The Fletcher Project

The things I should have learned from years of putting together people and technology to get successful product online. We’ll probably talk about strategy, distributed systems, agile development, webscale computing and of course how to manage those most complicated of all machines – the human being – in our quest to expose the most business value in the least expensive way.

Saturday, 3 October 2009

I think you might have it backwards

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The most common criticism I hear about agile is also the most common mistake teams make in their early adoption of iterative practices - not...
Sunday, 27 September 2009

Screen Scraping for Dummies

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If you run a website with any sort of valuable content, t hen you are almost guaranteed to run into scraping sooner or later. Screen Scrap...
Sunday, 20 September 2009

conferences - jolly good or just a jolly?

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It has always interested me that two different people can look at the exact same conference, and one declare it to be an unmissable event re...
Friday, 4 September 2009

Delegation from the other side

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I really like Manager Tools - it's probably the best single source of personal development material that you're ever going to find ...
Sunday, 30 August 2009

A better way to manage equity?

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When we get together to start a new venture, the structure of the equity is always an early topic. The usual format is something along the ...
Wednesday, 19 August 2009

Doing it on the side

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Something new managers often struggle with is what their response should be when members of their team are involved (or are considering bein...
Tuesday, 16 June 2009

The nuances of Planning Poker

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I’m going to skip right over explaining what planning poker is and how it works - especially since there are so many simple and effective ex...
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Sunday, 14 June 2009

Right First Time

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Imagine if the first wall you ever built had to form an integral part of your dream home, or if the first time you ever drew a picture it ha...
Monday, 8 June 2009

So who is in a team anyway?

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I caught up with a friend the other day; he’s in the system integrator business and is struggling a little with recent growth. Long story s...
Monday, 1 June 2009

Good ops guys are hard to find...

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Good operations is about staying one step ahead of the state of the system; taking proactive actions based on quality telemetry. I’m reinven...
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