Part 1 Recap — Start of the new Millennium: Building Relationships was about having a personal interest with people. Giving them encouragement and establishing trust. Remote Working was greatly restricted by lack of technology, infrastructure and the business operating model did not set up teams for it. Working from home…

Over recent days there has inevitably been a focus and a range of opinion on remote working and I thought I would think about and share some of my personal experience over almost two decades. Through our reflections we might be able to make the best decisions we can for…

The need for balanced capabilities In the company I work for we have used an assessment for a number of years on people’s “Core Capabilities”, which come in three blocks of three. Create Business Value: Building Customer Loyalty Applying Analytical Insight Thinking Broadly Driving Inclusion and Engagement: Collaborate and Influence …

Setting SMART and Aligned Personal Development Goals….One approach. Each year in large companies there is a time when there is an extra focus on our personal development plan goals. I say extra focus as we have made this an arbitrary thing that we pencil into the Calendar year (and we…

Welcome to Part 3 of our People and Code series: Mob Cleaning. In part 1 we looked at the history of the code review (I prefer thinking of this as a “Solution Walkthrough”) and reflected on how this process should have evolved along with technology advancements and adoption of Agile development practices. These agile practices introducing the People element to code. In…

In part one of this mini series we took at look at “The Code Review” and how it has been evolving alongside our development methodology and team structure. A thought provoking tweet by Neil Killick since I published that blog: “ Code reviews are generally inferior to pairing & mobbing…

Over a number of years in the software industry I have experienced changes to how we work together as people, the tools that change our collaboration options and the code itself. I have worked for the majority of this time in a number of different development teams as a developer…

Our agile transformation and now company transformations have been treated like the adoption of many new tools and processes. We list all the bad points of our existing tools and processes and laugh in derision at whoever decided we should do that in the first place. We promote all the…

For those of us who work as “knowledge workers”, or whatever the latest in vogue term is, we often struggle to switch off and leave our work in the office at the end of the working day. …