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Plan The Work But Don’t Work The Plan
I tweeted yesterday something that I had overheard to which a friend of mine, Toby then responded. As Toby then went on to suggest, the five tweets that I responded back with were a great analogy for...
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The Cost of Hidden Work
I’ve been working with one of the teams here recently all of whom have been feeling that the pace at which they deliver features is slower than they would like. I’ve run a number of sessions in order...
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Not Time Boxing or Commitments but Managing Risk by Using SLAs
Recently, I’ve been working closely with one of the teams here and consequently have lead some changes to the dashboard that they keep for use in their planning sessions with stakeholders and for my...
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Lessons Learned Working in a Service Company Servicing Large Projects
I was fortunate enough recently to attend LeanCamp, an unconference organised by Salim Virani and aimed at people interested in the Lean Startup meme. I was reminded the other day of one of the...
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Output from the Session I Proposed at the UK Agile Coaches Gathering, 2010
At the recent UK Agile Coaches Gathering (held at the magnificent Bletchley Park), the theme for which was Helping People Grow, I proposed a session titled “Leaving a Legacy, How Do You Leave an...
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Experimentation: A Pattern for Affecting Measured Change
Note: This post is based almost entirely on one of the things that I took away having attended a talk titled “Agile Coaching Tips” by Rachel Davies held at Skills Matter but perhaps overlooked at the...
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Using The Voice Of the Customer As Input For A Retrospective
Previously, I have worked with a team whose overall effectiveness has been called in to question by people who the team interfaced with. Upon further investigation it became clear that the perception...
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Do we need clearer roles and responsibilities?
Why are people are still preaching that better, more clearly articulated roles and responsibilities will improve productivity? Provide a transparent environment where people have a clear understanding...
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Iterating an ansible task using a dictionary object of variables
Recently we have been writing ansible scripts to deploy one of our applications. In doing so, we came across the need to configure 3 node processes as services. All of these node processes used a...
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Getting Image and Flavor information from the Rackspace API
At Gamevy we’re lucky enough to have been accepted onto the Rackspace UK Startup Programme. In combination with that, we’ve been using Ansible to deploy new servers, and perform application...
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Lessons Learned Working in a Service Company Servicing Large Projects
I was fortunate enough recently to attend LeanCamp, an unconference organised by Salim Virani and aimed at people interested in the Lean Startup meme. I was reminded the other day of one of the...
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Private key errors from Logstash when shipping logs over SSL using filebeat
We use the filebeat shipper to ship logs from our various servers, over to a centralised ELK server to allow people access to production logs. Because the logs are shipped from various data centres,...
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