Using the Westrum typology to measure culture
Having a culture of collaboration where people feel safe to share their views and work across a diverse group is…
Latest Posts
Why all the Jira hate? I’ll tell you why
I've recently retweeted a few tweets which weren't exactly complimentary about Jira. For example: Plenty of good things happened at…
The power of coffee
Reading this article recently, an interesting theory about coffee was raised: The time of day people drink their coffee varies…
Building a learning culture on a budget
This is a paraphrasing of a talk given at the 2015 CTO Summits in Melbourne and Sydney. Think about the…
Date for your Diary: CTO Summits in Sydney & Melbourne
Coming up soon are this year's Sydney and Melbourne CTO Summits presented by Yow and Wheelhouse. My topic is on…
Blameless Postmortems
This is a paraphrasing of a lightning talk I gave at our internal DevOps conference on Blameless Postmortems. Due to…
Get rid of all the managers
This is a paraphrasing of my talk from Ignite Sydney. The five minute format means this is necessarily lacking in…
Consumer-driven contracts with Pact and PHP
This post is a paraphrasing of a talk I gave at the Sydney PHP group. First up, let's talk about…
Software as a Service at the turn of the millennium
This post was inspired by a discussion with a colleague about one of my first proper programming jobs which I started…
DevFoundry September 2015
We've recently finished the inaugural DevFoundry event with the technology teams at News Corp Australia. While we do many product-focused…