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re-employing agile – event recording, audio, slide deck and transcript

re-employing agile – event recording, audio, slide deck and transcript

Saturday 9 Oct, 2021 | Agile, Scrum, Teams

On Friday, 8 October 2021 I gave an online talk for the Access Agile Freestival on my experiences with “re-employing” agile – how agile can be embraced by non-software development teams. This page contains a video recording of the talk plus other resources including an audio-only version of the talk together with the slides I presented and a transcript of my speaker notes.

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What is the metaverse, and do I have to care? – The Verge

What is the metaverse, and do I have to care? – The Verge

Wednesday 6 Oct, 2021 | Thoughts

A “replacement” for the Internet, Web 3.x, metaspace, metaverse, metauniverse, NFTs, persistent virtual presence, augmented and virtual reality. Lots of words and phrases to describe the continuing cultural and technical shift in URL (unreal life, as opposed to IRL – in real life). A thought provoking article from the Verge on developments in this space.

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Free lockdown tech reading – building secure and reliable systems

Free lockdown tech reading – building secure and reliable systems

Sunday 31 May, 2020 | Cloud

Have you found yourself retagging your music collection (like, really who has an offline collection these days?) and how many films and streaming series can you watch before sticking a fork in your eye might be a worthy distraction? The complete 557 page book from O’Reilly “Building Secure and Reliable Systems” free and with the compliments of Google Cloud 🙂

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Cookie Party

Cookie Party

Sunday 23 Jun, 2019 | Software, Web

Cookie Monster is one of my favourite Sesame Street characters, especially the unrivalled hunger for his namesake. I was reminded of this by a two day old Washington Post article titled “Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s web browser has become spy software“. This article goes into some depth about how we are individually being tracked online, the impact of this and how often there is scant knowledge of why this is happening and what the outcome is for us and the purveyors of Internet sites and services…[read on for solutions to this]

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Home Affairs reveals Australian authorities already using new encryption powers

Home Affairs reveals Australian authorities already using new encryption powers

Thursday 31 Jan, 2019 | Thoughts

This is how it starts, how under the guise of “security” our freedom and privacy is stripped away. A thoroughly bad law has been implemented and supported by both sides of Australian politics. What’s worse than the impact on our individual privacy is what it means for the state of cryptography across the entire Internet: purposefully allowing back doors to be built into core components of the technology foundation is ripe for abuse by both state and non state actors.

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