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Webstock – I was blown away!
Webstock is one of those events I have always wanted to attend, ever since it started when I was at Xero. But for some reason or other I never managed to make it. This year I finally sorted my shit and made it and I was blown away! (and now regret not find the time to […]
Constantly providing something for free, its not normal (until now)
When you get offered something for free do you start feeling uncomfortable, looking for the fishhook? For me it depends, if its a Software as a Service app, there are so many that are offered for free these days, its a new norm, so i'm happy to take it (understanding...
It’s ok to fail, just don’t
constantly fail doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome. There is a whole philosophy at the moment around fail fast and fail often. The idea being that by working out what doesn't work, you'll find what does work quicker. And that finding out quickly...
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Its often not what you do, its how you do it
The other day I redeemed a reward from Flybuys (whoot freebie!) and went into Noel Lemming to pick it up. Flybuys (Loyalty NZ) have made it so easy these days, no more waiting for a piece of paper to arrive via snail mail (sorry NZ Post yet another nail), you just...
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SFT – Keeping yourself honest, customers will like the experience.
One of our 3 values is "Don't be dodgy". Its a value we don't have plastered on our walls anywhere, we don't have it framed as a picture, but we do use it to test things against when we decide to do them. In the world of Search Engine Optimisation there are ways of...
Mentoring as a Service Experiment
As part of the Agile week at BoostAgile, they gave me a copy of the lean startup book to read. I liked it One of the things I really liked was the concept of creating experiments to prove or disprove an idea or concept. Its one of the things we have been doing...
SFT – The art of Innovation – break it and then fix it
Innovation is a popular word these days in business. Good old Wikipedia defines it as "Innovation is the application of better solutions that meet new requirements, inarticulated needs, or existing market needs." But being innovative is not simple. And often the...
Day 1 – Overview, Vision, Scope and Accountability
So day one is down and it was a day of setting the vision and starting the definition of the scope (the Dev team were off sick, so it was only a 1/2 a day) The Process The day started with a quick whiteboard overview of the entire Agile Scrum Framework and this...
I’m getting flexible – a week of Agile ahead
I love learning new stuff! The six months I spent at Xero has probably been my most intensive learning experience I have had, and in retrospect it was due to the fact it was total immersion, completely focussed on delivery (having Rod Drury walking the floor behind...
Dynamic Data Driven Urls coming in SAS VA 6.3
Kathryn has just spent part of last week mentoring a SAS VA customer in Australia. We love this type of work because we help out customers help themselves (rather than black boxing delivery and forcing them to pay us for every change) and because we always learn new...