Digital by Default

Tag: agile

  • An alpha alpha approach

    Mr Downey spurred a bit of conversation on Twitter about the idea of ‘alpha’ stages in the GDS delivery cycle. One of the responses was from Martin — which I liked up to a point but it also didn’t totally work for me and part of that was the terminology — unfortunately MVP has attracted so much baggage at…

  • Sloganeering for stickers

    Shit I say…and why I think this was Paul Downey’s laptop If I was to do a series of stickers (why stickers?) I think this is what they would say (and why)→ 01. Minimal viable bureaucracy — I’m not one of those JFDI people. I believe that is the fastest way to get something done that will not stick.…

  • Scalzi school of agile

    John Scalzi is one of my favourite authors — Warren Ellis (not a bad writer himself) calls his work “frictionless high-speed platinum-pulp science fiction storytelling” which seems to sum it up. His stuff reminds me of the best of Joss Whedon — without really being much like it. Anyway this isn’t about that. In his latest novel (which I…

  • Westrum World

    Back in May I read ‘Accelerate’ — I’m a big fan and have encouraged a number of colleagues, friends and passers by to check it out. It is significantly influencing my thinking on our ‘lean software’ practice at Notbinary and how we can best provide the kind of service that genuinely supports ‘transformation’. The recent publication of…

  • The Practical Democracy Project: New Zealand edition

    Wednesday was the day of the Delib ‘Practical Democracy’ event — the reason why I am currently on the other side of the world. It was a fun day in a lovely room (with amazing food) at the National Library — particular highlights for me were the presentations from Anna Brown — whose background as a book designer meant she had…