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The Elevation of Privilege (EOP) game is designed to help you easily and quickly find threats to software or computer systems. Until now, considering a system from an attackers’ perspective was hard to wrap your head around. The game helps you identify attacks within a six category framework and is intended to be picked up and used by any development group. Agile Stationery are very pleased to be hosting a session on EOP at the Leeds Digital Festival on 25th April where we will play the game, and see how it works in practice. Gwen Diagram will share tips and...

No, we’re not talking about Brexit, we’re talking about collaborative and open plan workspaces that encourage you to move around the workspace and work where and when you like. We are all familiar with these workspaces today. They are great at encouraging innovation, attracting talent and are just fun places to work. They create a buzz, empower employees and there are many anecdotes and surveys that confirm the attraction and benefits of a great workspace over a “dull” more traditional one. The talent always heads to the cool, agile and collaborative workspace. The core of a collaborative open-plan workspace is...

Organisations are increasingly being presented with various degrees of rapidly rising uncertainty and complexity in their environments. But how do you know which approach you should use in a particular situation? And how can you avoid making the wrong decision?Devised by Dave Snowden of Cognitive Edge, Cynefin is a decision framework that aims to help individuals and teams understand that every situation is different and requires a unique approach to decision making.Dean Latchana has invented a game to help teams understand how they can apply the Cynefin framework. The workshop will help you understand how to put situations into five...

We are very pleased to have Ben Linders present a one day workshop on 'Improving Organizational Agility'.In the workshop Ben will take you through a number of exercises to help you learn how to apply agile throughout your organization in order to develop the right products, deliver them faster with better quality, and improve organizational agility!Many organizations are going through agile transformations. They are implementing Scrum or Kanban and using large-scale agile frameworks like Lean, SAFe, LeSS or DAD, hoping to better serve the IT needs of the business and to develop products that satisfy their customer’s needs. Unfortunately, those...

Back in December, Cyber Security firm Redscan published a report, based on FOI responses, showing that the NHS was apparently under investing in cyber security resources and training. The NHS takes a lot of flak in the press, sometimes deservingly and sometimes not. I was struck by the fact that every time this news was reported the story quoted the Redscan report but not the NHS. I do not know if the NHS were asked to comment on the report, the articles did not say, but I would certainly understand if the NHS were not willing to engage in a...