Oct 25Agile gardening adventuresInspired by @liannemellor and her agile gardening post, here’s my take on agile ways of working through the medium of an allotment diary. Gardening is rich with workplace metaphors. A propagator = an environment for safe-to-fail experiments. Those that work go into the greenhouse (we scale). Those that don’t we learn something about our environment which…Agile3 min readAgile3 min read
Jan 3, 2022The human side of delivery in a remote worldThere are three parts to what I call the Human side of Delivery — those things we can do to make things more human in a digital and often remote world. Note what is covered here is not an exhaustive list; it is, I hope, the start of a wider…Delivery Management7 min readDelivery Management7 min read
Feb 12, 2021Helping our colleagues to be good StakeholdersFollowing on from my ‘How to be a good stakeholder’ post, here are a few ideas and suggestions designed to help you help your colleagues to be good Stakeholders and so you can work in harmony together. Write a Wiki Wikis are a great way to share important information with…Agile8 min readAgile8 min read
Feb 11, 2021How to be a good StakeholderThere’s a real dearth of articles out there on how to be a good stakeholder — it’s all variations of managing or taming the difficult ones. It made me wonder if many stakeholders know what the role involves and what good looks like. Do they receive training or guidance? Do…Agile5 min readAgile5 min read
Feb 13, 2020Recruiting with kindness aka the Footasylum WayForget Shock and Awe, it was Wow and Woo when Footasylum came a-knocking — Finding a job is hard, as is the joining bit. You do all the running and you have to go the full Liam Neeson at times (I will find you). Contracts take an age to appear. Candidate-friendly orgs switch into auto onboarding machines once the ink is dry. Pay and…4 min read4 min read
Feb 12, 2020Being your Self at workWhat is Self in the context of the workplace? It is a multi-dimensional thing, as are you. The power of ‘Self’ transforms adjectives into personal standards, a higher calling. It also represents our darker side, the reflection in the mirror we cannot face. Being your Self at work is the…1 min read1 min read
Oct 26, 2019Adventures in Service Design with Gov Jam LiverpoolThis week I took part in my first GovJam and I had my first experience of service design and the designing of a service. This was a big thing. …Design6 min readDesign6 min read
Jul 29, 2019Dial M for McKinleyDipping my toe into microfiction. This story was inspired by a character I encountered many years ago. It is pure fantasy, the revenge you dream of but you know will never happen, obvs. Enjoy (hopefully). If you have a difficult client that just won’t pay, dial M for Mckinley… “I’ll never ppaayyyy!” shrieked Joe. It was the sort of shriek that could cut through…Fiction2 min readFiction2 min read
Jun 21, 2019Weekly Notes #5Well, we made it, dear reader, to Friday, Fri-yay, or as the French call it, Le Weekend. Expect some flow, profundity (not mine), meet-ups magic and my hopes for future work. Stay strong, dear reader, it only takes a minute, girl (or boy), to read this blog. Let it flow, people I finally understand…Agile3 min readAgile3 min read
Jun 14, 2019Weekly Notes #4Despite the limiting factor of time, I’ve managed to fire off an adequate set of notes. Less exuberance, more substance? Read on, dear reader, read on, for you make me whole… Boiled Frog Syndrome - Last week it was the Cobra Effect, this week’s animal in the spotlight is the humble frog aka Boiled…Writing3 min readWriting3 min read
