Equinox IT
Equinox_logo trans
  • HOW WE CAN HELP

    How we can help

    • Business Change
      • Business Analysis
      • Solution Architecture
      • Digital Transformation
      • Quality Assurance
    • Cloud Transformation
      • Cloud Strategy and Planning
      • Cloud Architecture
      • Cloud Migration
      • Cloud Workload Transformation
      • Cloud Value Optimisation with FinOps
      • Kickstart Cloud
    • DevOps and Agile
      • DevOps and Agile Adoption
      • Agile Coaching and Scrum Mastery
      • Automation and CI/CD
      • Application Modernisation and Software Development
      • GitHub Verified Partner
    • Managed Services
      • Equinox Managed Services
      • Cloud Managed Services
      • Application Support Managed Services

    in-person

    Training

    We offer training for individuals and teams. Learn from facilitators with real-life consulting and technical experience.

  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT EQUINOX IT
    • GOVERNMENT PANELS
    • OUR TEAM
  • INSIGHTS
  • JOIN THE TEAM
  • GET IN TOUCH
  • HOW WE CAN HELP
    • BUSINESS CHANGE
    • CLOUD TRANSFORMATION
    • DEVOPS AND AGILE
    • MANAGED SERVICES
  • ABOUT US
    • ABOUT EQUINOX IT
    • GOVERNMENT PANELS
    • OUR TEAM
  • INSIGHTS
  • JOIN THE TEAM
  • GET IN TOUCH

Equinox IT Blog

Six ways to manage the hidden AI costs

09 July 2025

The power of one: why Unit Economics matters in the cloud

08 July 2025

Cloud spend is the new power bill – but who is watching the meter?

07 July 2025

FinOps – lifting the bar on the value of cloud

12 March 2025

Microsoft just opened an Azure region in New Zealand. Here are some advantages of Microsoft Azure for New Zealand businesses

12 December 2024

You write insecure code with AI

15 August 2024

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

Don't hire unicorns—Make them

15 January 2024

How to manage your Imposter Syndrome

18 September 2023

Imposter Syndrome Or: Am I doing it right?

11 September 2023

Culture change

31 July 2023

IT culture

25 July 2023

People, not resources

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

Reseller Women in ICT Awards 2021

09 July 2021

Five things we learnt from working in the health sector

25 March 2021

GitHub 3.0: Interview with Steve Fargher

23 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

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 becomes first NZ GitHub Verified Partner

10 June 2020

The core of wellbeing, productivity and health in uncertain times

11 May 2020

Transform your team's behaviour with a working agreement or culture canvas

01 May 2020

How strong team foundations are helping to provide business continuity

31 March 2020

Remote working is all about the people

30 March 2020

Equinox IT adopts new client-centric Co-CEO model

17 March 2020

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

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

Key concepts you need to consider before starting that Agile transformation

18 October 2018

Ten traits of effective IT leadership

31 August 2018

Interview: Rowan Bunning on Advancing the ScrumMaster role

04 July 2018

Why you need a damn good Product Owner for your Agile project

23 April 2018

Getting an IT Project Manager or Scrum Master role with no IT experience - there's no silver bullet

10 April 2018

Can you attend Certified ScrumMaster without Agile experience and will it help you get a job?

17 January 2018

MicroServices for a small island

11 September 2017

Too many fluffy agile bunnies

04 July 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 role of Scrum in digital transformation - part 2

20 October 2016

The role of Scrum in digital transformation - part 1

18 October 2016

Are you sick of Shadow IT?

28 September 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

The future of IT business analysis – moving from ‘what the business needs’ to ‘what the customer needs’

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

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

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

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

Three key take outs for writing better user stories

26 April 2016

Enhancing continuous delivery with blue-green deployment

19 April 2016

The important role Scrum bubbles play in Agile project success

07 April 2016

Agile development – the importance of discipline

29 March 2016

The Scrum Product Owner challenge that may be affecting your project

16 February 2016

STOP! Read this before you suffer another unproductive business meeting

12 January 2016

Your roadmap to becoming a master business analyst

22 December 2015

Agile architect - 7 lessons for becoming a damn good one

17 December 2015

Using Specification by Example to become a better business analyst

15 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

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

Using Agile practices to manage project risk

09 September 2015

How do you start a business analyst career in New Zealand?

12 August 2015

How much do IT consulting services cost in New Zealand?

30 July 2015

Public training vs in-house training – what’s best for your IT team?

21 July 2015

7 Agile development problems Large-Scale Scrum helps you overcome

16 July 2015

IT business analyst – what you need to be a damn good one

14 July 2015

Using Large-Scale Scrum for scaling Agile development

13 July 2015

The essence of a great IT consultant

09 July 2015

IT contractor or IT consultant - what's the right path for you?

07 July 2015

Use modern software development practices, whether you’re Agile or not

25 June 2015

Getting outside your comfort zone makes you a better IT professional

23 June 2015

Am I on an Agile project? – A litmus test

18 June 2015

Do Agile teams really need a single Product Owner?

16 June 2015

What all Business Analysts ought to know about documenting reporting requirements

11 June 2015

The five Cs for clarity of thought for business analysts

09 June 2015

What makes a damn good solution architect?

