Things I have learned this week: - searching on the Internet usually yields the answer to anything - first day of school is considerably more stressful for parents than children - explaining product concepts to a complete stranger hones the mind Next week: It's Social Media Week London - why not come and join us on Tuesday … Continue reading Weeknote 213: Braveheart
You've got to love the Internet. Find a challenge that you haven't come across before? Tippetty-tap on Google and before you know it you've found someone who has already. And so it has been with the issues of agile approaches to software delivery in the context of collaboration tools that I mentioned earlier this week. … Continue reading Collaborative personae
I'm very lucky to live in the stereotypical leafy South West London suburb of Teddington. Close to the open spaces of Richmond and Bushy Parks, with a thriving local independent shopping centre, great schools and other amenities. The best way to illustrate what sort of a place Teddington is is when I saw dog poo … Continue reading Leading questions
I've been immersing myself back in the world of agile methods in the past couple of weeks, and one thing above all else has been striking me; agile methods are focused on the individual. This is particularly notable because I'm thinking about the ways in which collaborative software could help to improve the ways in … Continue reading The individualism of software development
Things I have learned this week: - that the boundaries of where agile is good and agile is bad are very unclear - being based in London for more than a couple of days a week makes you bump into people you know - coding is the developer's hammer to a world exclusively of nails - clearing … Continue reading Weeknote 212: limits of agility
So the much-hyped Apple product launch event came and went. A couple of new (bigger) phones, a payment system and a new album from a bunch of has-beens. Oh, and a watch. Apple Watch. Not iWatch because someone else bear them to that brand. A new "form factor-defining" product from Cupertino? Now let's be clear … Continue reading Who’s watching?
I've a few events coming up in the early autumn... On September 23rd I'll be taking part in an event organised in conjunction between IG Digital and Zoodikers to launch the report on the research project I conducted for IG over the summer on the use of social and digital channels in customer engagement. The report … Continue reading Upcoming events
A long-standing friend of my mother's asked me to take a look at their PC this evening. It's the sort of thing that happens once in a while when people know that you "do computers", and to to fair I quite enjoy it in the same way that I quite enjoy a Sudoku puzzle once … Continue reading Twelve months with Chromebook
What I have learned this week:- HDMI can plug straight into DVI (dull, but has changed my use of monitors (and hence my posture), all with a £5 cable...)- Every organisation is defined by it's abbreviations (three-letter or otherwise)- Collaboration is a team sport (my new favourite aphorism)- Agile is incredibly individualistic (blog post to … Continue reading Weeknote 211: OHMS
The research that I have been recently undertaking for IG Digital has been highlighting a distinction that has been apparent to me for some time now. Whilst individuals tend to regard social networks as a means for two-way communications, organisations primarily view social media as an opportunity to transmit information, to broadcast.This is evident in the … Continue reading Networks versus media
