Jan 18, 2021My experience with MindfulnessI have been practicing mindfulness for number of years now and recently had the opportunity to do a course for professionals, thanks to the support of my leadership at work. …Mindfulness12 min read
Jul 10, 2020What world do we want to live in?With many people starting to contemplate life after the lockdown, there seems to be a sentiment bubbling just below the surface; that some may not want to return to working in an office. Looking to trade in the rat race for a more comfortable commute to an adjacent room and…Choices8 min read
Jun 25, 2020Empowerment in AgileA colleague recently completed a SAFe training course and afterwards sent on this article, asking for my opinion on whether the conclusion, that SAFe is evil, is a fair and balanced opinion. …Agile Development16 min read
Mar 12, 2020Can the journey be more valuable than the destination?In the quest to continually increase the speed at which we deliver software to customers, there seems to be an unfortunate casualty in the race, the journey. The journey is not something that we can easily see. It is meandering and only lightly sign posted. To many, it is something…Journey7 min read
Jan 15, 2020Stop being unreasonable!This statement, by itself, without any context, will likely put most people into a defensive posture. It feels like an attack. It has been used in the past to dismiss your point or shut you down. So when you hear it, it is the proverbial red rag to a bull…Climate Change8 min read
Dec 31, 2019Redefining successAs we come to the close of another year and disturbingly another decade, I happened upon a brilliant podcast that awakened my introspective self from its post Christmas slumber. …Agile8 min read
Sep 5, 2019Attend to your forests, lest they burnIf you have read my previous articles you may notice that many topics come from ideas discussed by Jordan Peterson, who is someone I have been listening to more and more of late. A YouTube channel WordToTheWise recently started to put segments of his talks into motivational videos. I have…Agile9 min read
Aug 2, 2019How driving can make Kanban boards flow betterA recent addition of a long overdue feature in our backlog tracking tool sparked a question in me about the nature of blockages, I started to think through why they are so important to understand and how best to visualise them. When the tool was initially set up, it did…Agile12 min read
Jul 17, 2019Death by 1000 cuts — The recurring meeting35 minutes into a meeting, you hear your name mentioned, you are snapped back from reading an email, having not heard the question, you unmute your headset and respond, “huh?”. The question is repeated, you answer and the meeting carries on. …Meetings5 min read
Jul 17, 2019Data driven discussions — What is the cost of doing business in agile?Data is a core pillar that supports working in an agile way (or in Agile). Good data can lead to better decision making, poor quality data can lead to ill-informed decisions and poorly gathered data can lead to anti-patterns. Through agile practices we aim to visualise our data, such that…Agile7 min read
