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A General view of planning

24 MAY 2013 | Posted in agile planning | Author Stan Wade |

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I get asked the question ‘who is your favourite 19^th century Prussian Field Marshal’ quite a lot, as I suspect you do as well. There are of course several great contenders for this title, but my vote has to go Helmuth Von Moltke the Elder. Why? Because of his contribution to the concept of dynamic planning! Trying to convince people that planning is a continuous and never ending process and not something that’s completed at the start of a project is a constant challenge for me and I will grab any support I can get.

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Do or do not - there is no try. - Yoda

23 MAY 2013 | Posted in coaching, effective meetings | Author Anthony Flack

I picked up this article - Are you making this mistake at the end of your meetings? - on LinkedIn, via a connection of mine over at Ceridian drawing my attention to it. I have read it a couple of times and it is certainly worth a read.

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Bucket Lists

23 MAY 2013 | Posted in adventure, bucket lists, fun, Governance, risk | Author John Wright

I read a great blog entry today on The View Inside Me and thought that maybe organisations should have bucket lists too!

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Trust

14 MAY 2013 | Posted in agile business change, collaboration, communication, productivity, software delivery, trust | Author John Wright |

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While I was working with one of my clients a few years a go, I was given a book to read by the CEO. "The Speed of Trust". I read the book with a healthy dose of scepticism having read many management books in the past. But this book resonated with the core principles of Agile for me.

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Skyfall - or falling from the cloud

10 MAY 2013 | Posted in cloud computing, outsourcing | Author Anthony Flack

Earlier this week I read with interest an article via the Flickboard newsfeed on my phone. It highlighted the difficulties that a number of Cloud providers find themselves in. In particular the providers who scaled up quickly with offers of free services and have not successfully converted enough custom to the chargeable model. The conclusion of the article was that this market is about to experience a significant phase of consolidation.

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Building Eden - Or how to live or die based on your project planning approach

29 APR 2013 | Posted in incremental delivery, iterative development, planning | Author Stan Wade

One of the biggest challenges I have is to get people to think incrementally and iteratively when developing software. When you have spent an entire career focusing on end-goal fixed product definitions, its hard to understand it’s all about a vision, the journey and the decisions you make on the way.

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DevOps on Windows - Fun Times installing .NET 4 over WinRM / WinRS on Windows Server 2008R2

27 APR 2013 | Posted in .Net4, DevOps, Windows, WinRm | Author Brett Delle Grazie

While assisting one of our clients in their quest to automate the construction of their environments both locally and in the cloud I came across a tricky problem that requires a little bit of background description.

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My so far unsuccessful foray into technology for my children

26 APR 2013 | Posted in coding, education | Author Anthony Flack |

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Before you start reading please be forewarned that this is not as exciting as some of the previous blogs on this site (in particular the piece about submariners and torpedoes), nor does it offer leading edge insight into anything in particular. Therefore read on at your own risk!

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Stating the Obvious

16 APR 2013 | Posted in agile governance, agile governance framework | Author Rob Smith

Former American President Calvin Coolidge once remarked, “They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our problems would take care of themselves.”

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