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Yammer: It’s A Group Thing

I first started using Yammer back in 2009 after hearing about it winning TechCrunch50, and was user number 1 on our company domain (now we have thousands of users). Its been interesting to see the organic growth from the first time I used it (I had nobody to talk to), to a community of early [...]

Moneyball

So there have been a lot of posts out there about Moneyball and how it directly relates to Agile and the Lean Startup. However, I finally got around to watching the move tonight (thanks to my colleague Renee Troughton for lending me the Blu Ray) and had to note down my own thoughts. There are [...]

Twitter Summary April 2012

A summary of my Twitter posts from April 2012:

The ‘X’ Model of Engagement

I came across the ‘X’ Model of Engagement video today from BlessingWhite, which is well worth the 7 minute investment. It demonstrates a good model for engagement, defining the roles as hamsters, crash and burners, the engaged, the disengaged, and the almost engaged. Full engagement is the intersection of the maximum contribution for the organisation [...]

8 Tips For Agile Coaches (AgileTODAY)

A couple a months ago, Adrian Smith and I were asked to put together an article for the third edition of AgileTODAY to complement a workshop we plan to run at Agile Australia  2012. Adrian and I had a whiteboard session, and we put together these 8 tips which will hopefully help aspiring Agile coaches. Introduction The Agile [...]

Rapid Software Testing

A couple of years ago I received an awesome opportunity to attend James Bach deliver his Rapid Software Testing course in Adelaide. At the time I was working with Sharon Robson from Software Education to help re-develop the Agile Testing course for the Agile Academy, and she thought it might be good for us to [...]

AWS Lean Startup Event 2012

The planets aligned this week which meant that I was in Sydney for the Amazon Web Services Regional Premier Lean Startup Event, with the highlight being able to hear from Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup. A huge thanks to my friends at Slattery IT who got me registered for this event. Here are [...]

Twitter Summary March 2012

A summary of my Twitter posts from March 2012:

Twitter Summary February 2012

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Twitter Summary January 2012

A summary of my Twitter posts from January 2012:

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