So I’m now a licensed by Thomas International to deliver, read, interpret and generally use to my advantage their Personal Profile Analysis reports. I’ve finished the training, searched my soul and bared my flaws and frustrations in front of a “support group” (read:class) of like minded HR professionals…
Oh, hang on a minute, I’m not an [...]
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Thomas – my new best mate…
Outsourcing doesn’t work unless you “sit on them” – Rubbish!
By virtue of what can only have been a “few spare chairs”, I found myself at the inaugural IT Leaders Forum a couple of weeks ago at the Imperial War Museum and spent a part of my afternoon chewing the fat in the company of many of the C-level execs from the IT departments of a veritable [...]
Why does Scrum REALLY work?
Type “Scrum” into Google and you’ll get a plethora of articles about Artefacts, Roles and Ceremonies and all that good stuff. You’ll also get plenty of information about “Business Value”, “Adapting to a changing environment”, “Work tracking”, “Process improvement” etc, etc, etc. All that stuff is great. The former makes users of Scrum feel like [...]
Guess what? Scrum developers should be cutting code, period!
I got into a mini debate on Twitter last week and it got me thinking about my views on a few things Scrum. I’m not going to chew over the specifics of the to and fro as it’s very difficult to have a reasoned debate with only 140 characters per point but I thought I’d explore some of the issues arising [...]
Scrum training – getting the balance right.
Earlier in the week I had to deliver a training session to one of our most recent additions to the technical team. He’s been there 3 months and, arguably, I should have provided this training already but I wanted to try something different.
A “good” employer tends to pride themselves on the fact that they deliver [...]
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