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All you need is love?

Yesterday I was fortunate enough to spend a day in the company of many inspiring engineering leaders at the Melbourne leg of the CTO Summit Series. …

Unaccustomed as I am...

A couple of things this week have got me thinking about public speaking. Firstly, I have been confirmed as one of the speakers for the Melbourne CTO …

The power of place at work

Almost exactly five years ago I wrote a blog post about the power of the office environment which related to some of my experiences working at the REA …

Open sourcing our work - why we're doing it

Today we released a tool that we’ve been working on as open source software. The tool is called Cassius and it’s a Clojure wrapper around Cassandra …

Empowering self-organising teams with self-selection

We’ve just allowed our teams to decide what they’re going to work on and who they’re going to work with. It was a big step but a necessary one and I …

Dear Malcolm - Can you deliver on digital?

Note: I am writing this post as a citizen of Australia and not a representative of any organisation I’ve worked with past or present To the Minister …

Being SAFe on the train

After two months, I feel that the time is right to talk a bit about SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) and what it means to me and to my team. Two days …

The Last Mile - DevOps, Cloud and agility

This is a paraphrashing of a talk I gave at Agile Singapore 2013 on the subject of DevOps and the Cloud and how they can improve agility in software …

Date for your diary: Agile Singapore, November 7-8 2013

The biggest Agile event in South East Asia is only about 6 weeks away. If you’ve not already bought your ticket, you’ve got until the 6th October to …