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Boost. The power of positive impact

27 July 2021

Change for the better

Here’s our latest selection of news, tools, tips and ideas for ways you can make a bigger impact every day.

  • How you can go Agile in an instant
  • A process for change that puts your team first
  • What to expect when you test-drive Boost
  • The library of memes
Working at a Kanban board.

Agile in an instant

Kanban is an Agile framework that lets you go Agile in an instant. That’s because Kanban’s four principles mean you can start right away and its six methods then lock in iterative improvements.

4 principles of Kanban:

  1. Start with what you do now.
  2. Agree to pursue incremental, evolutionary change.
  3. Respect current process, roles, responsibilities and titles.
  4. Leadership at all levels.

6 methods of Kanban:

  1. Visualise.
  2. Limit work in progress (WIP).
  3. Manage flow.
  4. Make policies explicit.
  5. Implement feedback loops.
  6. Improve collaboratively, evolve experimentally.

Here’s how you can create a Kanban board and start today.

How to create a Kanban board and go Agile in an instant  →

Boost team members working guide to change. Click to view the PDF.

A process for change that puts your team first

As an Agile shop, we’re always looking to improve the way we work. Change can be challenging, so we've been looking for better ways to make these changes.

Recently we’ve been following a process laid out by Patrick Lencioni and transition expert William Bridges. 

We put together a quick two-page guide to the process and we thought some of you might find it useful too.

Paying attention to the period of transition

The process focuses on the needs of your team through the period of transition. That way you can make the change smoother and you’re more likely to achieve the desired results.

Change means people can lose aspects of the status quo that they’re attached to: things like feelings of control, a familiar structure or their own turf. The first part of our guide looks at the seven losses, and how to respond to them.

The second part looks at four ways you can guide people through the uncertainties of this period of transition, which Lencioni calls the neutral zone.

Here are Lencioni’s resources:

And here is our two-page guide:

Guiding your team through the period of transition (PDF)

Illustration showing the Test-drive Boost collaborative activities.

Applying for a job: what to expect when you Test-drive Boost

As we mentioned in the last newsletter, we’re currently recruiting designers and developers.

Job interviews are a bit different at Boost. You get to take us for a test-drive first so you can meet the team and see the way we work.

Because it’s a bit unusual, here’s a summary showing you what to expect from the process. We talk to someone who’s taken us for a test-drive, run through the process and show you how to succeed.

Our next Test-drive Boost hiring event is on: 19 August

Test-drive Boost — how you get a job with us  →

Look, a shooting star 2020 meme

National Library of Memes

Our friends at the National Library made the news earlier this month with their recent move to start collecting memes.

The collection started as part of a rapid response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This evolution of their digital collection work is a way of documenting how Kiwis have responded to a pretty tumultuous few years.

National Library's meme collection  →

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