Roam Research has been around for a while, but that doesn’t mean I’ve heard of it until now. What took me slightly by surprise when I did final arrive at the Roam party was just how good a fit it is for my way of thinking. I’m not a researcher or academic (I never really… Continue reading Roamin…
Author: Colin
What is a Product Owner Anyway?
I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last week wrestling with a whole load of semantic noise. When I set up my current team a couple of years back, one of the requirements from my leadership team was to try a new way of working, and most importantly ignore what we already had… Continue reading What is a Product Owner Anyway?
Agile Is Childish
It was the first day back in training for the U10 football team this morning. We had the kids doing dribbling and running drills to help them get back into the swing of it all, and to give them a taster of the activities to come. They completed the drill four times, and after each… Continue reading Agile Is Childish
Lean Training
The whole organisation has been given lean training. Over 200 people have taken up the opportunity to spend three hours in sessions in which they will be told how to be more efficient by identifying waste in processes. Yes, the irony is so tangible you could beat someone (someone less efficient, I hope) with it,… Continue reading Lean Training
Robots – Hardware vs Software
I’ve been spending a lot of time working out how to support the increased use of software robots in my current role. What is consistently not surprising is the view that robots come packed with intelligent and a view to taking over the world, just like the [insert traditional bad guys of your culture here].… Continue reading Robots – Hardware vs Software
Don’t Feed the Beast
Facebook is a beast, a beast that will devour anything and everything you throw at it. It will chew on every offering, digest even the tiniest morsels, absorbing every last byte of nutrients. It will grow bigger, stronger and hungrier, needing evermore courses to live. So stop feeding the fucker… Facebook, for the moment, is… Continue reading Don’t Feed the Beast
Automation Ethics
Automation feels like an Extention of nature. As humans we’ve been incredibly successful in solving problems that get in our way, in refining processes and generally figuring out how to do less for more. This mirrors the basic concept of the second law of thermodynamics, that at the end of time all matter will have… Continue reading Automation Ethics