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ROWE: trial month one – results

Some stats Actually, it’s more than a month now. A month and 21 days and the results are looking good! Most of the metrics are going in the right direction. Defects reported and time-to-fix is down....

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ROWE: problems and benefits from the trial

Problem by r00pert There’s been a few things pop up over the last six weeks that I hadn’t anticipated and I thought it useful to blog these too. Problems There haven’t been any major problems...

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The Snoopers Charter

So, I wrote my MP, Sam Gyimah: Hey Sam, Haven’t written in a while, but this new ‘Communications Data Bill’ has really got me worried. While I have absolutely nothing to hide, I believe that too many...

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Why Showing Your Face at Work Shouldn’t Matter

Showing ones face is the best way to get a promotion… A colleague sent me a link to an article on the MIT website, ‘Why Showing Your Face at Work Matters’ and, frankly, it has really got up my nose!...

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Working from home ‘more productive’– The BBC

Working from home is beautiful. A had a text from a friend tonight, “They’re talking about you on the BBC!”, I was momentarily excited until I got the link to the audio from the Radio4 Today programme...

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Should I update my CV?

I receive about 2 emails a day and probably three or four calls a week from recruiters who have an old version of my CV in their hand. The version they have is usually very out of date (some context:...

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A bit of Behat: clicking on text

So, I’ve been messing about with Behat recently to try some tests of our site. I was given the challenge of testing the ‘Refine By’ functionality of our directory search. I thought it would be easy (it...

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Who tunes the guitars?

You need men like this, otherwise live music would sound awful. I read a lot of blog posts, articles, papers and what-not on creating, maintaining and coaching teams. It’s the one thing that, for me,...

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The one with George Osborne and the right to flexible working

Look! I’ve got nothing up my sleeves! So, George Osborne today announced that, in exchange for between £2,000 and £50,000 of shares, employees can relinquish some of the rights they have as employees....

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How big is it? A guide to agile estimation

I gave a talk at LondonWeb a couple of weeks ago. It was a lot of fun. I tried to broadcast it with Google Hangout on Air, but the hotel wi-fi was rubbish. Luckily, @nathanlon recorded it too, so here...

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Have you read the manifesto?

I sometimes wonder whether people have actually even read the Agile manifesto. It is made of four core values and 12 principles, I won’t paste them all here, you can find them at the above link. Maybe...

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Mad, Glad, Sad retrospectives

I help my first retrospective for a while recently (that’s not to say the team hasn’t been retrospecting, just that others have been doing it in my stead!) and the team wanted to do the Mad, Glad, Sad...

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How to estimate, pitch for and charge for a project in an agency enviroment

When I talk about estimation and planning, people often ask me the above question. The styles of estimating I talk about are more frequently used in a non-agency environment, that is, somewhere...

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BDD: Starting With Quality

Quality with a star and stuff Quality isn’t defined by a lack of defects or bugs. You wouldn’t get a cup of barista coffee and exclaim, “This coffee is quality because it doesn’t have a problem with...

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Is Legacy Code Actually Technical Debt?

Technical debt can come in many forms, but is your legacy codebase really technical debt? If you make decisions based on the knowledge you have at the time, can the problems these decisions cause later...

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Does It Need to Be Said? Don’t Lie.

I recently watched Liz Keoghs “Let’s be honest…” YouTube that she did at the goto; conference. It was a fun and engaging talk, but I was frustrated and, frankly, surprised that there are companies or...

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Sorry, It’s Company Policy.

Possibly the most frustrating, emotionally bankrupt and redundant four words you’ll ever hear in the workplace. I recently had the displeasure of hearing these words. Not, thankfully, said to me...

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Is it feedback, or signoff?

Grubby sign off. Many groups suffer from having too many levels of sign off: designers seek sign off on UI changes from the head of their department and, potentially, the studio manager. This is after...

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Are you intelligent? Do you do intelligence?

Well, are you? Are you intelligent? Or perhaps you do intelligence. Do you? You do? No. No, you don’t do intelligence just as you don’t do clever and you certainly don’t do agile|Agile|aGiLe. I read...

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Surface Acting: bad for business and your health

Angry Twins by Pelle Sten Have you ever been in any kind of meeting that made you angry, sad, excited, disappointed or frustrated? Sure you have (if not, I want to work with you!) and you’ve also...

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