06 June 2015

Equinox IT celebrates 20 years

16 April 2015

The problem with optimising the software development process

11 March 2015

What would life look like if I didn't have glasses? - The importance of accessibility

04 March 2015

Do you need to learn Scrum?

17 February 2015

Should you move your software development team to Scrum?

16 February 2015

Can you apply Lean software development principles to Scrum?​

19 December 2014

Working on multiple agile development projects and swarming tasks​

19 December 2014

​What is the better Agile method – Kanban or Scrum?​

19 December 2014

5 models to help your New Zealand organisation become a digital superstar

19 September 2014

Overcoming the challenges to successful cloud adoption in NZ

12 September 2014

Change or die - the changing role of IT departments

08 July 2014

Five cloud integration challenges NZ organisations face and how to solve them

25 June 2014

Four steps to becoming a New Zealand IT hero

16 June 2014

5 ways to be a better agile business analyst in New Zealand

12 May 2014

Agile development business analysis Q&A

12 May 2014

How do you set up an agile software development project infrastructure?

12 May 2014

What is the difference between a Scrum product owner and an Agile business analyst?

12 May 2014

Can agile software development be used if you don't have developers on site?

12 May 2014

Will analysing complex requirements in short agile sprints result in requirement errors?

12 May 2014

How can agile business analysts incorporate feedback in a controlled way?

12 May 2014

The key benefits and costs to Agile software development

12 May 2014

7 ideas to successfully adopt Agile in your New Zealand software development team

08 April 2014

Use ATDD agile development requirements on any project

20 March 2014

Five key challenges to using cloud computing

06 March 2014

Three fundamental questions for achieving clarity as a business analyst

12 February 2014

What to consider when architecting for mobile application development

07 February 2014

Understanding IT Capability with SFIA

15 November 2013

Three Fundamental Reasons You Should have an IT Training Plan

15 October 2013

True agility - how I learned to stop worrying and love ScrumBut.

15 October 2013

Equinox IT first IT consulting company signatory to CloudCode™

17 September 2013

Understanding the options for the next generation enterprise

04 September 2013

What is a digital ecosystem?

14 August 2013

Key takeouts from attending Certified Scrum Product Owner training

14 August 2013

Solution architecture diagrams

10 May 2013

Becoming a Certified ScrumMaster

24 April 2013

Business Analysis: The Case for a Business Rules-Driven Approach

16 April 2013

Five Agile development lessons from the lego sprint competition

05 April 2013

A risk based testing approach for business intelligence reporting solutions

27 March 2013

Kanban boards, done columns and work in progress limits

13 March 2013

The importance of cross-functional teams on Lean-Scrum projects

22 February 2013

Equinox IT becomes Microsoft’s first NZ gold partner for the application lifecycle management competency

29 January 2013

Bespoke vs COTS in software development

26 November 2012

Transitioning to true agile development

31 October 2012

PRINCE2 and Lean Startup: A principled approach

09 September 2012

Use of integration patterns in batch scenarios

31 July 2012

Scrum meeting checklists: Version 2.0

26 July 2012

Governing innovation - You get what you plan, manage and measure

13 June 2012

The secret to gaining a better understanding of your information technology

24 May 2012

Appointment of Equinox software development director – Deane Sloan

18 November 2011

How Forsyth Barr was able to quickly restore business operations following the Christchurch earthquake

03 November 2011

Using a problem countermeasure board to overcome repeating agile development impediments

23 August 2011

What the heck does a solution architect do anyway?

05 August 2011

Stick to your lean software development principles to DELIVER your goal

22 July 2011

Software testing metrics - defect removal efficiency (DRE)

18 July 2011

Non-functional requirements and system qualities - closing the chasm

07 July 2011

Enterprise Analysis - using business architecture to clarify the muddle (Part 2)

29 June 2011

Enterprise analysis - using business architecture to clarify the muddle (Part 1)

29 June 2011

Essential testing metrics

26 June 2011

Using a working agreement in your agile development team

17 June 2011

Scrum meeting checklists

18 April 2011

Using a Kanban board as visual control for your Scrum project

11 April 2011

Agile Excel story templates for backlogs and release planning

17 February 2011

Using business rules to create a better software development lifecycle

07 January 2011

The Procrustean IT governance model

07 January 2011

Using clarity to build trust as a business analyst

15 December 2010

Dealing with the irrational stakeholder as a business analyst

26 November 2010

What is Application Lifecycle Management or ALM?

28 October 2010

Five Tips for Producing a Quality Solution Architecture

11 February 2010

Certified Scrum Master - Don't get left behind

21 July 2009

Agile software development projects on time, on budget

29 October 2008

Equinox IT

Phone 0800 378 466

International callers +64 4 499 9450
PO Box 10168, Wellington 6140

Send us an email

Wellington
  • Level 5
    Equinox House
    111 The Terrace
    Wellington 6011
    New Zealand
Auckland
  • Generator
    12 Madden Street
    Wynyard Quarter
    Auckland 1010
    New Zealand
Southland
  • Riverton 9881
    Southland
    New Zealand

© Copyright Equinox Limited. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy