Tuesday, 30 December 2014

This is it

›
I have decided to close this blog. Looking at the visitor stats I know there's some information people find useful. I do however thi...
Tuesday, 30 September 2014

What is the role of the Project Manager (PM) in Agile? - (part 1 of 3)

›
It all started because of a frustrating day which included numerous demonstrations of wasted tima and effort for reasons I have not been ab...

I am collecting scrum teams' sprint numbers for a study - can you help?

›
Scrum Teams' Sprint data  I am collecting data from scrum teams for a study. While the data could vary (I don't expect you to p...
Friday, 4 July 2014

Do you do jobs or do you add value?

›
A few months ago I was approached by a large US consultancy with a view of helping them with very short assignments across Europe. Somebody ...
Monday, 17 March 2014

Yes in 10 minutes

›
My current listen - The Willpower instinct (by Kelly McGonial) prompted me to read a little more about addiction and the role of dopamine. I...
Tuesday, 4 March 2014

End of year book report

›
2012 looks like the year in which I managed to read more books then the past 5 previous years combined! This is an amazing achievement fo...
Friday, 14 February 2014

Extracting the high level domain (or sub domain) from URL in T-SQL (SQL Server)

›
I've not posted anything technical for years now so when I had to solve this problem yesterday I thought it might be a good idea to publ...
Thursday, 13 February 2014

What have I read in 2013 (and why you should be reading some of these titles too)

›
This year I decided to include a short (1-2) sentences review for each of the books I have read. I also implemented a simple "star...
Thursday, 21 November 2013

What’s common about my tennis skills, developing software and building organisations

›
A friend of mine sent me a message last week. It was a polite message asking if we can play tennis some time, but what I found interesting w...
Thursday, 2 May 2013

Intention to change: "I will make something happen"

›
I have not spent much time designing this, at least not on purpose. It sort of emerged during a busy week when I was asked to facilitate a t...