There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method
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How to be a better employee - Use Your Judgement
08 April, 2015Tags
Very often, junior colleagues ask me what they should do in a particular situation. Very often, to the point where I feel like a broken…
What’s going on with “What’s Going On”?
08 April, 2015Tags
I’ve never understood why people think Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On is a masterpiece. It’s reached the sacred cow status of an all-time…
The trouble with content management systems is that they allow people to manage content
07 April, 2015Tags
Most designers and developers have got their fair share of horror stories about clients finding cruel and unusual ways of mangling the CMS…
Panic as a Weapon at Squeaky Bum Time
04 March, 2015Tags
There are periods in some software projects when the atmosphere gets very strange. It’s what Sir Alex Ferguson would call “squeaky bum time…
How to be Rude to People you've Never Met, or How the Medium Defines Etiquette
16 February, 2015Tags
We need new mental models for modern communication methods. Think of instant messages like post-it notes.
What cycling has taught me about work
16 November, 2014Tags
Some lessons learned from cycling that can be applied to project management.
What is it about the new Amazon Echo that gives me the creeps?
11 November, 2014So Amazon have released Siri in a box. Big deal. But there’s something faintly disconcerting about it all. As the Guardian’s writer alludes…
Covers and cover versions
22 October, 2014Tags
I like cover versions. At least I do when they’re doing something interesting with the song. I don’t really see the point of recording…
Component Based Development for the Enterprise
21 October, 2014Tags
This article was originally posted on the Capgemini Engineering blog. Recently 10 members of the Drupal development team at Capgemini went…
Keeping clean: why coding standards are important
12 June, 2014Tags
Recently I had to investigate a strange bug that only happened on our pre-production environment. Code that was fine all through our other…