Equinox IT Blog
Beating Burnout: What to do if you think you're burned out
22 February 2024
Beating Burnout: Mythbusting and taking action
19 February 2024
Beating burnout: What it is and what causes it?
13 February 2024
15 January 2024
How to manage your Imposter Syndrome
18 September 2023
Imposter Syndrome Or: Am I doing it right?
11 September 2023
31 July 2023
25 July 2023
20 July 2023
Why are you solving other organisation's problems?
29 August 2022
A Better Breakfast with DevOps
22 August 2022
Forget DevSecOps and DevTestOps - your DevOps should have these baked-in
18 August 2022
STOP funding projects, START funding products
15 August 2022
Equinox IT Expands Capabilities with Principal Consultant Appointments
03 August 2021
Reseller Women in ICT Awards 2021
09 July 2021
Our 'Azure Innovate Award' winning work with Fulton Hogan in snazzy video case study!
08 June 2021
Kirsten Eriksen appointed to Equinox IT Principal Consultant role
03 May 2021
5 things we learnt from working in the health sector
25 March 2021
GitHub 3.0: Interview with Steve Fargher
23 February 2021
Women in IT: Interview with Kirstin Donaldson
16 February 2021
Equinox IT wins 'Azure Innovate Award' at Microsoft NZ Partner Awards!
30 November 2020
Scrum Masters are struggling with remote working
18 November 2020
'IT and digital learning' survey findings 2020
02 September 2020
GitHub's transformation from Git repo site to enterprise development platform
20 July 2020
Equinox IT and Tasktop partnership unifies DevOps teams and tools
24 June 2020
Equinox IT's Aravindh Rajagopalan recognised as a winner at '30 Under 30 Tech Awards'
23 June 2020
Equinox IT becomes first NZ GitHub Verified Partner
10 June 2020
The core of wellbeing, productivity and health in uncertain times
11 May 2020
What you're feeling? - that's probably normal
06 May 2020
Transform your team's behaviour with a working agreement or culture canvas
01 May 2020
Equinox IT's Bill Ross appointed as NZ DASA DevOps ambassador
30 April 2020
Sustaining our new ways of working
08 April 2020
How strong team foundations are helping to provide business continuity
31 March 2020
Remote working is all about the people
30 March 2020
Using basic prioritisation rules to improve self-organisation when working from home
30 March 2020
Managing anxiety in these unprecedented times
24 March 2020
Staying connected to our work and colleagues
23 March 2020
How visual workflow management can help your team collaborate remotely
23 March 2020
Collaborate to Innovate - 5 tips to help you and your team work-from-home
23 March 2020
Equinox IT adopts new client-centric Co-CEO model
17 March 2020
Who manages the overall product picture? - Certified Scrum Meetup
21 February 2020
Overcome the challenges of the ScrumMaster role - Certified Scrum Meetup
28 November 2019
DASA - introducing a framework for DevOps success
16 August 2019
Equinox IT becomes DASA DevOps Training Partner and Forerunner
24 July 2019
Advancing Scrum Master skills to help realise the promise of Agile
09 July 2019
Presenting on digital business analysis at IIBA meet-up
26 June 2019
Advancing as a Scrum Master or Agile Coach with Rowan Bunning
14 June 2019
Helping your team try new Agile practices
29 April 2019
Ideas for growing Agile and DevOps in your organisation
16 April 2019
How assembly-line thinking is hurting your DevOps teams
11 April 2019
Increasing the speed of your DevOps teams
28 March 2019
How Lean can help DevOps teams be more responsive
13 March 2019
Introducing Lean thinking to DevOps
26 February 2019
Sharing our consultant's learning - December 2018
18 December 2018
Reducing delivery time by limiting work in progress - Projects and Agile community of practice
12 December 2018
Running Azure DevOps events with Microsoft in Wellington and Auckland
05 December 2018
Learning about Agile leadership and culture from Michael Sahota and Audree Tara
30 November 2018
'Scrum in 10 minutes' at Certified Scrum Meetup
09 November 2018
Presenting on multi-factor authentication at OWASP meet-up
02 November 2018
Presenting on Lean-Agile budgeting for Projects and Agile community of practice
30 October 2018
Key concepts you need to consider before starting that Agile transformation
18 October 2018
October Certified Scrum Meetup - sprint carry over, water-scrum-fall...
