The value of asking

I think we all know the concept of the saying – there are no stupid questions. The idea being that any question that can be asked, should be okay to be asked. However, through experience, I still hear many, many people say: okay, this might be a silly question...

Growing a great team

One of the AgileLabs team found a great article by Eduards Sizovs, which they shared with us. You can read the whole thing at https://sizovs.net/2019/04/10/the-best-developers-are-raised-not-hired/ . The article is about the difference between teams who try to...

What’s beyond your team’s horizon?

It always fascinates me looking at old maps of the world, drawn based on the observations of the early explorers. These maps are often very accurate – for the regions the explorer had visited – and yet many of them show the world as having an edge, where...

The definition of insanity

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the results to change” We love this quote, from Albert Einstein – it’s so obvious when you think about it, however we often see software teams who are doing exactly this, and...

Offering Capabilities

When we’re building a product for people, we are hopefully offering them something that helps them with the things they want or need. Our product will have things that it can do, and using these will help our users meet their goals. Within AgileLabs we call the...

Working towards Goals

On a day to day basis when building a product it’s really helpful to be working towards some kind of objective or goal, to stay focused. How you think about these goals can make a big difference though.  For us, a goal is a short-term focus on an...

Eating the dog-food

The expression “eating your own dog-food” is about using your own product, so that you see first-hand the same thing your customer does. This is a really powerful approach, and definitely worth doing! The aim should always to to build products that, as a...

Welcome to the Agile Labs blog!

Well hello, and thank you for checking out the Agile Labs blog! We hope you enjoy reading our articles, and that they can help you in some way. Please share your thoughts and feedback, we’d love to hear from you! At Agile Labs our mission is to help teams to...