Penned by Judy Rees here. If your bosses are desperate to drag you back to the office, that doesn’t mean they’re nasty people. They may not realise that online can be better than in-the-room; that relationship-building and innovation can work brilliantly when remote — and that the ways you’ve been…

Recently, I’ve been running reverse pilots on myself. Along with Joe Badman, we shared the what, why and how, here. In a nutshell, reverse pilots are the act of removing non-essential activities and seeing if it has any negative consequences. Originally conceived by Dan Shapero at LinkedIn, but I read…

Some call it The George Costanza Effect off the back of an episode of Seinfeld where George, who is regularly down on his luck decides that if all his instincts and decisions have led nowhere then maybe, he should do the opposite. You can watch the 2-minute clip below. https://youtu.be/1Y_6fZGSOQI …

In the last year, our (that’s Matt and Joe) roles have changed. In addition to delivering projects, developing products and services and building relationships with our really cool clients we’ve also taken on more responsibility for running different parts of the business. The thing is neither of us really took…

About a year ago, I documented my move from the UK to The Netherlands in relation to how my use of agile helped me cope. I reflected on 5 things that I learned. Since then, a year has passed and I’m afraid to say that some, not all, but some…

Today I achieved everything I promised and set out to do. I was a productivity machine! I ran an online session, progressed a project, submitted 2 proposals, spent time updating someone and got to inbox zero. I even started work an hour earlier (which is 2 hours when considering I’m…