Building a learning culture on a budget
December 9, 2015This is a paraphrasing of a talk given at the 2015 CTO Summits in Melbourne and Sydney. --- Think about the last day you spent at work. What did you learn? We...
Continue Reading →Blameless Postmortems
October 22, 2015This is a paraphrasing of a lightning talk I gave at our internal DevOps conference on Blameless Postmortems. Due to the nature of the format, it's necessarily...
Continue Reading →Get rid of all the managers
October 20, 2015This is a paraphrasing of my talk from Ignite Sydney. The five minute format means this is necessarily lacking in detail! --- Are you happy at work?...
Continue Reading →Software as a Service at the turn of the millennium
September 7, 2015This post was inspired by a discussion with a colleague about one of my first proper programming jobs which I started 14 years ago this month. Back then, the...
Continue Reading →Book Review: Reinventing Organizations
August 31, 2015I've recently finished reading "Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux. I was inspired to read it after attending a talk by Michael Spayd and Michael...
Continue Reading →Management and leadership resources : the big list
August 6, 2015I often find myself talking to experienced and new managers about things I've read or heard. Of course I can never remember everything so this post aims to...
Continue Reading →You don't "get it" until you see it
August 6, 2015I was involved in a Twitter conversation recently about the value of testers in a software delivery team and the kinds of skills we expect of testers. It got...
Continue Reading →Fire Marshal Fridays and Technical Debt
July 20, 2015One of the teams that I'm working with came up with a great way of managing their technical debt backlog. The developers are split across five or six...
Continue Reading →Revitalising the weekly management meeting
July 2, 2015Monday, 9am: the first participants drift into the room clasping their smart devices and coffees. 9:05am: The meeting gets going with the weekly roundtable...
Continue Reading →Happy World No Resources Day
April 30, 2015Here's the text of an email I sent to my colleagues this morning. What are you doing to celebrate World No Resources Day? > Today is World No Resources Day....
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