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5 Steps to Becoming a More Effective Scrum Team
I often get to work with teams trying to 'do' Scrum and after about 100+ teams, I can confidently say one fundamental issue comes up again and again as a key stumbling block to how effective these tea...
Why We Need God
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] By: Jason Eppink - CC BY 2.0[/caption] This post has been 20+ years in the making. Earlier today, I watched a Ted talk by Alain de Botton and on...
Exploring TripAdvisor's Top 20 Galway Restaurants in 20 Days
I'm in Galway, Ireland for a few weeks to do some work for a client. The last time I was in Galway, I was here for year with my family. This time I'm here for 5 weeks without my family and no cooking...
Re-Imagine and Reuse.
My bro sent me these images showing new and imaginative ways old products are reused. I feel very inspired - if a little inadequate a designer! [gallery columns="4" type="rectangular" ids="1782,1783,...
Lessons from why my startup failed: Know your mind.
I ceased work on ServiceChat - the startup that I have been working on for six months. It might not seem that long to you, but to me it is a very long time of illusions and self discovery. My learnin...
The Art of Peeing Sitting Down
It all starts in Germany A few years ago I spent a few weeks working in Berlin. The work was through the consultancy owned by my friends Marion and Andrea. To keep costs low and to help make my stay i...
6 Weeks to Run My Next Experiment
The Story Whilst researching a post about Morrisons and its customer service on Twitter, I discovered that even though I could see all the customers that had an experience on a given day, they couldn'...
Developer or Programmer? Why it matters.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500"] By: Seattle Municipal Archives - CC BY 2.0[/caption] For nearly 25 years, I have been writing some form of software code or another. For nearly twenty of...
August 3: I Failed. Do, Learn, Adapt and Repeat Differently.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="332"] By: fhwrdh - CC BY 2.0[/caption] I am mothballing my ServiceChat startup experiment. After six months, I have to admit to myself that ServiceCha...
Cheap At Half the Price
By: Coffee Circle - CC BY 2.0A couple of days ago, I walked into an outlet of a well known chain of Irish sandwich shops and ordered my lunch. As I am wont to do after my lunch, I ordered a single esp...