First some background: I am a 47 year old mother of three. I graduated with a 1st class honours degree…
Four episodes of sexism at tech community events, and how I came out of them (eventually) positive
It is a sad but undeniable fact that our industry remains rife with gender issues. Coming through any form…
Diagnosis day
I deliberated a lot before getting assessed for autism. Like several years a lot. I even wondered what it would…
The Tag Team: Tools, Tasks and Roles in Collaborative Software Development
Click the link below to access a PDF copy of my PhD thesis – an ethnographic study and evaluation of…
When the culture becomes the cult
Fourteen years or so ago, when I first encountered ‘agile’ the part that really appealed to me, the bit I…
Blue hair
My Mother has bipolar disorder. In the past I have shied away from writing about it – it has taken…
6 Thinking modes for helping you get un-stuck
So I have been thinking about “stuckness”. You know, where you just feel like you are bashing your head against…
Simple Rules for Agile Chartering (with an added twist of neurodiversity)
Last week at XP2016 I attended Diana Larsen’s workshop on Simple Rules for Agile Chartering *. I walked away with…
Why you want an Autist on your tech team.
“By autistic standards the neuro typical brain is easily distractable, obsessively social and suffers from a deficit of attention to…
The case for Neurodiversity
It’s no secret that there is a link between autism and tech. Far from being a ‘disability’, neurodiversity offers so many…
Agile in the Wild 