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Meet the team at Equal Experts North
Meet the team at Equal Experts North
In just three years, Equal Experts North has flourished – from an initial client engagement requiring just two of us…
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Equal Experts Hermes Case Study
Equal Experts Hermes Case Study
It’s a real pleasure collaborating with Hermes on their award winning Digital Futures IT programme. We’ve captured the…
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How legacy applications can thrive in an agile world
How legacy applications can thrive in an agile world
Breathing new life into how legacy applications are developed and supported can result in big savings, as well as…
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Pretty cool seeing KPMG Curve up on the big screen in Leeds today! We’ll be at the Leeds Digital Careers fair at Leeds Arena on Tuesday if you want…
Pretty cool seeing KPMG Curve up on the big screen in Leeds today! We’ll be at the Leeds Digital Careers fair at Leeds Arena on Tuesday if you want…
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𝗔 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝘅𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 The most limiting belief about anxiety isn't the…
𝗔 𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝘅𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 The most limiting belief about anxiety isn't the…
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It was a great night at the LDC Top 50 Business Leaders awards, held at BAFTA. Met loads of interesting folk and it's an honour to be included as…
It was a great night at the LDC Top 50 Business Leaders awards, held at BAFTA. Met loads of interesting folk and it's an honour to be included as…
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Coventry University
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Activities and Societies: I was driven to take on this research after delivering my first interactive web VR project at the end of my undergraduate degree. I wanted to see if eLearning could be more effective using VR. The research was part of the Car Design school, so I partnered with Haynes (http://www.haynes.co.uk/). The results were interesting
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I attended the SCRUM Master course and certification.
The course and certification helped by providing a framework and language that structured a lot of my previously gained experience and knowledge. It also provided a clear and simple language that has helped communicate the roles, artifacts and processes of an agile project to a whole project team. -
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Kaleidoscope NHS Video Widget Builder
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See projectWeb app that allows NHS and public to upload and categorise NHS experience videos in a simple way (much simpler than YouTube) and then allows NHS to generate widgets that play a chosen selection of these on their NHS website in various visual styles
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CMS for building websites with dynamic content types
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A CMS that enables creation of dynamic web apps supporting admin-generated-content as well as user-generated-content in the browser. Built on a concept of "content types", that means you can build into the site whatever content you want to define in the browser, such as "pages", "people", "news", "blogs", etc, etc...
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Community Website Builder
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A dynamic CMS for building communities with custom content types and behaviours, completely focused on the needs of each community
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Ufi Learndirect, Sheffield - eLearning Development
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Development of modular eLearning applications with ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0.
Custom Flash framework and SDK design and development, Flash eLearning engine design and development, accessibility, SCORM communication, XML and server-side communications.Other creators -
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Apex (Java)
Native or bilingual proficiency
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Ruby
Full professional proficiency
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JavaScript
Professional working proficiency
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Swift
Professional working proficiency
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HTML & CSS
Full professional proficiency
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AngularJS
Professional working proficiency
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Last week, I was honoured to co-host the launch of the exciting new Career Compass Leeds alongside the brilliant Kate O’Connell. Back at the…
Last week, I was honoured to co-host the launch of the exciting new Career Compass Leeds alongside the brilliant Kate O’Connell. Back at the…
