Our most popular posts from 2021

Here, in case you missed any of them, are the most popular posts we published last year:

1. Retrospective ideas (and when to use them)

This collection of retrospective ideas gives you step-by-step plans for running each retro and guidance on the team situations and stages they are best suited to.

2. INVEST criteria for Agile user stories

Get a simple guide to the INVEST criteria for Agile user stories. This mnemonic shows you how to specify your requirements in ways that will deliver valuable software each iteration.

3. Welcome aboard retrospective — when new team members join

When new members join a team, you want to quickly get to full steam ahead. Boost Agile Lead Rebecca has designed a retro to help you do just that.

4. Create a Kanban board and go Agile in an instant

With Kanban, you can go Agile in an instant. Find out what makes Kanban tick and how you can create a Kanban board and start today.

5. Why small projects succeed and big ones don't

Learn how small projects reduce the risk and impact of failure and find out how to deliver big impacts by keeping your projects small.

Better jobs, better job interviews

Developers, have you been wondering how much better your job could be? 

Why not take Boost for a test-drive and find out. Because working well together is what makes Boost great, we don’t do your standard job interview. Instead we have collaborative hiring events. These give you the chance to meet the Boost team and to show off your own teamwork skills. It’s all part of our drive to be the happiest workplace around. 

What people had to say about our last test-drive event

“The most impressive interview experience I've ever had.”

“Exceptional…I felt very welcome, included and I thoroughly enjoyed the event.”

“Events like these take the edge off interviews. After a while I forgot that I was actually doing one.”

“Well done on pulling it all off so smoothly virtually!”

“Boost is awesome.” 

The details

Role: Software developers/engineers
Date: Thursday 20 January
Time: 6.00pm – 8:15pm
Mode: Virtual via Zoom

Latest test-driver to join the team

Lun Li is our latest collaborative hiring success story.

Lun likes sussing out how to make code as effective and robust as possible. He specialised in cyber security at Vic Uni and, unlike many developers, loves debugging. “It’s a really rewarding experience when you get that code working,” he says.

The Test-drive Boost event gave him the chance to see what makes Boost tick.

“What really attracted me from the first event was the values, the way we look to have a positive impact. It makes you feel good about the work you’re doing.

“It’s been an awesome first month. I’ve been learning so much. And I really joined at the right time because of all the Christmas parties.”

The summer holiday didn’t stop him coming into Boost.

“Me and Nat started a sewing club. We came in over the break, brought in all our sewing supplies and just cracked away,” he says. “It’s great to be crafting something that’s tangible.”

Upskill to keep up with change

To thrive in these turbulent times you need to be able to adapt to change.

Because the various Agile methodologies are all specifically designed to help you respond to change, they’ve really come into their own these days.

If you’re looking for Agile training to give yourself the edge, check out our Agile Professional Foundation course.

We’ve designed the course to give you the solid grounding in Agile you need to be able to put it into practice straight away. It sets you up to be more resilient, productive and happy in your work.

Dates: Monday 14 – 17 February
Times: 9 to noon
Certification: ICAgile
Mode: Virtual via Zoom

The trick to sticking to New Year’s resolutions

The Harvard psychologist and author of Emotional Agility offers this tip: Rather than phrasing them as “I have to…”, phrase them as “I want to…”.

You can find out how and why the one-word switch works in this TED Ideas article: