At the end of June, Chris Cooper-Bland and I will be running a session at the SPA2014 conference called “When will we ever learn“. The main objective of this session is to identify blockers to making learning part of business-as-usual in a software development environment and to come up with some approaches that people can […]
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A couple of weeks ago there was a lot of heat and noise on Twitter and the blogs about Bob Martin’s foreman articles [1][2]. I think the powers of the foreman as described are somewhat draconian and excessive but when I think of some of the situations I have found myself in over the years […]
A couple of weeks ago I attended a really good workshop on How To Stop Being Amoral and Unethical (And Like Yourself Again) at SPA2013 led by John Nolan. The session explored the individual morality of software developers and the ethics of the organizations for which they developed software or of the wider community. The motivating examples […]
I was watching Simon Brown’s Frustrated Architect presentation and I found it an interesting trip through design approaches and artefacts. Although slightly irritated that some of the agile approaches seemed to be exaggerated for effect (although I admit that there are some really bad software development teams out there calling themselves agile), his conclusion was what […]
It was good to be back at XP Day a few weeks ago to see old friends, meet some new people and have some interesting discussions. I decided to pitch an open space entitled Don’t Try This at Home to discuss agile practices that had crashed and burned for people in the past 12-24 months […]
I was watching Rachel Davies’ NDC session about moving from Scrum to Kanban earlier today. There was a question at one point regarding the length of the conversation in kanban standups from someone who was working in scrum. They were doing round-robin standups where each person is asked in turn about what they are doing. […]
It’s only 6 months since I left Barclays but it feels like a lifetime. It seems like a long time ago that I was walking the dog at 6.30am in the cold, wind and rain trying to read and type emails on my company Blackberry. Anyone who knows me will be aware that I wasn’t […]
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