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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
26 June 2011
Using a working agreement in your agile development team
17 June 2011
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