I watched the recording of the first #TDDLive webinar session yesterday. It was a really good conversation (nice to see a fishbowl format in action) and I’d recommend watching it if you get the chance. The part of the conversation about mocks was interesting as panellists were bringing up their experience of codebases (or people […]
A friend asked me what advice I’d have about what makes for a good project kick-off, either from the supplier or customer side. I think from the supplier side, which is where I’ve gained most of my experience, I’d have to say setting of expectations, particularly for agile initiatives where there really is some uncertainty […]
Shamelessly adapted from Pink’s “Who Knew” (if you’re not familiar with the original you can see it on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=NJWIbIe0N90). You took my vote at that big poll You said that we’d take back control Uh huh That’s right I took your words and I believed In everything you said to me Yeah huh That’s […]
At Agile Manchester 2017, John Nolan and I ran a workshop entitled Technologists are amoral/unethical: what can be done?. The idea was to examine why digital technology is generally practiced as an amoral/unethical occupation and then to ask participants to propose practical things we could do to address our behaviours. The rest of this post is […]
I recently joined Co-op Digital as a Tech Lead in Co-op Funeralcare. The team I’m working with is a true multi-disciplinary team including UX specialists, subject matter experts seconded from the wider business and even a dedicated user researcher. It’s a talented and varied group of people. You can read more about what the team have […]
It started around 9pm on the day after the Leave vote. I was gobsmacked by this twitter exchange and felt compelled to respond to the second of Chris Matts‘ tweets. As someone who has lived outside the M25 all my life (bar about 6 weeks) I bridled at the idea that the blame for the lack […]
The basin of an extinct volcano otherwise known as Edinburgh saw the second public outing of the “Agile: It’s not just about the development team” workshop run with Kevin Rutherford, this time at XP2016. The format was the same as the run at Agile Manchester 2015 but the time allowed was slightly longer so it would be […]
A few weeks ago, Kevin Rutherford and I ran a session at the Agile Manchester conference called “Agile: it’s not just about the development team“. In many businesses the perception is often that the development team is the bottleneck and that if only they could go faster then more customer value would be delivered and […]
A couple of years ago as I was wandering into work one morning I read a tweet from Ron Jeffries which seemed to sum up my feeling about agile software development after years of working as a developer, team leader, coach, etc. in the space: In many places I had seen (and in some cases […]
Over the past few months I’ve very much been a fan-boy of the work done by @racheldavies around building learning in team life. The teams at Unruly seem to have evolved a great combination of learning practices that support different types of learning: team and individual, practical and conceptual, practice and technology, etc. It’s not only […]
