September, 2019
04 September 2019
Situation - state of affairs, fact based, unambigous, non-controversial
Complication - what’s changed, making things harder
Question - questions raised by S and C
Answer - answer-first, pyramid-shaped, evidence-based, resolves C 100%
August, 2019
16 August 2019
SaaS Metrics 2.0 – Detailed Definitions
12 August 2019
Benefits of async comms
July, 2019
25 July 2019
Based off the following TED talk Peter Doolittle: How your “working memory” makes sense of the world
24 July 2019
This post is still being fleshed out. Come back later for more meaningful information.
23 July 2019
At MYOB we’ve been improving our graduate programme for software developers. Today I would like to share some of the insights we’ve gained over the last few years around a practice I call technical mentorship.
22 July 2019
Where I work we’ve been improving our graduate programme for software developers. Today I would like to share some of the insights we’ve gained over the last few years around how to do this better.
19 July 2019
Based off the following podcast https://www.codependencynomore.com/session19/o
19 July 2019
Today I want to spend some time thinking through what to look for when hiring a graduate software developer. Prior to being involved in our graduate programme I would never have thought this was an interesting question. As I dig more into it I’m realizing what an interesting question it...
16 July 2019
Below are some basic coding problems. If you have never coded before these are good problems to start off with.
15 July 2019
I’ve recently been looking into Lev Vygotsky’s model of “The Zone of Proximal Development” or ZPD.
09 July 2019
Notes based off [Developing a Computer Computer Science specific Learning Taxonomy] paper.
08 July 2019
Three types of responses
07 July 2019
03 July 2019
I recently co-facilitated a community Code Retreat with a friend of mine. For those not familiar with what a Code Retreat is you can learn more about them on the Global Day of Code Retreat site.
01 July 2019
Things you need to do as a people leader
Putting out fires
Budgeting time and money
Managing customers
Juggling resources and people
Meetings, meetings and meetings
Dealing with conflicts
May, 2019
28 May 2019
I’ve been burn’t by certifications. I grew up in the days of Mircosoft Dev Certifications. The way it worked is you would pay a substantial amount of money to do a Microsoft Certified Developer Course. The sales pitch was once certified you would earn massive amounts of money. I knew...
April, 2019
10 April 2019
I recently listened to an episode of one of my favorite podcast shows called “The Hidden Brain”. The title of the episode was “Don’t Panic: Stories of Coping Amongst Chaos” and while I enjoyed the whole episode a particular segment stood out to me. It was about a study conducted...
March, 2019
31 March 2019
I have for a while believed that for an organisation to stay relevant and improve it needs to embrace a learning culture. My attempts to create that culture in the past have been mixed.
February, 2019
15 February 2019
This week we had a group of 22 people attend our first soft skills mentoring workshop. One of the items we went through on the day was identifying different mentoring “hats” that people wear.