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Excited and delighted to be joining Aegon UK as transformation delivery director from next week. Lots of great people, a great organisation going…
Excited and delighted to be joining Aegon UK as transformation delivery director from next week. Lots of great people, a great organisation going…
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Recap Health Prevent has started a 4-month digital pilot program today, in collaboration with MPFT and Staffordshire and Stoke ICB. This initiative…
Recap Health Prevent has started a 4-month digital pilot program today, in collaboration with MPFT and Staffordshire and Stoke ICB. This initiative…
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I was in a 1-1 with team member, she said she was going to work from another country for 6 weeks. She went on to explain why... I explain that it's…
I was in a 1-1 with team member, she said she was going to work from another country for 6 weeks. She went on to explain why... I explain that it's…
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Nikola Vojtek, PhD, PMI-ACP®, A-CSM®, CSPO®
🚀 To all my connections, I will be attending Scrum Alliance micro-credential course Agile OKRs, organized by Bojan Smudja on the 12th of September. This is the first official training that is combining metrics and Agile practices. 🆕 This course is designed to teach participants how to craft effective objectives and key results that dive alignment and strategy and support agile practices. 📢 If anyone is interested to join, please ping me directly for special conditions and benefits. #scrumalliance #agile #training #agilepractices #metrics #okrs #scrum
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Steve Trapps
🎉 Kick off 2025 with Agile Yorkshire's exhilarating January Meetup! 🎉 We’re thrilled to invite you to join us on Wednesday, 8th January, 2025, from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM at the fabulous Platform, New Station Street, Leeds LS1 4JB. Get ready for an inspiring evening filled with learning and networking! Whether you're a seasoned agile guru or simply curious to learn more, this event is your perfect chance to discover fresh ideas and connect with fellow agile enthusiasts. 🚀 What’s on the agenda? ✨ "What Happens in There..." by Tom Hoyland: Immerse yourself in team dynamics as Tom unpacks how human connections fuel success. He’ll share practical tools that will help you boost focus, creativity, and innovation in your teams. ✨ "Didn't You Read the Email?" by Bina Champaneria: Get ready to unlock the mysteries of effective communication! Bina will dive into overcoming language barriers, understanding various communication styles, and explore how AI is transforming the way we share and comprehend messages. Why should you attend? 💡 Learn:Acquire hands-on insights to elevate your agile practices. 🤝 Connect: Network with like-minded professionals who share your passion for agility. 🌱 Grow: Embrace the new year with fresh knowledge and motivation. Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to set the tone for an agile and successful 2025! 🎯 Secure your spot today by registering on Eventbrite. 👇 link in the comments We can’t wait to see you there! 🎈 Let’s make this the best year yet! 🎈 #AgileYorkshire #Meetup #Agile #Networking #Learning #Inspiration #TeamDynamics #EffectiveCommunication #Innovation #Focus #Creativity #AIinCommunication #ProfessionalGrowth #Community #Leeds #Yorkshire #2025Goals #AgilePractices #CareerDevelopment #Connect #GrowthMindset #Support #SkillsDevelopment #Leadership #ContinuousImprovement #AgileCommunity #TechEvent #Collaboration #FutureOfWork #Mindset #BusinessNetworking #PersonalDevelopment Oh and YES of course I generated the picture in AI!!! - I would never write the date like that!
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Alex K.
I find that the original appreciative inquiry 4D fluffiness is lost on many tech teams, and scrum masters dancing into the room with their stack of sticky notes, endless optimism and no less endless fluffy jargon are getting the compliance at best, rolling eyes and disengagement at worst. Context matters, people you work with matter, their mindset matters, unless a scrum master is there “to change the mindset,” whatever that means. Transforming the fluffy discovery -> dream -> design -> destiny to something more grounded like analyze -> design -> architect-> implement would land better in the tech world I am familiar with. #appreciativeinquiry #fluff #scrummaster
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Nigel Baker
Tomorrow on the Agile Network! Paul Goddard and I will give a presentation, so controversial it has been turned down by multiple conferences! Well, if I mean by "controversial" - I mean "didn't sound as interesting as it actually is when written down for a submission." It is on Pairing - The secret and forgotten Agile skill that could up your game... whoever you are! It is at 3pm BST and is exclusive to the network! Sign up now using my codes: One is a free month for people who purchase a monthly membership. The other is 20% off the annual membership. AGILEBEAR8CM - 1 Month Free AGILEBEAR8C20 - 20% off Annual Membership Link in the comments!
