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Demand Technical Excellence
Understanding Complexity In his book Solving Tough Problems, Adam Kahane describes 3 types of complexity: dynamic, generative, and social. Dynamic complexity describes the time and distance between...
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The Quality Responsibility
A few weeks ago I was facilitating a session with a group of people responsible for delivering a software platform to support a number of very large institutions in complex markets. The session was...
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Value, Flow and Quality
The PMI Announcement As a result of the news that the PMI have endorsed Agile Project Management I was doing some reading around the topic and came across this article. The question posed seems like a...
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A bigger ball of mud
The most common architecture 5 years ago I inherited a big ball of mud. It was an exemplar of ‘this most frequently deployed of software architectures’ described in the paper written in 1999 by Brian...
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The IT Mindset and Managing Vendors
A slave to the business? Have you ever come across someone who, when asked, tells you they work in IT? I wonder about this answer, what it means, who they actually work for, and why they don’t tell you...
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The Power of Environment
I read an article by Seth Godin the other day. In it he said that the average worker is going straight to the bottom. The workplace has changed so much over recent time, that workers should not be...
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From a customer’s perspective
In most organisations IT is a central function. It started off as the experts who ran large mainframes with huge tapes. Weird science to many of the day. Even, Tom Watson of IBM predicted there would...
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Predicting the future?
Have you ever wondered what education might look like in 50 years? Could this affect your business? Do you know what future skills your business might need? The internet is changing many things, not...
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Infamous
Have you ever seen a program or show by Derren Brown? If so, you might believe magic does exist in some real sense. What he does during a show is nothing short of breathtaking and has people scratching...
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How does your culture enable growth and creativity?
Have you ever had someone come into your house without taking their shoes off? This is one of those things in our house that really ruffles my wife’s feathers. We have two small children. That means we...
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