Posts
On 12 December, 2025, around 50 practitioners and leaders gathered in Hilversum, The Netherlands, with a shared feeling that something in the Agile conversation had stalled. A…
Sandy Mamoli
Sandy Mamoli, originally a professional handball player representing Austria in the 1992 Olympics, transitioned into a technical role at Sony Ericsson after earning a master’s degree in Natural Language Processing. In 2007, she co-founded Nomad8 in New Zealand, establishing herself as an Agile Coach for companies like Trade Me, Snapper, and Southern Cross Health. A keynote speaker at prominent Agile conferences globally, she also co-authored Creating Great Teams in 2015, emphasizing high-performing Agile teams and self-selection.
Posts
Last year, the Reimagining Agile Launch Group was created to refocus Agile on its core values, explore its evolving role in organizations, and foster a global conversation abo…
Posts
The Reimagining Agile workshop at JAFAC was a remarkable event where the New Zealand Agile community came together to discuss, problem-solve, and envision the future of Agile.…
Posts
Back in 2003, when I first dipped my toes into the world of Agile, I had no idea that it would become such an integral part of my life. Two decades later, my passion for Agile…
Videos
This event occurred on February 13, 2024. There were two sessions with the same panel. This is a recording of the second session. You can find the first session here. Below is…
Videos
Here’s a radical idea: trust people to know best and let them decide which team they should work in. Let them self-select!
Self-selection is the simplest, fastest and most …
Initiatives
About this Agile Alliance Board Initiative
Reimagine Agility is an initiative to promote Agile and Agility by re-examining and clarifying the core values and principle…
Experience Reports
How I tried Holacracy and Lived to Tell the Tale.
1. FIVE KEY TAKEAWAYS
Holacracy provides radical transparency and timely decision making at the right level. Decision …
Experience Reports
We believe that the fastest and most efficient way to form stable agile teams is to let people choose their own team. This was a scary prospect when we first considered handin…
Experience Reports
In 2012 TradeMe began introducing Portfolio Kanban alongside workflow and team restructuring to solve problems it was having managing its project pipeline. This paper describe…
Event Sessions
This is the story of introducing Holacracy at a New Zealand tech company, whose CTO gave me a one-line instruction: “I’d like you to make it happen.”
Come along and learn fro…
Event Sessions
Stable teams have proven to be twice as productive as teams that are assembled and disassembled for specific projects and research shows that 60% of team effectiveness is attr…
Event Sessions
Inspired by Spotify's squads and Atlasssian's Ship-it day we let 90 people choose what they wanted to work on and who they wanted to work with. Through telling the story of Tr…
Books
People are happiest and most productive if they can choose what they work on and who they work with. Self-selecting teams give people that choice. Build well-designed and effi…
