A place for musings on agile delivery and teamwork

May 4, 2020

What would a great onboarding experience look like?

When I joined Surevine my onboarding experience was fantastic, but I wanted to see if there was anything more we could do to make it even better, so back in June I asked twitter what would a great onboarding experience look like?

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Ian Ames in Inspect and Adapt

Oct 28, 2019

Reflections on MapCamp 2019.

This year I was finally able to attend MapCamp 2019 with ~600 other people at Sadlers Wells Theatre, London…

Ian Ames in Inspect and Adapt

Oct 16, 2019

The 10 things I learnt from remote working

This post was originally published on the surevine blog.

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Ian Ames in Inspect and Adapt

Feb 26, 2019

Story Crowdsourcing game

Emily Webber recently asked if I could run an 8-minute workshop to energise people at the beginning of her regular…

Ian Ames in Inspect and Adapt

Jun 22, 2018

How our digital team works .

I’m the Delivery Team Lead for a small multi-disciplinary team in government. We are developing the service…

Ian Ames in Inspect and Adapt

Oct 12, 2016

5 reasons open plan offices suck for agile teams.

I recently gave a presentation at the inaugural Tech Exeter conference called Practical agile: Lessons learned the hard way on our journey delivering digital products. In that presentation I claimed open plan offices are terrible team spaces…

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Ian Ames in Inspect and Adapt

Sep 15, 2016

Are sprints sustainable?

I’m the scrum master for a small team developing a new service for a government agency. The team has been working in an agile way for 21 months. I have been with them for 16 of those months.