November, 2018
16 November 2018
Identify who in the team are value adders in conversations and who are the drainers… often that is a good heuristic to identifying the people you want to keep and the people you want to have move on in your team.
16 November 2018
In working in our graduate programme I’m noticing a general trend, the urge for graduate developers to write as much code as possible regardless of the situation.
15 November 2018
Notes based off research paper available here
06 November 2018
Argument for convincing someone to do something
02 November 2018
A while back I read somewhere how it was really important to select your mentors carefully because mentee’s tend to mimic their mentors.
October, 2018
24 October 2018
I’ve recently been investing time in our Graduate programme. I’ve seen several different suggestions on how to best put them together. This was one suggestion that someone sent through to me.
August, 2018
24 August 2018
Keyboard Shortcuts
20 August 2018
14 August 2018
01 August 2018
These notes are based on the talk #NoEstiamtes by Allen Holub
July, 2018
23 July 2018
These are notes from San Kaner’s talk on Participatory Decision Making in Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration given at UC Berkley School of Public Health on 25 of August 2011.
23 July 2018
I’ve recently had the privilege of leading a development team where we had a mix of personalities and mindsets. It was incredibly useful to have this mix—different people in the team saw things from totally different angles which I believe led to us making better decisions as a team (provided...
21 July 2018
I’m not sure who originally wrote this, but I had it as a contribution to a private repo I was working on and saw value in making it public…
June, 2018
28 June 2018
The word “mentorship” is a loaded word, it means different things in different contexts to different people. I’ve seen software mentorship takes on two main forms:
28 June 2018
I recently read a post by Johannes Brodwall titled “Forget Clean Code, let’s embrace Compassionate Code”. I recommend it as a read because it made me think, and thinking is good!
27 June 2018
My first intentional experience around mentorship in software development began in June 2014 - I know because I made a note about it which I still have. The note said that “formal mentorship” was new to us (the us being the small consultancy I worked for), that as a company...
12 June 2018
More Fearless Change is a patterns based book on introducing change in an organization. I found it extremely useful to read, it re-affirmed some patterns that I’m already comfortable with applying and highlighted some patterns that I need to work on.
May, 2018
16 May 2018
One way to increase your mobs understanding of how to work and communicate better with each other is by sharing your personality traits with each other.
07 May 2018
In 2017 over a two month period I hosted a Online Mob Programming Survey with the aim to get a wider community perspective on Mob Programming.
April, 2018
30 April 2018
Episode 1
