Category: Thoughts
Exponentially Digital, welcome!
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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Home Affairs reveals Australian authorities already using new encryption powers
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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The 3-Step Evening Ritual That Will Make You Happy
The important psychological effects of regular writing habits.
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As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants – The New York Times
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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Agile & Project Governance: Can They Coexist?
A great article from Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software on how to align project governance and agile frameworks…
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Agile Team Velocity: How to Estimate the Impact of Time Off
Thoughts Written by Andrew Newbury Friday 21 June, 2019 Thoughts 0...
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Agile Project Kickoff Meetings: How & Why to Conduct Them.
A great article from Mike Cohn of Mountain Goat Software on project kick off meetings and why they can (even!) be used Agile environments…
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NZ customs can now demand phone or laptop passwords
Thoughts Friday 21 June, 2019 Thoughts Image by ev on Unsplash The New Zealand...
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Agile – building a high performing team
Building a high performing team starts with careful observation, dedication and commitment.
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Agile – how to document a "proper" handover
How you leave tells you something about a person, about their passion and about what’s important to them. It can be a simple act like pushing your chair in after a meeting, pushing all the chairs in, cleaning the whiteboards even if you didn’t use them, leaving something in a better state than you found it. Below is the text of my handover notes published on Confluence ten days before our team was disbanded…
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Saying goodbye: the hardest
Saying “goodbye” to an awesome team is so very, very hard. What have we learned? I’ll warrant more about ourselves through each other than we’d have learned alone. Two quotes have been swimming in my mind tonight, one from the Bard and one from a seminal film.
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Agile team size
What’s the “right” Agile team size? Smaller is better. A collection of excerpts and quotes on Agile team size, you may find this useful in discussion with Product Owners and those “paying the bills”. Empirical data is paramount to show how and why a specific team size is best in your situation…
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Agile software development
This post is the text of an article I wrote and internally published on Friday, 27th April 2018 while working at NBN Australia to provide an Iteration Manager aka Scrum Master retrospective the day before our next Program Increment planning session. It’s from a point in time where the Iteration Manager (me!) was looking at what’s changed and what challenges are still to come for the development team.
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Software engineering alumni interview, Monash University
As a post graduate of the Monash University Computing department I was approached to answer a number of interview questions aimed at helping current students understand the types of roles available in industry and what faculty graduates were doing in their roles many years later. Below is the text of my response.
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