Andrew Male

30 days

This seems like an interesting life hack from Matt Cutts so I’m going to give it a go and try something new for 30 days. Actually, stop and start something. Perhaps not as exciting as some of Matt’s challenges but (…)

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One minute idea

I’ve just joined University of York as the Head of Web Services. Last week we started a simple practice which aims to do two things: Get the team together every day Spend an hour each week working on something as (…)

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New Theme

The legibility of the theme I was using wasn’t great so I’ve switched to using the “Modernist” theme.

Agile focus

I’ve come to realise why I am interested in agile software development and project management. It’s because I think organisations need to change and I have a vision of what they might look like in the future. This morning I’ve (…)

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Quick user stories and HTML5 storage

After reading Mike Cohn’s post “Advantages of the ‘as a’, ‘I want’ user story template” I started thinking about the simplest and quickest way to create and capture stories. I’ve been using Evernote a lot recently and it’s a good (…)

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Little’s Law

Through anecdotes and observation I know that limiting Work in Progress (WIP) is a good way for teams to focus on delivering stories and ensure that bottlenecks don’t occur. However, until recently I clearly explain why until I came across (…)

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BSUG Poster

Done is really done

It’s so reassuring to be able to experience the benefits of practices that you read about. On our last sprint we deployed our completed stories into the live application as they were completed meaning done is really done. Pushing work (…)

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Bath User Group kick-off meeting

This post is long over due but hopefully it will be the impetus for organising regular meetings of the group in 2010. 6 Weeks after I first suggested the idea of creating a local Scrum user group we held first (…)

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Bath Scrum User Group

I want to organise a local Scrum User Group that meets regularly to discuss Scrum and share experiences. This week I attended the Wessex Scrum User Group near Southampton to get an idea of what might be involved. Since training (…)

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