Category Archives: working life

Doing Architecture with Agile Teams

Posted on Thursday, 16th May 2013 by Chris F Carroll

Alan Gawthorpe & I a talk last month on doing architecture with agile teams: Doing Architecture with Agile Teams IASA UK Summit 2013 from Chris Carroll We did the session agile-style: We had cards for our topics, and the ‘customers’ … Continue reading →

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Basic SEO and the stuff we do for friends (looking at you, Rachel Kevern!)

Posted on Sunday, 21st April 2013 by Chris F Carroll

A friend of name, a teenage actor, asked me about SEO stuff earlier today. She has a website and was concerned it wasn’t rising up the rankings very well. Using a third party website site doesn’t give you a huge … Continue reading →

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Agile Adoption

Posted on Tuesday, 16th April 2013 by Chris F Carroll

If a team or organisation wants to adopt agile, should they do it all in one, or gradually? How do you overcome problems in agile adoption? Agile Principles when Adopting Agile Agile is not about process and methodology; it’s about … Continue reading →

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Can a Contract Cope with Changing Requirements?

Posted on Thursday, 21st March 2013 by Admin

It’s been decades since software people started to think about how to cope with requirements changing during the course of an engagement, though other areas of endeavour have surely been doing it since the stone age. Literally. The state of … Continue reading →

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IT Success and Failure — the Standish Group CHAOS Report Success Factors

Posted on Thursday, 7th March 2013 by Chris F Carroll

The Standish Group have been famously (notoriously) publishing their CHAOS Report with IT project success/failure/challenged rates since 1994. “XXX% of all IT projects fail!” headlines are doubtless responsible for their fortuitous fame but they have also attempted to analyse ‘success … Continue reading →

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Outlook 2011 Mac hangs with IMAP – Folder Sync

Posted on Wednesday, 3rd October 2012 by Chris F Carroll

Ignoring all the other problems with using Outlook 2011, one problem I had and solved: Having set it to use IMAP, I then set the Preferences – Accounts – Advanced – Sync IMAP folders every xxx minutes to OFF. Which … Continue reading →

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Software Quality — the Whole not the Parts

Posted on Wednesday, 3rd October 2012 by Chris F Carroll

Ben Higginbottom makes a significant point right at the top of this question about the Knight Capital fiasco: Was the Knight Capital fiasco related to Release Management? On August 1, 2012, Knight Capital Group had a very bad day, losing … Continue reading →

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Weave The People Technology for Connecting People

Posted on Wednesday, 11th May 2011 by Chris F Carroll

Weave The People is a cute bit of technology led by a friend of mine, that helps you to get the most out of meetings by getting people to interact and think before the meeting starts. Pragmatically it gives you … Continue reading →

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