We're very excited to share that Equinox IT has been announced as the winner of the 'Azure Innovate Award' during the Microsoft Partner Awards in Auckland on Friday night!

This article is republished from Rowan's original Scrum Masters are struggling with remote working post on the Scrum WithStyle website.

Adapting to change has become personal

The Scrum Master role was already hard enough. Then the COVID-19 pandemic sent us home from the office and suddenly Scrum Masters are trying to lead team development between people scattered around homes and office locations who interact mainly via text in instant messaging. This sudden change from face-to-face to hybrid or all remote challenges Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches and other Agile leaders to adapt to the change. Data that we collected last week revealed that many of us are still struggling with such adaptions.

During July we ran an 'IT and digital learning' survey to help participants think about their own and their teams' IT and digital career aspirations, learning paths, and COVID-19's impact on these. At the same time we were keen to continuously improve how we help IT and digital professionals and teams learn in a rapidly changing world.

Equinox Training is offering a 50% 'New Start' discount off selected courses for IT workers who have lost their job as a result of COVID-19. The training will provide valuable learning and skills as they look for their next position.

This article is republished from my original GitHub's transformation from Git repo site to enterprise development platform post in LinkedIn.

When most people think of software development, they think of a developer or team writing code for an application and publishing it. In other words "plan, build, test and deploy" all in that order. Having worked on both sides of the table being the customer asking for a tool and being part of the development team offering solutions I have come to the conclusion there are very few projects that are actually that simple.