FFS I am not a resource
This is a paraphrasing of a talk I gave at FFS Conf Down Under in February 2019. This is about…
“It’s 2017, WTF are you doing at an agile conference?”
Why would anyone go to an agile conference in 2017? As someone involved in organising an agile conference or two,…
Don’t just build the thing right – Build the right thing
This is a paraphrasing of a talk I gave at the 2016 Melbourne CTO Summit. My Story Right now I’m…
Automating Android apps with Robot Framework and Appium
As part of the DevFoundry event this week, I proposed to do some basic test automation of an app using…
LAST Conference is coming to Sydney
LAST Conference has been running in Melbourne for five years and this year, for the first time, it's coming to…
A one day offsite for leadership teams
This week I held an offsite for my engineering leadership team. My two aims were to do some formation activities…
The team that learns together stays together
I prefer to build long-lived teams where the same people stay together over an extended period of time. I believe…
Culture gardening
"Get the right people on the bus, the wrong people off the bus, and the right people in the right…
Agile Australia 2016 – submit now
The advisors and chairs of Agile Australia 2016 conference themed Towards the Agile Country are looking for real stories of…
Measuring happiness
As sometimes happens, I wanted to answer a question on Twitter but couldn't do it justice in 140 characters. The…