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title: 5 tips for better brainstorms, visualising risk, fun at NDF & more – Boost News 4 December 2018
description: This issue of Boost News shows you how to supercharge your brainstorms, visualise and manage risk, and get discounts on Agile training. You’ll also learn what happened at the National Digital Forum conference and learn about our new resource.
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How to get discounts on Agile training, supercharge your brainstorms, and visualise and manage risk.

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| Spotting and dodging technical risks When you work with interlinked systems, the more you know about the technical fragility of each system the better. This case study — the latest post in Boost supremo Nathan D’s risk management series — looks at a simple Agile way you can make technical risks clear and visible, making them easier to manage. Risk transparency: Smells, Meteors & Upgrades Board case study Fun at the National Digital Forum Congratulations to the crew behind the NDF conference held at Te Papa last month. Everyone I’ve spoken too said they found it fun, informative and inspiring. Don’t despair if you couldn’t make it though — the talks are already going up on the NDF YouTube channel. We had lots of entries for our competition to caption this festive image from the Alexander Turnbull Library’s Manuscripts & Pictorial collection. The winning caption was: No wonder Santa has such a massive sack! Well done Krista. We hope you enjoy your victory feast at Hippopotamus. Discount reminder for the Agile Professional Foundation If you’ve been to our free two-hour Introduction to Agile workshop, don’t forget you can get a 15% discount on our ICAgile-certified Agile Professional Foundation course. Just email james@boost.co.nz if you’ve forgotten your promo code. The Agile Professional Foundation is a two-day Agile immersion course. Training in a working Agile development studio, with coaches who run Agile projects every day, you’ll get to see how Agile works in the real world. Fun, interactive activities show you how to put Agile into action in your day-to-day work, empowering you to deliver more value, sooner. Learn more or book the Agile Professional Foundation Preview the course on YouTube More resources for more impact We’ve updated our popular Resources page to include our brand spanking new product ownership resource. It’s a one-stop guide to making Scrum work for you, based on tips, tools and examples from working Product Owners. Boost’s Guide to being a Kick-ass Product Owner Random walks — 5 simple tips for better brainstorms This much-watched TED talk from researcher Marily Oppezzo shows how going for a walk before a brainstorm session makes you measurably more creative. We’re thinking of making it a part of our brainstorming for things like project kick-offs and Google design sprints. Check out our popular guides to effective Project kick-offs and Google design sprints. Want to be more creative? Go for a walk —five-minute TED talk from Marily Oppezzo Old News is good News Check out the Boost News archive for all our past issues. You’ll get oodles of ideas and resources to help you deliver more each day. Plus, if you’re not a subscriber, you can sign yourself up. Browse the Boost News archive Sign up for Agile Professional Foundation - our next course is 10–11 December. Get the skills to deliver successful projects that deliver more value, faster. Email: info@boost.co.nz Phone: +64 (04) 939 0062 |
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