11 October 2018
Kicking off the 'Certified Scrum Meetup' in Wellington
13 September 2018
10 traits of effective IT leadership
31 August 2018
Change always fails - Lean Change brings a new way
28 August 2018
Kicking off the 'Projects and Agile Community of Practice'
27 August 2018
Sharing our consultant's learning - August 2018
09 August 2018
Presenting on Serverless Computing - your next step in Cloud
24 July 2018
Presenting at ITx on moving from legacy to the future
19 July 2018
Leading Agile coach Kirstin Donaldson joins Equinox IT
17 July 2018
Presenting at ITx on the role of Project Managers on Agile projects
17 July 2018
Interview: Rowan Bunning on Advancing the ScrumMaster role
04 July 2018
IAG New Zealand's Daniel Scott-Raynsford presents on their journey to the cloud
07 June 2018
Equinox IT hosts NZRise fireside chat with Privacy Commissioner John Edwards
17 May 2018
Sharing our consultant's learning - April 2018
26 April 2018
David Reiss appointed to Equinox IT General Manager, Cloud and Auckland
24 April 2018
Why you need a damn good Product Owner for your Agile project
23 April 2018
The changing CIO role - an Equinox IT hosted CIO panel discussion
20 April 2018
Getting an IT Project Manager or Scrum Master role with no IT experience - there's no silver bullet
10 April 2018
Sharing our consultant's learning - March 2018
29 March 2018
Carl Weller presents on Agile leadership roles - where do Project Managers and Scrum Masters fit?
28 March 2018
Simon Bennett presents on why the Responsibility Process® is key to Agile success
15 March 2018
Sharing our consultant's learning - February 2018
15 February 2018
Lots of 'doing Agile', not much 'being Agile'
13 February 2018
Can you attend Certified ScrumMaster without Agile experience and will it help you get a job?
17 January 2018
'The secret to high performance' recorded webinar with Michael Sahota
12 January 2018
Sharing our consultant's learning - December 2017
13 December 2017
Rowan Bunning presents on how culture is shaping your Agile
01 December 2017
Interview: Michael Sahota on Agile leadership and high performance organisations
21 November 2017
Sharing our consultant's learning - November 2017
16 November 2017
Hiding columns on a VSTS sprint board
14 November 2017
Michael Sahota presents on delivering a high performance Agile organisation
19 October 2017
Sharing our consultant's learning - October 2017
13 October 2017
Feature Toggles on a .Net Core API
05 October 2017
Feature Toggles for Angular UIs
03 October 2017
Automatically Logging PowerShell in to Azure
19 September 2017
Adding personas to work items in VSTS
14 September 2017
Setting up Requirements in VSTS
12 September 2017
MicroServices for a small island
11 September 2017
Dave Snowden presents to Equinox IT clients on Cynefin and complexity
01 September 2017
29 August 2017
Chris Buxton presents on Statistics New Zealand's IT recovery journey
24 August 2017
Sharing our consultant's learning - August 2017
15 August 2017
Continuous Performance Testing – What prevents you from doing it?
26 July 2017
Changing columns on a VSTS sprint board
06 July 2017
04 July 2017
Make the team go faster, we've got so much to do and so little time!
27 June 2017
Equinox IT appointed Government Web Services Panel member
18 May 2017
Recorded webinar: 'Agile Leadership - Interactive Q&A' with Michael Sahota
17 March 2017
Chris Nikitas and his 'Certified Agile Leadership' London experience
24 February 2017
'Inviting Organisational Growth' videoed meetup with Michael Sahota
14 February 2017
If 'organisational agility' was a movie and you were the hero(ine)...
02 February 2017
Stop focusing on Agile practices - Start focusing on leadership!
13 January 2017
The 4th and final day of Microsoft Ignite
02 November 2016
28 October 2016
27 October 2016
First day of Microsoft Ignite NZ
26 October 2016
25 October 2016
The role of Scrum in digital transformation - part 2
20 October 2016
The role of Scrum in digital transformation - part 1
18 October 2016
28 September 2016
Partnership to help New Zealand businesses transform
30 August 2016
Digital transformation leader moves to Equinox IT
22 August 2016
Customers vs consumers - do you make a distinction in your analysis?
18 August 2016
Do Waterfall and Agile hybrids make sense?
10 August 2016
Business analyst techniques for uncovering customer needs
03 August 2016
Building the digital backbone for transformation
29 July 2016
13 July 2016
Overcoming your legacy system Achilles’ heel when transforming your New Zealand organisation
06 July 2016
The role of IT in the digital transformation of New Zealand organisations
30 June 2016
16 June 2016
Introducing Agile in Government - part 3: Getting the Kanban board right
15 June 2016
Introducing Agile in Government - part 2: Implementing Kanban
03 June 2016
Introducing Agile in Government - part 1: Assessing current state
25 May 2016
How do you pick the best IT services company for your specific delivery needs?
19 May 2016
Moving from Waterfall to Agile, mid-project
12 May 2016
Vital Business Systems: When is bad performance good, and when does that change?