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Paul Lister
As it's Christmas (nearly) I thought I might tout my thoughts on Agility.. Over the UK Covid Lockdown period I write a book exploring the fringes of Agile methodology in series of blogs over a year. Exploring ideas like Lean, Scrum, XP, the Agile manifesto and team dynamics but using everyday experiences and media to do so. Entitled " Agile Keys for Locked down Cages" it can be found here: https://amzn.eu/d/0E9iBHV Mixing practical ideas such as: How to visualise context switching in teams. Creating Retrospective Icebreakers that actually mean something The lifecycle of an Agile mindset. With 'Off the Wall' articles explaining: Why Nic Cage would make a great Scrum Master. How Agility and Chaos magic use the same principles. The reason the author can't draw dogs. Why ignorance is a good thing! #csm #scrumalliance #agility #certifiedscrummaster #scrum #lean #niccage
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Paul Lister
As it's Christmas (nearly) I thought I might tout my thoughts on Agility.. Over the UK Covid Lockdown period I write a book exploring the fringes of Agile methodology in series of blogs over a year. Exploring ideas like Lean, Scrum, XP, the Agile manifesto and team dynamics but using everyday experiences and media to do so. Entitled " Agile Keys for Locked down Cages" it can be found here: https://amzn.eu/d/0E9iBHV Mixing practical ideas such as: How to visualise context switching in teams. Creating Retrospective Icebreakers that actually mean something The lifecycle of an Agile mindset. With 'Off the Wall' articles explaining: Why Nic Cage would make a great Scrum Master. How Agility and Chaos magic use the same principles. The reason the author can't draw dogs. Why ignorance is a good thing! #csm #scrumalliance #agility #certifiedscrummaster #scrum #lean #niccage
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Paul Lister
As it's Christmas (nearly) I thought I might tout my thoughts on Agility.. Over the UK Covid Lockdown period I write a book exploring the fringes of Agile methodology in series of blogs over a year. Exploring ideas like Lean, Scrum, XP, the Agile manifesto and team dynamics but using everyday experiences and media to do so. Entitled " Agile Keys for Locked down Cages" it can be found here: https://amzn.eu/d/0E9iBHV Mixing practical ideas such as: How to visualise context switching in teams. Creating Retrospective Icebreakers that actually mean something The lifecycle of an Agile mindset. With 'Off the Wall' articles explaining: Why Nic Cage would make a great Scrum Master. How Agility and Chaos magic use the same principles. The reason the author can't draw dogs. Why ignorance is a good thing! #csm #scrumalliance #agility #certifiedscrummaster #scrum #lean #niccage
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Paul Lister
As it's Christmas (nearly) I thought I might tout my thoughts on Agility.. Over the UK Covid Lockdown period I write a book exploring the fringes of Agile methodology in series of blogs over a year. Exploring ideas like Lean, Scrum, XP, the Agile manifesto and team dynamics but using everyday experiences and media to do so. Entitled " Agile Keys for Locked down Cages" it can be found here: https://amzn.eu/d/0E9iBHV Mixing practical ideas such as: How to visualise context switching in teams. Creating Retrospective Icebreakers that actually mean something The lifecycle of an Agile mindset. With 'Off the Wall' articles explaining: Why Nic Cage would make a great Scrum Master. How Agility and Chaos magic use the same principles. The reason the author can't draw dogs. Why ignorance is a good thing! #csm #scrumalliance #agility #certifiedscrummaster #scrum #lean #niccage
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Emad Ibrahim
Agile development teams aim to deliver working software frequently, from a few weeks to a few months, with a preference for shorter timescales. Read more 👉 https://lttr.ai/ASjai #EmphasizeFlexibility #ContinuousFeedback #Developers #Term‘AgileDevelopment #SnowbirdSkiResort #GlobalTechnologyFirm #LeverageCompetitiveAdvantages #LongDevelopmentCycles #MinimumViableProduct #AgilePrioritizesDirect
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Alistair Corrie
At #agile2024 in Manchester we got to meet and hear from the founders of DSDM and the Agile Manifesto. Two important elements of the story of Human Agility. Naturally we had various conversations about when Agile actually started. Here I trace human agility as far back as 1620 (yes, sixteen twenty). Next time I will take it back even further to pre-agricultural times. 😀 And then I will introduce Natural Agility or Natural Agile. I believe that we are born agile, and have it smothered as we reach our teens. Unplugging Agile from the Matrix is the work David Michel and I are doing on how to return to that state.
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Alan Craig
Are your Sprint Reviews just demos or worse, often canceled? It’s time to rethink their purpose. Discover how to transform your Sprint Reviews into dynamic, engaging sessions that drive real change. Watch my latest video to learn actionable strategies and insights! #AgileDevelopment, #SprintReview, #TeamCollaboration, #ContinuousImprovement, #Leadership
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Lavaneesh Gautam
Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of delivering the Scrum.org Professional Scrum with Kanban course in collaboration with TheScrumMaster.co.uk. This course covers - how Kanban can complement Scrum - How we can bring life to Scrum events - How we can make data-guided decision The course provides actionable insights, and our learners agree! A big thanks to Nick Sullivan for sharing this fantastic review. The highlight of the review for me is "the improvement i can bring into my teams." This encapsulates what the training is all about—focusing on actionable learning and real-world application, not just certificates.
