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Building a delivery framework for the government
Red Badger was asked to develop a delivery framework for the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). We delivered a framework incorporating multi-disciplined cross-functional teams, design thinking, data-driven decision making, continuous integration/deployment and continuous improvement of products and services.
Creating productive teams
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6 ways to build an unproductive product team
Sometimes knowing what not to do is as powerful as knowing what you should do.
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How mission thinking provides focus and accelerates growth
Whether or not your organisation is directly tackling humanity's biggest challenges, you're likely to benefit from a mission-thinking approach.
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At Red Badger, we recently hosted an event that brought together technology leaders from some of the UK's most well-known brands to discuss the role of clean coding in driving ...
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ON DEMAND VIDEO - Product Impact with Split
Red Badger HQ played host to the first digital-product.london event of 2023. The evening brought the community together to explore how to create continuous impact with your ...
Engineering for ambition with Adyen
The dramatic evolution of payments has driven customer demand for frictionless journeys across all touchpoints in store and online. The price for getting it wrong is hefty; ...
Why we love Split
All companies are digital product companies, whether they know it or not, and need to behave as such in order to keep up with the competition. Organisations need to have the ...
Mission thinking: embracing an experimentation mindset
Uncertainty has had an ever-increasing presence in our complex economic and social systems – and it's reached a new height with the Covid-19 pandemic. As we endure through these ...
4 key takeaways from Kanban Management Professional training
After recently attending Kanban Management Professional I and II training, I got some useful new language to help me explain some of the underlying instincts that I have around ...
One minute reads: forecasting with Little’s Law
John Little coined his eponymous theorem while studying queues – it links the rate at which customers enter a queue, the average wait each customer experiences, and the number of ...
7 steps to perfect retrospectives to align teams on shared values
Spend enough time working together in a team and you’re bound to encounter teammates feeling anxious, uninspired or just that general sense of something not being right at work. ...
6 ways to build an unproductive product team
An unproductive team can be the result of multiple factors, some of which from habits we may not even realise. Not only does building a productive team get the work done, it has ...
Designing for complexity: Delivery Framework for the Government
As part of our work with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Red Badger was asked to develop a Delivery Framework. Our recommendation was a bespoke ...
User-centred problem solving with Anthony Nolan
Red Badger’s social value task force started a dialogue with Anthony Nolan, the biggest blood cancer charity. They help save the lives of people with blood cancer and blood ...
Creating an Agile culture: Empowering teams for success
Let me give you a case in point. In our previous experience, companies offshore their software engineering activities in an attempt to cut costs. But despite the high levels of ...
5 reasons your Agile transformation is failing (and how to fix it)
The gritty, honest truth Ever sat through a talk or read a book extolling the virtues of agile delivery and thought this just doesn’t apply to my project, team or company? What if ...
Agile ways of working: the great leadership disconnect
While the majority of senior managers are keen on the idea of boosting organisational efficiency and improving customer focus by restructuring the way teams work, very few are ...
The influence of systems thinking on Agile
If one should do a word cloud out of the Agile literature one word that would be big and bold is 'pragmatic'. It is the essence of Agility, which is a response to prescriptive ...