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