10 May 2016
What should you expect from your IT service provider?
10 May 2016
Dependency Inversion vs Dependency Injection vs Inversion of Control vs Programming to Interfaces
05 May 2016
Agile requirements analysis and specification for a mobile application
03 May 2016
Legacy system replacement - strangling a big ball of mud with microservices
28 April 2016
Answers to your Scrum and Agile project management questions
27 April 2016
3 Key take outs for writing better user stories
26 April 2016
IT services in solution delivery – How do you get the best results from your provider?
21 April 2016
Troubleshooting an Oracle UCM Batch Loader performance problem
20 April 2016
Enhancing continuous delivery with blue-green deployment
19 April 2016
Does cloud eliminate the need for performance testing? Short answer: ‘No’!
15 April 2016
Does the Certified ScrumMaster course cover scaled Agile?
14 April 2016
Part 3 – Performance monitoring Microsoft Exchange in production
12 April 2016
12 April 2016
The important role Scrum bubbles play in Agile project success
07 April 2016
Part 2 – Performance testing Microsoft Exchange using Jetstress and Load Generator
05 April 2016
Can I get a job as a business analyst in NZ by undertaking a course or certification?
05 April 2016
What are the barriers to adopting Scrum in the business and how do you overcome these?
31 March 2016
The performance risks with Microsoft Exchange
30 March 2016
Agile development – the importance of discipline
29 March 2016
Can ‘Scrum everywhere’ be taken too far?
16 March 2016
Part four: Gotcha! Pinpointing a browser performance problem under Citrix
08 March 2016
Cross-platform DevOps with Visual Studio events in Wellington and Auckland
08 March 2016
Scrum everywhere with Joe Justice - Adopting Scrum outside of technology teams
03 March 2016
Part three: Target sighted – is Citrix causing the performance problem?
02 March 2016
What benefits does a strong business case provide for an IT project?
25 February 2016
How to pick the right IT consulting company in New Zealand
24 February 2016
Part two: Following the trail to performance problems in front of the webserver
23 February 2016
The Scrum Product Owner challenge that may be affecting your project
16 February 2016
Finding the haystack: troubleshooting a hard to find software performance problem
15 February 2016
What makes an effective business case?
09 February 2016
What is performance testing and why does it matter?
08 February 2016
What is the purpose of a business case and when would you use one?
02 February 2016
Developing New Zealand’s IT skills to build a better future
28 January 2016
As an IT consultant you need to know more than information technology
26 January 2016
Blab: How do NZ organisations maximise the opportunities from DevOps and Bimodal IT?
21 January 2016
Blab: How do DevOps and Bimodal IT play together?
19 January 2016
Blab: What does Bimodal IT mean in a New Zealand context?
14 January 2016
STOP! Read this before you suffer another unproductive business meeting
12 January 2016
Blab: What does DevOps mean in a New Zealand context?
06 January 2016
Blab: What are the biggest things you need to focus on during Agile adoption?
23 December 2015
Your roadmap to becoming a master business analyst
22 December 2015
Agile architect - 7 lessons for becoming a damn good one
17 December 2015
Blab: What benefits can you see from fantastic Agile adoption?
16 December 2015
Using Specification by Example to become a better business analyst
15 December 2015
Blab: What are the most common Agile adoption problems?
10 December 2015
Blab: What does a half-hearted Agile adoption mean?
08 December 2015
Picking the right Kanban software - Visual Studio vs JIRA vs Trello vs LeanKit
04 December 2015
Agile architecture – How do you apply it in practice?
01 December 2015
How do you run defect management on Agile projects?
26 November 2015
Can model-driven architecture be used on Agile development projects?
24 November 2015
Equinox IT’s Paul Ramsay recognised by IIBA
24 November 2015
How do you make architectural decisions on an Agile project when you have no architect?
23 November 2015
Agile architecture - Where does an architect fit in a Scrum sprint?
20 November 2015
It’s the digital economy, stupid
19 November 2015
How to determine the capacity of story points for a Scrum sprint when velocity is unstable
17 November 2015
Digital disruption - The nature of the firm and the rise of the unicorns
13 November 2015
Agile backlog - The most badly implemented, yet most critical, technique on your project
11 November 2015
Digital disruption - What are we actually talking about?
06 November 2015
Deane Sloan appointed to Equinox IT General Manager Wellington
04 November 2015
Scrum Master as servant-leader - The difficulty of wearing two hats
03 November 2015
Digital disruption and other 21st century challenges
29 October 2015
JIRA and Trello user stories - how to customise and print them
27 October 2015
Conquering Excel to build a Monte Carlo simulation for Agile project estimation
21 October 2015