Archive: December 2019

A few people have implied that some people are not willing to approach me for advice as they don't think their question is good enough. I'd like to change this by allowing anyone to ask me anything.
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A short survey to help me find out what topics you (my audience) would like me to present information about and what format you would like to see it presented in. With this data I hope to tailor my delivery to give you the greatest possible value.
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I'm interested to know how people perceive me and my skill set. If you have a few minutes to complete this survey I would be extremely grateful.
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YOW! CTO Summit 2019 Melbourne - Your Team as a Distributed System

As I wrote about YOW! CTO Summit 2019 Melbourne I realised some topics were worthy of their own article. In this article I cover some of the thoughts raised by Andrew Harvey's presentation about thinking of a team as a distributed system.
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YOW! CTO Summit 2019 Melbourne - Error Budgets and Learning From Incidents

As I wrote about YOW! CTO Summit 2019 Melbourne I realised some topics were worthy of their own article. In this article I cover some of the thoughts raised by Andrew Hatch's presentation on learning from incidents and John Viner's presentation about rolling out error budgets.
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YOW! CTO Summit 2019 Melbourne

After a full-on day at CTO Summit 2019 Melbourne I'm sharing my thoughts on some of the topics from the day.
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Core Values: Your Organisation Only Needs One

I see lots of organisations that have 4, 5 or even 6 core values. In this article I propose a single core value and explain how it sets the scene for your entire organisation.
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Startup Grind APAC - Day 2

A review and summary of the sessions I attended at the second (and final) day of Startup Grind APAC in Melbourne on the 10th December 2019.
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Startup Grind APAC - Day 1

A review and summary of the sessions I attended at the first day of Startup Grind APAC in Melbourne on the 9th December 2019.
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Types of Sprint Retrospectives

Rather than just writing a blog post about the different ways a retrospective can be run, I thought I’d do one linking to some resources I’ve found informative.
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What Scrum Lacks and the Misuse of Retrospectives

Teams focussing on external issues during a retrospective highlights a problem within the organisation and perhaps a missing piece of the Scrum framework.
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