Measuring happiness
February 4, 2016As sometimes happens, I wanted to answer a question on Twitter but couldn't do it justice in 140 characters. The question was this: > @andykelk @auxesis...
Continue Reading →Why all the Jira hate? I'll tell you why
December 21, 2015I've recently retweeted a few tweets which weren't exactly complimentary about Jira. For example: > Plenty of good things happened at work today. And then I...
Continue Reading →The power of coffee
December 15, 2015Reading this article recently, an interesting theory about coffee was raised: > The time of day people drink their coffee varies with Sydney waking up with...
Continue Reading →Building a learning culture on a budget
December 9, 2015Think about the last day you spent at work. What did you learn? We usually reflect on what we achieved, what we completed, what we delivered....
Continue Reading →Blameless Postmortems
October 22, 2015Let’s talk about failure. It’s not something we talk about a lot because it’s not a comfortable topic. We always hope for success but we also need to be able to deal with failure...
Continue Reading →Get rid of all the managers
October 20, 2015Are you happy at work? Statistically speaking, the chances are that you're not. In countless surveys, the number of people reporting that they're engaged at work comes out at just 30%....
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...
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