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Leon Lodewyks
What is test maturity and why does it matter? Episode 4 of our podcast is now available. In this instalment, we explore the significance of recognising your position in the software testing maturity journey. We discuss various models that help in understanding or assessing this stage, as well as diverse strategies companies can employ to advance their software testing maturity. Inspired Testing Mathew Zungu Stephen Platten Mamatla Rantidi Jehan Coetzee Stephan Coetzee All episodes are available on Spotify as well. https://lnkd.in/e3GXVs6b #softwaretesting #podcast #testingpodcast #inspiredtesting
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Poline Marinho
Calm down... He doesn’t bite! 😂 Don’t be fooled by my little guardian's serious look! 🐶 He’s just waiting for you to join us for a chat about agility, Scrum, and digital transformation! How about taking a moment to learn and share insights on making teams more agile and collaborative? Let’s connect! Leave a comment or send me a message 📩 #Agility #ScrumMaster #DigitalTransformation #ProjectManagement #AgileLeadership #AgileMethodologies #IT #Innovation #HighPerformanceTeams
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Beren Van Daele
Next Thursday I'm doing a talk at Ministry of Testing's community of practice event on "Bringing Quality and Risk to the Organisation". Sign up for their event "The Practitioner". https://lnkd.in/eE5kTYMF I'll be covering: Firstly, why entrepreneurship, sales and marketing are new skills at least one tester in the company should have. Secondly, how bringing back risks to the wider IT process is key to showing testing's value as well as broadening your influence.
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Thomas W.
AGILE DOESN'T WORK. It never did. This article is why we do discovery. Proper problem/opportunity identification and definition is one of TWO major fail points in a research/design/build process of ANY KIND. But this is especially noteworthy in a huge iteration, pivot, venture, new-to-world innovation. When you distill Product Requirements down from Customer Requirements and Business Requirements, we design and build better, with more confidence and everyone contributes and creates together in harmony. When you skip this or suck at it, well then you run in circles attempting to validate poor design and development. That is where we find ourselves kids. We needed a study (one of many) of 600 engineers to determine that forced Agile cadences boasted a 268% higher fail rate? Ask yourself who is this news to? The current state of PM led 'anything', doesn't work. We keep trying to invent false realities wherein trade labor is somehow supposed to be design leadership. If you want to manage developers with this nonsense, go right ahead. But it has never worked for research, design or any facet of discovery work. Agile is a joke. Because a bunch of silly snowbirds sat around drinking in a ski-lodge 23 years ago and invented something that didn't need inventing, simply because they didn't know any better, doesn't mean it has value. Read Erik Meijer's article and mine from 2 years ago on the same subject in the comments. "The main reason why agile methods are popular is because managers think it means doing things faster." — Alan Cooper
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Scott Seivwright
Rapid share... longer one coming. (probably a newsletter) I will leave the Agile Alliance/Agile Business Consortium Conference in Manchester today. And it was one of the best conferences I have attended. Was it perfect? Of course not. We are in the middle of an economic recession, and the price-linked elements of Agile have collapsed. So, amid this, I was not expecting much, and there was a bit of doom and gloom. What I found was a vibrant and healthy community. The ideas and introspection on what we are doing, the quest to reimagine our work, and the side quests into exploring the Agile Business Consortium's new Agile Project Management and Sustainability framework are amazing. Peter Coesmans and Arie van Bennekum cut through the Agile bullcrap. Katie Taylor was amazing at holding it all together. My friend and inspiration, Dave Snowden , is going from strength to strength. It was so good to see Giles Lindsay (FIAP FBCS FCMI) and I'm looking forward to collaborations with him. It was great spending time with Jutta Eckstein and Seb Rose. Highlights for me included meeting Beven and doing a beer side quest. and of course Joanna Masraff 🌱 , Cass Van Gelder , and Suzanne Lagerweij were fantastic Kareoke company. Over the pond, Marjolein Pilon, Stuart Young , Heidi Musser , Ellen Grove , Alistair Cockburn, 🔑 Sanjiv Augustine 🎯 , Jon Kern , and Jim Highsmith being linked in. So... I am excited, eager, and feeling huge potential. If this is what Dead Agile feels like, I wish it had happened years ago! There is a humility and soul-searching that really suits the community now. And it feels stronger than ever and focused on its value to the world. It feels less about high-paid contracts and more about using Agile to change the world."
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