It’s pretty tough looking after 9 projects, a lot of things to keep an eye on. It’s even harder when some of the projects use a totally different process to the others. We are a Scrum shop, we follow the scrum process – mostly. Recently a few of our projects started to use Kanban, which [...]
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Kanban Check – A daily overview of Kanban
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Creating a webapp is creating a startup
Do you think of writing a webapp in similar terms to creating a startup? I think that they are in very similar. Let me explain to you why, and see if you agree. I’ve been building and coding webapps for many years now. I have experience of working in a startup that went bust, and [...]
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Standing room only – a new use for Coke Cans
There are many things you can do with a Coke can or two, or 48 in this case. Olly decided to try a new lunchtime exercise… We all know prototyping something is the best way to find out quickly if its a good idea, and it turns out it only takes 48 cans of coke [...]
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Getting stuck in Commitment Debt
I was inspired today by a post on Rachel Davies’ blog to write something that has been brewing in my mind for some time. So today I want to share with you the concept of commitment debt. Towards the end of 2010, I tried mapping my own projects, work, social, personal etc, and fitting them [...]
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Alchemist Dreams of Liqueurs
Its rare that I come across a new company doing something creative, doing it well, and making me think “wow! this is cool” so when I do, I feel I ought to shout about it… In our office we just shared a round of handmade bespoke liqueurs, served from an old style Alchemsist test tubes. [...]
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Lessons learned from writing and launching a WebApp in 23 days
Less than a week ago I launched HabitualApp. Given that my day job is creating webapps this isn’t something I would normally make a big deal of. However this site was different – I wrote it entirely on my own. That meant I had to do: Concept Design (what is the app, why does it [...]
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HabitualApp: Making Habits that Stick
Today I am launching HabitualApp, a free webapp for tracking thirty day trial habits. You can find it here, and follow it on twitter, @habitualapp It’s the time of year for new year’s resolutions, and thirty day trials are a great technique for making resolutions succeed. They can be used to: Change existing behaviours, such [...]
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Preparing and Rehearsing a Talk
My colleague Gwyn and I have just returned from Krakow, Poland, where we gave our Sword of Integration talk. It was the best presentation we have given so far, both in terms of how well we feel we delivered it, and the feedback we got from the audience. So I wanted to share with you [...]
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Practice daily tactical decision making
You want to be successful I don’t know what you want to do with your day, week or life. However I am sure that whatever it is, you want to be successful at it. The best way to achieve this is not to obsess on strategy, but to practice making tactical decisions. Stategy and Tactics Most [...]
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Chain of Fools
What do you do when you have one person who is the repository of knowledge for a critical part of your project, infrastructure or similar. You need some way to address this situation, otherwise that poor person will go mad dealing with other peoples problems, never feel free to go on holiday, and if they [...]