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...
Continue Reading →Getting to Green - the challenges of CI and CD in a large organisation
July 30, 2012The idea of the talk was to present some thoughts on how to move from manual deployment to automated deployment in a larger organisation which has not historically used automation techniques....
Continue Reading →Behaviour Driven Development - Or “how I learned to stop worrying and love the business”
April 21, 2011Behaviour Driven Development from Andy Kelk Behaviour Driven Development - Presentation Transcript 1. Test Driven Development Domain Driven Design Behaviour...
Continue Reading →Pair programming: Making the case for its survival
September 21, 2009When we started transitioning to Agile, we were lucky to have support from senior management as well as coaching from external consultants. Part of the deal...
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