2008
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Elbow
I really don’t know why I didn’t do this last week, and since a few other bloggers have since been to see them, and they share my view that this is very much a band to see live, I feel chagrined into writing up my thoughts about the Elbow gig I attended a couple of…
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Friday night
To celebrate the recent release of our product, the Development group had a wee night out, as is our wont. A few of us (you know, the sensible ones) congregated in a Pizza Express for some food then nipped across the road to catchup with everyone else in Stavka, a vodka bar. It was a…
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Retrospectives
Last week I spent most of my time facilitate our retrospectives, that is I spent a lot of time chairing meetings, encouraging and monitoring debate, and far too much time manipulating Post-It notes. Let me explain. Within the development group, we base our working practices on Agile development and part of that suggests that at…
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Portishead
After a fairly epic night out on Friday (why do I drink vodka shots when I don’t really like vodka…?), I was a little fuzzy round the edges on Saturday. I was also completely knackered having spent most of my week facilitating meetings, which is far more tiring than both it sounds and that I…
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Recently Read
Another week has zoomed past, and I’m only now catching up! I’ve been helping out with our development group retrospectives… but more on that later. For now, here are a few things that caught my eye this past week. Gatekeeper vs. team member Whilst not directly talking about technical writing, there are some good points…
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Are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Sshhhhh. I’m thinking. I’m thinking about what to write. I’m thinking that I’m not sure where the tub of Polyfilla is, I’m hoping it didn’t get thrown out. I’m thinking that I shouldn’t really be writing this post as my entire week is chock full of meetings and I need to grab every single available…