Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Architecture in Agile

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When a team first starts practicing agile a question that usually comes up fairly early is where architects fit in.  In a set of processes w...
Thursday, 8 July 2010

Finding Talent Part 2

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Continuing on from my last post here is the balance of the talk: Culture is critical to success Culture is meaningful in 2 ways; it’s t...

Finding Talent Part 1

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Here’s a synopsis of my recent talk on recruiting high performance teams (you can find the slides here ) which was made famous at this year’...
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Monday, 28 June 2010

Software vs. Infrastructure

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For some reason I’ve been running into a lot of other CIOs and CTOs lately and one topic that keeps coming up was whether we were developmen...
Tuesday, 22 June 2010

What am I going to do today?

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Here I go again – with that ‘time’ spiel – anyone who works with me will be switching off about now; but it’s a good spiel and one that I th...
Monday, 14 June 2010

A different view on Job Satisfaction

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If you’ve been here before then you will know that I don’t just regurgitate content here unless I think I can add something significant to i...
Wednesday, 9 June 2010

Entropy

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A great note just came through on the Manager Tools mailing list the other day called ‘Everything Decays’ and I liked it because it explain...
Thursday, 29 April 2010

Technical Debt Credit Rating

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A while back I wrote about how closely technical debt paralleled financial debt and then a short follow-up post with the meta-message that...
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Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Nobody Wants Computers

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Well they shouldn't - they should want what computers will do for them . Many people turn up to conferences or SIG meetings and ask me h...
Friday, 23 April 2010

The ISO standard for business plans

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If I had a quarter for every time a budding entrepreneur has asked me about what should go into his business plan, then I'd have - let...