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How do participants feel about annual reteaming?

We’ve found people like having influence over which team they are part of during annual reteaming, but being involved has it’s challenges.

4 min readApr 19, 2021

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How do participants feel about annual reteaming?

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Reteaming FAQ and an offer to help

Questions we’re commonly asked about self-selection reteaming at Redgate and an offer to help you plan your own process

6 min readMar 9, 2021

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Reteaming FAQ and an offer to help

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How did our first remote annual reteaming go?

This post shares the results of our annual self-selection reteaming process and how we had to adapt the activity during a national lockdown

6 min readJan 27, 2021

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How did our first remote annual reteaming go?

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What was the impact of Level Up Week 2020?

What did Redgaters make of Level Up Week 2020, our virtual company L&D conference, and did it have the impact we were hoping for?

7 min readDec 15, 2020

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What was the impact of Level Up Week 2020?

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Level Up Week 2020: How we evolved our internal tech conference for our remote-first world

How we turned our internal tech conference into a virtual, global company event bringing Redgaters together to focus on L&D and reconnect

12 min readDec 8, 2020

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Level Up Week 2020: How we evolved our internal tech conference for our remote-first world

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Product Development Reteaming at Redgate

In January Redgate will undertake another self-selection reteaming process. This post explains why we’ll be doing that and how we’ll do it

6 min readNov 20, 2020

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Product Development Reteaming at Redgate

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Wellbeing and cohesion hacks from our newly remote teams

Last week, members of our 12 dev teams got together to explore the practices and behaviours making a difference in our newly remote teams.

4 min readApr 28, 2020

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Wellbeing and cohesion hacks from our newly remote teams

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Forget dumb productivity measures & focus on software delivery performance with Four Key Metrics

Find out how the Four Key Metrics from the book Accelerate help us track software delivery performance and drive continuous improvement

5 min readApr 8, 2020

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Forget dumb productivity measures & focus on software delivery performance with Four Key Metrics

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How Redgate ran it’s first team self-selection process

This post explains in detail exactly how Redgate ran it’s first formal team self-selection process, from initial planning to completion.

11 min readSep 22, 2019

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How Redgate ran it’s first team self-selection process

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Team self-selection (without the anxiety)

Attracted to the idea of allowing people to decide for themselves what team they work on but anxious about what might happen? We were…

12 min readSep 17, 2019

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Team self-selection (without the anxiety)

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Chris Smith

Chris Smith

Chris is Head of Product Delivery at Redgate. His job is to lead the software development teams that work on Redgate's ingeniously simple database tools.

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