Reading time: 3 mins One of the challenges the team will face this year is how to coordinate the creation of product documentation with geographically dispersed teams, across different product lines. At present we have engineering teams in Glasgow, Belfast, Limerick, Jakarta, Sunnyvale CA, and Bedford NH, building four products and maintaining five other legacy applications. Currently we have six technical…
Reading time: 2 mins Dumbarton Common, rainfall at dusk, originally uploaded by Gordon. The train pulls out of the station, slowly gathers speed as I head to my home town. I am cocooned in steel, my music and my own thoughts. Face tingling from the fresh air. There are several stops to be made, familiar names from my past.…
Reading time: < 1 min I aspire. I desire. (I perspire). I want. But, it seems, it’s just not meant to be. Whilst I can appreciate art in many forms, place value on the productions of others, it seems that I’m just not particularly creative. Not that I can’t be creative to a certain level but I’ve long since realised…
Reading time: < 1 min Looking forward is always a good thing, but I’m going to start this year by looking back at the lessons to be learned. Things I will need to improve upon include better planning of work, there is one big project that I will head up that needs to be delivered by September, so I’ll be…
Reading time: 2 mins Around this time last year I realised that I had already begun my resolution. Not that I do the whole New Year Resolution thing, and technically this change of attitude had already kicked in but, regardless, it became a bit of a theme for me. Largely my focus was to avoid negativity and, for the…