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Last week we reached a small, but important milestone. After 20 months we stopped monitoring the pandemic through an incident management process, and the remaining controls became part of our normal operations. A small step because we’ve had confidence in… Continue Reading →
One of the things I like about agile ways of working is that it encourages you to find the right level of structure for your team, in your context. That might be almost none where something like experimentation or discovery… Continue Reading →
It should be simple, the MET Office publishes weather warnings in an RSS feed, and Slack has an RSS app you can use to post feeds straight into channels. But it’s not. The MET Office feed contains all active weather… Continue Reading →
It can be tough knowing where to get started with Cyber Security. From the outside it can look pretty impenetrable, and the more you read the bigger it looks, and the easier it becomes to fall into the trap of… Continue Reading →
A lot of examples of how agile approaches can improve processes focus on development and change, but the principles of focusing on value, collaboration, and continuous learning is just as important in operational work. Sometimes it can be harder to… Continue Reading →
Image used with permission from Håkan Forss (https://hakanforss.wordpress.com/) who’s talk at Lean Agile Scotland in 2013 has stuck with me, given me some of the means to articulate these ides, and started me on the road to this post. Being… Continue Reading →
Scotrail has had a tough time of it this week. And that meant extra time commuting, sat on a rail-replacement bus, pondering how best to tweet something hilarious about how they couldn’t have foreseen rain, in Scotland, in January and… Continue Reading →
Tonight was my first Lean Agile Edinburgh since being asked to become a co-organiser, and it felt great to be more involved. I’ve always enjoyed attending, and more recently being able to sponsor through hosting every few months, but being… Continue Reading →
SC Magazine have put together a good write up of the roundtable discussion I was part of on Insider Threats. I think it’s a good summary of what we discussed, hopefully some folk out there will find it interesting and… Continue Reading →
It’s always inspiring to spend time with experts, with a passion for what they do. This morning I was invited along to an SCMagazine roundtable discussion on the Insider Threat, in the tower at the National Museum of Scotland, and… Continue Reading →