Are your teams
in a fuddle?
Not working together towards common goals? Overloaded and not able to meet commitments? Quality output not living up to the gold standard you strive for? Unfuddle can help!
Are your teams
in a fuddle?
Not working together towards common goals? Overloaded and not able to meet commitments? Quality output not living up to the gold standard you strive for? Unfuddle can help!
Smooth out your process
What got you here, might not get you there. Are your teams not firing on all fours? Are the approaches you were using yesterday not working today? Are you biting off more than you can chew?
Unfuddle can help kick things up a gear, realign and tune your team for today’s challenges.
what we do
We’ve been round the block quite a few times in the past 20 years. During that time, we’ve helped dozens of companies nudge their teams in the right direction.
We help teams focus on what really matters – adding value, reducing toil and improving their engineering practices. Helping teams adopt modern approaches and frameworks such as Agile, Lean, Scrum and DevOps we are able to give your teams a new toolbox to work with.
What makes us different, when we work with teams, we work hands on. We challenge teams with their approaches in breaking down work, scoping requirements, estimating the complexity and effort of their work, improving delivery and identifying where they are stuck and not delivering value.
No matter where your teams are, we can help get them to the next level.
Sit and talk
Roll up our sleeves
We’re in this together. We will work with you and your teams to come up with what works best for each team looking forward towards your vision and goals. We have workshops that we can run with your teams can do to help them understand Agile, Lean, Scrum and different ways to approach their day-to-day work.
Shine and reflect
We’ve worked hands on with your teams, let’s give them room to move and show you what they are capable of – they’ve got a new toolbox now! We normally move into a passive mode and periodically check in, if you’d rather we can stay on and provide guidance on incremental improvement.
It’s about thinking and working differently in today’s competitive environment. Think different.
It’s about thinking and working differently in today’s competitive environment. Think different.
how it works
Agile
Why wouldn’t you, maybe we’re bias?
For numbers people: the 13th Annual State of Agile Report saw a 71% increase on the uptake of Agile within companies in order to reduce project costs. Having an iterative approach to delivery changes how you look and respond to your work.
Unfuddle will implement practices that streamline your approach.
Scrum
Implementing Scrum techniques such as daily stand ups, sprint planning and retrospectives help communication and comprehension, process flows and the ability to manage changing priorities – all of which can have financial impacts on any business.
Unfuddle have trained dozens of Scrum Masters and Teams through hands on and collaborative workshops.
DevOps
It might feel like a buzzword but we’ve seen more teams that embrace Agile and Scrum end up moving towards DevOps practices without even knowing it. The 2019 State of DevOps has found there are five stages of DevOps evolution: Normalisation, Standardisation, Expansion, Automation and Self Service.
If you or you’re team are somewhere in side that and don’t know where to go Unfuddle can help direct you on your journey.
We find that people think Agile and Scrum are technology things, it has been found that while over 25% of the technology industry uses Agile methods, 19% come from a Financial Services, 10% from Professional Services, 8% from Insurance and 6% from Government.
why YOU need unfuddle?
Proven track record
All bar one of our clients have come from referrals over the last decade, I’ll admit, helping architect New Zealand’s Kiwisaver B2B architecture for IRD was an exciting opportunity.
Experience
Flexible
Proven track record
All bar one of our clients have come from referrals over the last decade, I’ll admit, helping architect New Zealand’s Kiwisaver B2B architecture for IRD was an exciting opportunity.
Experience
Flexible
who we’ve unfuddled
Here are just a few:
The Unfuddle Team
Tim Philips
Tim’s background in the Internet Services and hosting market brings a unique set of engineering experience and capabilities. Having lead a start up of one of New Zealand’s fastest growing hosting companies in the early 2000’s to helping one of the largest ICANN accredited registrars and hosting companies on the global stage he’s helped teams think differently, embracing Agile, Lean, Scrum and DevOps.
Jaime Philips
Jaime was one of the early team members at Trade Me where she helped establish a solid base for customer service then on to do the same in the testing and QA space. Since leaving Trade Me she has helped several of our clients think and approach testing and QA differently, helping them understand the value solid QA brings. She also helps several clients design, launch and manage electronic marketing campaigns.
Tim Philips
Tim’s background in the Internet Services and hosting market brings a unique set of engineering experience and capabilities. Having lead a start up of one of New Zealand’s fastest growing hosting companies in the early 2000’s to helping one of the largest ICANN accredited registrars and hosting companies on the global stage he’s helped teams think differently, embracing Agile, Lean, Scrum and DevOps.
Jaime Philips
latest unfuddle posts
Creating/extending a Certbot Python plugin using Docker
Recently I needed the ability to dynamically create certificates for domains hosted on cPanel....
Misaligned Incentives Fuel Organisational Dysfunctions
"When there is an incentives mismatch, a lot of energy can be expended." Nick makes a lot of very...
We need a product manifesto!
Some of the highest performing teams we have worked with are focused with a Product Engineering...
The Five Dysfunctions of an Engineering Team
A great translation of Patrick Lencioni's The Five Dysfunctions of a Team into the technology world. One I see often is "ideas aren’t openly discussed, there is very little buy-in from team members,...
Using Google’s 8 Innovation Principles in your Startup
✅ Focus on the User✅ Ideas Can Come from Everywhere✅ Think Big, but Start Small✅ Never Fail to Fail✅ Spark with Imagination, Fuel with Data✅ Have a Mission that MattersTick, tick, tickity...
Maintaining Urgency
A sense of urgency is something we encourage when working with teams. This isn't about going fast and cutting corners, it's exactly as Aviv says: Questioning, avoiding over engineering, looking...
8 Signs your Agile testing isn’t that Agile
A fantastic article explaining the approaches of testing and quality assurance in an Agile world. #agile #qualityassurance #testing
Modern Testing Principles
Testers as coaches Improving the release cycle Continuous improvement Quality culture
We’ll give you a hint: “Testing is everyone’s responsibility”
One thing we push for when helping to reorganise and formalise testing & QA in teams is "testers are coaches". Testers should coach the entire team to think and act with a testing first mindset.
