January, 2019
31 January 2019
I once watched a talk where the speaker explained how each person has their own reality. We tend to think of ourselves like a camera with one dialogue but really everyone is seeing different things with different realities.
30 January 2019
As I’ve moved into a management role in a larger organization I’ve struggled with understanding where the boundaries are with friendships with the people I work with. Up to now in my career I’ve pretty much considered everyone a “friend” and pushed for a connection. Why this is I’m not...
18 January 2019
I’ve recently been thinking around retention in the software development world. Why do some companies have such great retention while others such poor retention. It’s a complex topic but today I wanted to write about a little framework I came across called the ACM Framework.
08 January 2019
See 2020’s Things to read and watch
See 2018’s Things to read and watch
07 January 2019
Chapter 13 - Company level vision and strategic intents
December, 2018
26 December 2018
5 keys to good handwriting
26 December 2018
Genevere favorite
03 December 2018
November, 2018
29 November 2018
Transtheoretical Model
28 November 2018
Summary
28 November 2018
Goals for the session
26 November 2018
Only two in five employers believe the education system is doing a good job of preparing people for organisations like their own. Businesses are responding by offering on-the-job training, mentoring and coaching as a way of organically developing the skills they need.
19 November 2018
One of our mentors recently left our org to join another one, while with us they were a mentor in our academy. These were some of the feedback I got from him before he left on the experience of mentoring…
19 November 2018
NFRs are essentially those important cogs in the wheel that appear to be trivial but have a bigger impact if ignored.
19 November 2018
Some great reading material for new developers…
19 November 2018
I recently wrote about asking questions. On a similar vein of thought a common characteristic I see with inexperienced professional software developers is the fear to ask the “dumb” question.
19 November 2018
In a traditional SDLC each stage of the process has had segmenting around the responsibilities. At an extreme, this means each functional area is owned by a different person/role:
19 November 2018
I’m going through an email bucket clean up. I tend to group my emails into buckets, one bucket I call ticklers. In ticklers I store things that I come across on the web that I don’t have time to handle immediately but that I find interesting and worth coming back...
18 November 2018
Eight Big Ideas of Learning
16 November 2018
Software craftmanship / craftpersonship appeals to people who feel software is more of vocation than just a job. I know there are many people that feel this way that do not like the “craft” title. While there is some debate in the gender appropriateness of the word the sentiment is...
