Nick Foard

After 3 years of almost exclusively working on Notion and Miro I had to use MS Word today. OMFG I had forgotten just how much of a frustrating creator of wasteful activity it is. It messed with my fonts, page breaks, it deleted sections when I saved, it d…lnkd.in/g_K99Cmt

While working with my Coaching team SkyCity Entertainment Group this week I found myself having to stop, take a breath and remind them why we come to work everyday. Let's take a moment to reflect on the essence of our roles as Agile Coaches. While there a…lnkd.in/gc2CDTyP

As an Agile coach, I firmly believe that to fully comprehend the essence of Agile, it is crucial to dive into the source material and frameworks that preceded and contributed to the Agile manifesto. Agile didn't emerge out of nowhere, it built on a rich h…lnkd.in/gNYW-CQu

I have always hated the term "Digital" as for me, as an 80's kid I just think of my Casio digital calculator watch and my digital space invaders handheld game. Recently I was thinking about what Digital Maturity really means. Lets face it, any organisatio…lnkd.in/gHK3bkts

Congratulations to the ICT teams at SkyCity Entertainment Group on reaching the impressive milestone of completing 100 Scrum Sprints! This is a significant achievement that demonstrates their commitment to Agile and Scrum values and principles and their a…lnkd.in/g6ahEwxj

Reposting purely because watching this video reminded me of the days when I wrote deployment plans as part of team releases. Sure working solutions are valued more than comprehensive documentation but when it comes to deployment plans, sometimes you do ne…lnkd.in/gWT_u29f

If you haven't tried some of the Retro Templates in the Miroverse I can highly recommend this Simpsons one from Samuel Ortega. We just used it for my Coaching team's Retro, and it was a lot of fun, while also driving us to discuss items raised, and most…lnkd.in/gvfw-H43

I have always been very aware that with metrics you get the behaviour that you measure. For example, measure the amount of check ins a developer does per day to measure developer performance and the number of checkins might go up and the amont of code per…lnkd.in/d7GB8Ukh

Decided to have a play with ChatGPT today. chat.openai.com I wanted to know what Agile would look like as a Christopher Nolan Movie. Would you go watch this movie? My Question - Hey ChatGPT can you explain what Agile would look like as a Christo…lnkd.in/gZS8G4iG

I love a fun retro, and if you haven't discovered the Miroverse yet where have you been? If you coach with remote or hybrid teams there are some really fun retrospective templates to get everyone set up for the event and have some fun along the way. Check…lnkd.in/gNM9a4_X

Recently our Group CIO at SkyCity, Glen McLatchie was interviewed for CIO magazine. I have shared a link to it below as I really enjoyed watching it, hearing our story as told by one of our leaders. Glen shares some of his though…lnkd.in/gJNJptiT lnkd.in/gXTna7mR

I love posting on LinkedIn but I also want somewhere that my Posts are easy to access and refer to all in one place so I have used and old friend called Blogger to capture some of my posts. I will continue to post in LinkedIn but also in Blogger too becau…lnkd.in/g7rGaqN7

I did a lunch and learn at work today about the Opportunity Canvas. In updating my toolkit I did some googling for fresh examples and found a great site by Laura Klamot who shows examples not only of what was built but also the com…lnkd.in/g52czFJ5 lnkd.in/gKSaXwD3

More Laws of Agile, today is everyone's favourite, Conway's Law. “Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.” I have certainly experienced and w…lnkd.in/gQnnhtGd

There are quite a few Law's that underpin Agile, lets start with Gall’s Law — “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.”  Almost every product you use these days have some le…lnkd.in/g7nKR37g lnkd.in/gbaBg8JE

I'm excited to let everyone know that I'm staying in the same job, because there is lots of really cool, challenging problems to solve and awesome people to help and every day is different! Ok so I'm having a little bit of fun with this post but why not…lnkd.in/g4TAiHfQ

I have had a lot of people approach me recently asking "how do I become an Agile Coach?" A lot are looking for a career change or to progress from Scrum Master to Agile Coach. Every Coach I know got there a different way. I am not…lnkd.in/gPmGgAeV lnkd.in/gv7VBywy

Asynchronous Daily Scrums, hot new thing or a great way to avoid face to face contact? If you are still doing Scrum the same way you were last year, maybe you haven't identified continuous improvement opportunities at your Retrosp…lnkd.in/g4CRXzvE lnkd.in/gZaVjvRf

An interesting observation at end of sprint today, a number of teams didn't factor in well the Queens Memorial day and the 2 Big Room Planning days mid sprint, which created a similar burndown chart shape across teams that I will call the "Ayres Rock Burn…lnkd.in/gfTNRee2

Shameless promotion alert! I did a talk this week with the Agile Auckland meetup that was about increasing analytical thinking in Agile Teams. Agile Auckland kindly filmed the virtual session and its uploaded to YouTube here. If yo…lnkd.in/gFCg2tfT lnkd.in/gRYwRjUZ