OKRs the Nemesis of Hidden Work

It was my 3rd week as Head of Development. “Ermm,… what happened ?… Nothing much got done this week.” The Team Lead gave me a puzzled look. “We finished quite a bit this week”. “But looking at the board,..” I replied. He smiled, “Oh I see,.. we’ve been working on a project for the Founder,”. “Ah OK, which board is that on ?” “It’s not any board,.. it’s the Founder’s project”....

August 10, 2022 · 5 min · 970 words · Me

Kanbanize Where Are We

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August 2, 2022 · 1 min · word · Me

InfoSec is just good business

"People who feel safe work harder and your biggest cost each month, by far, is wages not safety equipment." I learned this after graduating as a civil engineer. Now years later I’m an engineer in IT and it’s pretty much the same for InfoSec. Yes sure it keeps evil hackers at bay but mostly it’s just good management that gives your team more organised with much more time to move the dial forward and less time spent fixing & firefighting the unexpected....

July 23, 2022 · 8 min · 1628 words · Me

Simon attempted to deliver today...

“Simon attempted to deliver today your parcel but no one answrerd. Reschedule at: https://postoffice-depot38.com”. If you’re anything like me you’ll get two to three of these a week. I didn’t follow the link but no-doubt if I had then I’d be expected to devulge some sort of payment or some password. It’s obviously fake from the website link and whenever I receive that’s the first thing I look at. Web addresses are both easy and hard to fake....

July 20, 2022 · 2 min · 371 words · Me

Managing Work in Progress

Oh my fur and whiskers! I’m late, I’m late, I’m late!

July 16, 2022 · 1 min · 11 words · Me