Hireup is an NDIS-registered online platform that empowers people with disabilities to find, hire, and manage support workers who share their interests while emphasizing choice and control. The document discusses the alignment of Hireup's mission with the principles of the NDIS and Agile methodologies, highlighting the cultural shift towards individual empowerment in service delivery. Ultimately, Hireup aims to facilitate a good life for individuals with disabilities through self-management and support.

1. Choice and Control
How Hireup’s Empowering Vision Aligns with
Agile’s Principles Driven Culture.

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3. Takeaways
● Understand what Hireup does
● Understand principles of the NDIS
● Explore how Hireup, the NDIS and Agile principles align

4. Wag: like Uber
but for dogs

5. Start-up
Mash-up

6. And the winner is:

7. Hireup is an NDIS
registered online
platform for people with
disability to find, hire and
manage support workers
who fit their needs and
share their interests.
What is Hireup?

8. Hireup is like
_____________
for _________ .
Hireup is an NDIS
registered online
platform for
people with
disability to find,
hire and manage
support workers
who fit their
needs and share
their interests.

9. These are good but there is
one super critical distinction.

10. Hireup Support Workers
are employees.

11. What does this have to do
with Agile?

12. Javascript or
90s Boy Band?

13. 1. Nsync

14. 1. Nsync is
a 90s Boy Band

15. 2. Enyo

16. 2. Enyo is a
Javascript
framework

17. 3. C-Note

18. 3. C-Note is
a 90s Boy Band

19. And the winner is:

20. What is the NDIS?
“Rather than disability service providers being paid by
state governments to support individuals - people
would get money from the government directly to
spend with the providers that they chose. This was a
crucial change – it meant power would rest with
people and not the providers, giving people with
disability choice and control: two things they’d never
had before.”
Kurt Fearnley quoting Bruce Bonyhady, the first chair of the NDIA Board- in
A Nation Changed Podcast

21. NDIS or Agile?

22. 1. Choice and Control

23. Choice and Control is one of
the goals of the NDIS
Overview of the NDIS Operational Guideline - About the NDIS | NDIS
https://www.ndis.gov.au/about-us/operational-guidelines/overview-ndis-operational-guideline/overview-ndis-operational-guideline-about-ndis
1. NDIS

24. 2. “This is a massive,
massive cultural change
and organisational change”

25. “This is a massive, massive cultural
change and organisational change”
Jenny Macklin MP
2. NDIS
https://hireup.com.au/post/episode-one-a-nation-changed-kurt-fearnley/

26. 3. “Adaptation becomes
more difficult when the
people involved are not
empowered or
self-managing.”

27. “Adaptation becomes more difficult when
the people involved are not empowered or
self-managing.”
Scrum Guide © 2020 Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. This publication is offered for license
under the Attribution Share-Alike license of Creative Commons.
3. Agile

28. 4. “Innovation, quality,
continuous improvement,
contemporary best practice
and effectiveness”

29. Innovation, quality, continuous improvement,
contemporary best practice and effectiveness
Overview of the NDIS Operational Guideline - About the NDIS | NDIS
https://www.ndis.gov.au/about-us/operational-guidelines/overview-ndis-operational-guideline/ove
rview-ndis-operational-guideline-about-ndis
4. NDIS

30. 5. “The best architectures,
requirements, and designs
emerge from self-organising
teams.”

31. 5. Agile
“The best architectures, requirements, and
designs emerge from self-organising teams.”
Beck, K., et al. (2001) The Agile Manifesto. Agile Alliance. http://agilemanifesto.org/

32. 6. Dignity of Risk

33. 6. NDIS
Dignity of risk is about respecting the rights of
people with disability to assess the risks
associated with their decisions and actions.
https://help.hireup.com.au/hc/en-us/articles/360018697212-Code-of-Conduct-for-home-ca
re-and-support-workers

34. 7. “Give them the
environment and
support they need”

35. 7. Agile
“Build projects around motivated individuals.
Give them the environment and support they
need, and trust them to get the job done.”
Beck, K., et al. (2001) The Agile Manifesto. Agile Alliance. http://agilemanifesto.org/

36. 8. “Make safety a
prerequisite”

37. 8. Agile
“Make safety a prerequisite”
Modern Agile
https://modernagile.org/

38. And the winner is:

39. That was hard!

40. Both value individuals and interactions.
Agile
Empowered
Self-organising teams
Give people the
support they need
Make safety a
prerequisite
NDIS
Choice and Control
Massive cultural change
Innovation
Continuous Improvement
Dignity of Risk
NDIS and Agile

41. In summary

42. To enable the pursuit of
a good life for everyone.
.
Hireup’s Purpose

43. enable people with
disability to exercise
choice and control in
the pursuit of their goals
and the planning and
delivery of their supports
(section 3(1)(e));.
The NDIS Act details the objects, or goals,
that the NDIA is striving towards:
https://www.ndis.gov.au/about-us/operational-guidelines/overview-ndis-operational-guideline/overview-ndi
s-operational-guideline-about-ndis

44. Build projects around
motivated individuals.
Give them the
environment and
support they need,
and trust them to get
the job done.
One of the Principles from the Agile Manifesto
Beck, K., et al. (2001) The Agile Manifesto. Agile Alliance. http://agilemanifesto.org/

45. I think we are on the same page.

47. Appendix

48. What is the cultural change?
The cultural change is a power shift. The way the
NDIS is funded allows people with disabilities more
choice and control over their lives.
Previously funds were given to agencies who
distributed the money to people with disabilities.
Now the funds go directly to the individual and they
have control on how to spend them.

49. What’s the massive
organisational change?
“More than 7 years on, the NDIS is now
available across Australia. More than
400,000 Australians with disabilities are
accessing support through the scheme –
more than one third of those for the very
first time. It’s one of the greatest social
reforms in Australia’s history.”
Kurt Fearnley - A Nation Changed Podcast

50. Choice and Control
We believe that people with disability should have
total choice and control over their supports. We've
designed the Hireup model to ensure that people with
disability decide who they work with, when they want
their bookings to happen and how they would like
their support delivered.