The Value of Delivering Nothing.
In the fast-paced world of product innovation and agile development, delivering value through new products, features and solutions is paramount. Sometimes, however, Product teams can deliver value by saying, "No"
The mythical “Full Stack” Product Manager…
The ‘Full Stack’ term has recently started to appear in buzzword-heavy Job descriptions for Product Managers. Recruiter Marketeers love a good buzzword and ‘full stack’ is just such a thing: it means nothing, so it can be used everywhere and for whatever definition you wish. But is ‘full stack’ useful, or even advisa
Podcast interview on “The Business of A.I.”
I was very pleased (and a little surprised, if I’m honest!) to be asked to feature on “The Business of A.I.” Podcast. The interview with Luca Marchesotti of Sparkd AI was a little bit nervy because it was unscripted and the questions were not supplied in advance. Having said that, I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation [&he
Tool to auto-generate User Stories with minimal typing and even less repetition…
...auto-generating User Stories to allow direct importing into Jira and automatic linking to Epics. Downloadable template to get started. Ideal for stakeholder engagement when identifying features and to facilitate Dev & QA stakeholders' decomposition of features.
Even my wardrobe is Agile…
Agile is always supposed to be geared towards answering that simple question: what is the next most valuable thing we could deliver? By that definition, even my wardrobe is Agile.
You can go FAR if you avoid the FOGS
“One of the most recent - and perhaps the most outwardly unsuitable - area where Agile principles and techniques are being applied is the area of Product Innovation. Kanban, Lean and JIT processes are ideally suited to predictable, repeatable processes like Manufacturing. Product innovation is anything but predictable or repea
The Complexities in our Digital Identity
In a recent Documentary on RTÉ TV (the Irish national broadcaster) about Annacarty Barracks and its central role in the Irish path to freedom & independence, Mick Dromm (at least, I think that was his name!), who was one of the primary Archaeologists on the Project, said: “As a nation, as a people, we are […]
Now that you’re ‘working from home’… behaviour and etiquette for Virtual Meetings…
This is an updated version (given the huge explosion in the numbers of people working from home in 2020 as a result of COVID19 / Coronavirus and the likelihood that this will accelerate the Work From Home transition) of a Blog Post published originally in 2015. Warning: this is a looonnnnggg post so please excercise […]
How (not) to be a Recruiter…
Not everyone is cut out to be a Recruiter. Some of us Contractors get to deal with dozens (even hundreds) of different Recruiters. Occasionally one comes along that makes it all worthwhile. David isn’t that one... :-)
CiCoDa Racing – The Story So Far
So you’ve always wanted to take charge off a Motor Racing team... it’s not as impossible (or as expensive!) as you might think. Just do what we did and start your own Team.
