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Software as a Service at the turn of the millennium

This post was inspired by a discussion with a colleague about one of my first proper programming jobs which I started 14 years ago this month. Back …

DevFoundry September 2015

We’ve recently finished the inaugural DevFoundry event with the technology teams at News Corp Australia. While we do many product-focused NewsFoundry …

Book Review: Reinventing Organizations

I’ve recently finished reading " Reinventing Organizations" by Frederic Laloux. I was inspired to read it after attending a talk by Michael Spayd and …

Management and leadership resources : the big list

I often find myself talking to experienced and new managers about things I’ve read or heard. Of course I can never remember everything so this post …

You don't "get it" until you see it

I was involved in a Twitter conversation recently about the value of testers in a software delivery team and the kinds of skills we expect of testers. …

Fire Marshal Fridays and Technical Debt

One of the teams that I’m working with came up with a great way of managing their technical debt backlog. The developers are split across five or six …

Revitalising the weekly management meeting

Monday, 9am: the first participants drift into the room clasping their smart devices and coffees. 9:05am: The meeting gets going with the weekly …

Happy World No Resources Day

Here’s the text of an email I sent to my colleagues this morning. What are you doing to celebrate World No Resources Day? Today is World No Resources …

When hiring - skills first or culture first?

This week, Greythorn released the results of their survey on IT hiring in Australia. They concluded that “CIOs are increasingly hiring new IT staff …