Increasing the productivity of your teams
All entrepreneurs seek to have productive teams that serve the interests of their business, this seems obvious. But when you want to see this productivity increase, where do you start? Passionate people You first need to hire passionate people. We often tend to forget that motivation can be both extrinsic …
Experiencing lousy “dailies”? Five tips for successful daily scrums!
You and your team are you like “Yeah! It’s Scrum time” or “Ah! this darn meeting… again”? For teams adopting Agility, the daily meeting used to review the status and list the day’s activities is sometimes a reflex that is not easy to acquire. Even worse, it is sometimes considered …
You said DevOps?
For some time now, I have been hearing about DevOps and I think that this notion deserves to be clarified, if only for me. There seems to be a varied understanding and use of this expression and I think it’s important to take time to define its bases and to …
Evolving as Scrum Master
To be a successful Scrum Master, you must develop your own approach, your own way of doing things. Here are the Scrum Masters’ responsibilities: Make sure that the team is completely functional and productive within the Scrum process Foster collaboration between all roles Protect the team from external interference Guide the …
The Agile organization – White paper
More and more teams are now using the Scrum and Lean approaches. It is therefore interesting to sketch the guidelines of what may be an Agile organization. In this white paper, we will discuss the specific aspects of an Agile organization, the strategies to be implemented, and how Pyxis can …
Iterative and incremental personal development
Since I have discovered Agile approaches, I’m drawing more and more parallels with other fields than IT. At first glance, nothing surprising: many Agile values are applied to other business fields. However, I realize that, in fact, certain principles can actually go as far as to influence my private life …
On the production of original content
In a domain like ours, it’s important to establish our individual and collective credibility. It is also important to maintain this credibility by showing initiative and creativity on a sustained basis. To do this, different avenues are open to us. One of them is the creation of unique and relevant …
Agile Marketing
Agile approaches value individuals and interactions over processes and tools, greater customer collaboration, and responding to change over following a plan. First intended for software development, these values may be applied to other business fields. In many ways, the new business realities are in line with these principles that promote …
Discount code for DevTeach
Did you fail to register for the DevTeach conference before March 1st to benefit from the $600 discount? Here is the Pyxis discount code that will get you a $100 off your registration: MTL0000PYXIS. During the DevTeach conference, don’t miss the presentations of our Pyxissians: Steffan Surdek with “The silent …
Stratégies PME 2016
Pyxis /studio sera de nouveau présent à l’événement Stratégies PME les 25 et 26 novembre prochains au Palais des congrès de Montréal. Cet événement incontournable réunira un grand nombre d’experts et plus de 90 conférences seront présentées. Celles-ci traiteront de sujets allant de la gestion stratégique jusqu’aux ressources humaines en passant par le marketing et les …