This week we meet with a Andy and Simon from CWL systems, on the outside they seem a very focused IT consulting and implementation shop, what completely changed my view of this was the single slide displayed on a screen in their office: Customers are not dependent on us – We are dependent on [...]
Over the last few months I have been dealing with issues on how to motivate staff and found this really interesting talk from TED by Dan Pink (who happens to be Al Gore’s speech writer). He touches on practices such as Result only Work Environments definitely food for thought. Starting with a fact that social [...]
The importance of the retrospective cannot be underestimated it in many cases is the worst performed element of the agile practices. I am currently researching different project managers and facilitators retrospective practices. I am currently documenting my thoughts on this but I during my research I found this video from Google Tec Talks.
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The one phase that is most often neglected in agile development is the retrospective, fulfilling the same role as lessons learned in other methodologies such as Prince2. Only paying lip service to the retrospective will have noticeable effect on the delivery of the project it is in this phase that misunderstandings are outlined and process that [...]
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@ianburgess Hi Ian! I'm going to be in Edin next wk...you around? Hope all is well. Would be good to catch up :)
RT @rangerj: Just presented DAD The Semantic Desktop at the Creative Industries KTN sponsored minibar tonight - ping me if you want a copy
