When hiring - skills first or culture first?
February 11, 2015This week, Greythorn released the results of their survey on IT hiring in Australia. They concluded that "CIOs are increasingly hiring new IT staff based in...
Continue Reading →All you need is love?
December 4, 2014Yesterday I was fortunate enough to spend a day in the company of many inspiring engineering leaders at the Melbourne leg of the CTO Summit Series. One of the...
Continue Reading →Unaccustomed as I am...
November 21, 2014A couple of things this week have got me thinking about public speaking. Firstly, I have been confirmed as one of the speakers for the Melbourne CTO Summit in...
Continue Reading →The power of place at work
August 23, 2014Almost exactly five years ago I wrote a blog post about the power of the office environment which related to some of my experiences working at the REA Group...
Continue Reading →Open sourcing our work - why we're doing it
July 24, 2014Today we released a tool that we've been working on as open source software. The tool is called Cassius and it's a Clojure wrapper around Cassandra data; go...
Continue Reading →Empowering self-organising teams with self-selection
May 14, 2014We've just allowed our teams to decide what they're going to work on and who they're going to work with. It was a big step but a necessary one and I want to...
Continue Reading →Being SAFe on the train
February 9, 2014After two months, I feel that the time is right to talk a bit about SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and what it means to me and to my team. Two days after I...
Continue Reading →Agile Malaysia - 22nd August 2013
August 22, 2013We're now settling into a two-monthly rhythm for the Agile Malaysia meetups thanks to the hard work and perseverance of Jeff Au and Colin Pal. This edition was...
Continue Reading →How valuable is a Computer Science degree?
July 16, 2013I read the article "Why Citizen Developers are the Future of Programming" and it prompted some thoughts on the value of education. The thrust of the article...
Continue Reading →Agile Malaysia - 29th November 2012
November 30, 2012Thursday saw the latest instalment in the Agile Malaysia journey. After an extended hiatus, we got together at the MYOB office courtesy of Jeff Au. We had a...
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