Something strange happens to us when we hear a number. Hardly surprising, if we consider that we are likely to…
The Psychology of Change
Given all the talk these days about personal and organisational transformation I thought it would be interesting to delve a…
Three Organisational Transformation Modes
I have been thinking about the different ways I see organisations approach change and have decided to lump them into…
Why I still work with large, dysfunctional organisations (even though I should know better)
I still work with large, dysfunctional organisations
A retrospective on using the Scaled Agile Framework at Travis Perkins
Over the last year I have spent several days every month at Travis Perkins. TP have been using the Scaled…
Laying firm foundations for new distributed teams with 2-2-Go
Today I was asked for advice on how to best set-up a new distributed agile team. This reminded me of an…
I have the best job in the World
When I was a kid I loved to learn. Like REALLY loved to learn. So much so that my teacher…
10 Years of thinking about Pair Programming
Last week I gave a TalkShop at Bath Scrum Users Group that summarised my research on pair programming, touched upon…
Desirable Pair Programming Behaviours – Tag team
I have distilled my ethnographic research on pair programming into a number of observed desirable and un-desirable pair programming behaviours*.…
Agile and Introversion
Agile and Introversion I don’t really like labels. Particularly labels which are derived from multiple-choice tests. I’m not a huge…
