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Australian / Indian Team learnings: Cultural Conversational Styles: A Case of ‘Feet first or wait patiently?’

We've been doing a lot of team building activities recently. One question I get asked a lot is, "How can I work more effectively with my team mates in country 'X' ". Most likely for me it's Indian and Australian teams. One of the most common observation's is: "Oh, they're so quiet, how can I get them to speak up?" Or, "Person 'Y" is so rude, they never listen to anything I have to say" I'll give you 5 seconds to work out which side of the Indian ocean the 'stereotypes' above are sitting.  If you’re working in a team with both Australian and Indian colleagues, you’ve probably seen this play out. A generalisation: 🇦🇺 Australians tend to see interruptions and sentence-finishing as a sign of engagement. It’s how they collaborate—building on each other’s thoughts in real time. 🇮🇳 Indian professionals often wait for a clear break in conversation before speaking. It’s a sign of respect and active listening.  Neithe...
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A survey on release processes with organisations that 'sef-identify' as folowing agile practises.

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Earlier this year I ran a survey around ‘release processes’ specifically with companies that follow agile practices. I promised that I would publish the results and apologies for the delay, I have collated the responses below. Thanks to everyone that participated, really appreciate your time and energy. At iflix we're always looking to improve our release processes so it was really great to get so many good responses. We learnt we're not that far apart from our peers out there. We've got a lot to learn of course, some of that comes from hearing from others and some from the mistakes we make. The trick is to make your mistakes small ones and learn fast with minimal disruption to your customers. This survey was run at least 5 months ago, so it’s a snapshot in time.  Most places I have worked change their processes (inspect and adapt!). I've reproduced the responses in their entirety, so it is a bit of a long read. I’ve anonymised the responses somewhat, retaining ...
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