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....
Continue Reading →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...
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