to change! You need to develop another capability that doesn’t come nat...
22Jan
Mindfulness & its relation to Agile
I was asked to talk about mindfulness and its’ relationship (if any) with Agile Delivery, during one of our recent, “Mindfulness Monday” segments. Here is the result: Watch the videoR...
21Jan
How to motivate your team to come to work
People comment about the EPiC team’s constant support for the EPiC brand and have stated that they seem to have all drunk pretty hard from the cool-aid. So, what is it that we do to motivate our tea...
20Jan
Getting Real – an influential read
A few years back I read an e-book by 37 Signals that had a profound influence on my project delivery, management and leadership decision making. Here I talk about it in more detail. Watch the video...
12Dec
Being a bridge, towards psychological safety
There was a group working on a portfolio of financial products that I was engaged to help. Upon exploratory conversations, there were two things that were quite obvious. The head of the group was disa...
11Dec
Make it a GIANT timeline retro
A favourite of mine has been a recent Giant Timeline Retro that I helped put together and run. The visual retro board was 10m by 1.5m, truly a visual treat and impressive spectacle, which in itself cr...