I recently (re-)encountered the use of Lego as a metaphor for building and composing systems. There has been something lurking in the back of my head around this looking for a connection to make and I think I’ve realised what it is. When using Lego as a metaphor we need to be wary of what […]
A few years back (far more than I care to remember) I worked on a couple of patterns papers with Eoin Woods on the management and handling of errors. I wanted to reference them today the Blueskyline website has been a little up and down so while I get this fixed I thought I thought […]
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 […]
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 […]
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