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.

Tuesday, 31 August 2010

The Abstraction Trap

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Abstractions exist so that we can take shortcuts when building stuff.  They readily implement some of the messy necessities behind things li...
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Friday, 13 August 2010

5 Less Obvious Leadership Qualities

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There is so much material out there on leadership and management – the basics of the topic are generally well covered and so I’d like to add...
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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