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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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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Register for this free online talk on re-employing agile – embracing agility outside traditional software development – Friday 8 October 2021, 14:00 AEST.
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But how much do you absorb, what do you learn from your time investment? An interesting article from Farnam Street on something that we all do an awful lot of.
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Creepy new ways that you are being tracked https://youtu.be/j1FfVK6sj4I from TheHatedOne’s...
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My recent NBN journey to HFC and how to repurpose an ASUS ADSL modem.
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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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Scrum Master / Iteration Manager / Agile Coach / Delivery Lead – looking for a new role due to COVID-19 cutbacks.
Deep expertise in delivery leadership with lean-agile frameworks, Scrum, SAFe, Kanban and waterfall. Experienced agile coach, program architect and former principal management consultant. Key attributes around organising and structuring, ensuring business value is delivered through enabling and managing application and web development, consulting, infrastructure and architecture teams with multiple sourcing models. Broad and deep technical background. Able to rapidly identify and implement what needs to be done to achieve success for you, your organisation and your customers.
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1,150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, documentaries from Open Culture
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A step by step guide on how to reduce Facebook’s ability to directly capture what you do online.
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Change. Why consistency is everything and how new players like Facebook still have to deal with the legacy of change and inconsistent code causing an inconsistent user experience.
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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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Welcome to this site’s new domain name “Exponentially Digital”. Why the change? I’m glad you asked…[read on to know why]
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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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We’re entering a strange new world of fresh opportunity, quantum computing is moving forward. Fifty odd years ago a computer filled a building, now they’re in our hands, one day too this will come to pass for quantum computing. All things in time, for those with patience…
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The important psychological effects of regular writing habits.
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Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed including access to private user messages; tools to enhance your privacy if you simply can’t stop using Facebook.
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Yep, we’ve all been there managing an ever decreasing amount of storage on our favorite weapon of choice. A short post to plug Windows and Android tools to assist.
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A great article from Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software on how to align project governance and agile frameworks…
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