When you need to set up in a new country…

This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity This blog was written following a discussion with a UK national newspaper and they asked for information on setting up in a new country. If it’s hard to compete because of your UK cost base and you’re looking for a new location, how should […]

A lightning tour of my top 5…

This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity I was asked to speak at a National Outsourcing Association(NOA) Public Sector Event in London recently. I described my talk in the abstract as: “A lightning tour of my 5 most valuable ideas for creating highly collaborative, highly productive client/supplier partnerships”. I thought that […]

Tools For Project Managers

This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity I was asked recently: “What are the best tools for project managers?”. Of course, it’s an impossible question as there are so many tools and so many problems that need solving. It all depends on the context. However, I’ll make the case for a free […]

Performance Testing for BI

This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity A while ago, we needed to run a significant number of performance tests for a BI application written on the Microsoft stack. The non functional requirements had been a bit neglected during the early stages of the project and when there was a change […]

What is this DevOps thing?

This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity For the last couple of years I’ve been struggling a bit with the idea of devops. At the root of it, was my own lack of clarity about what devops is. My question remained unanswered and it wasn’t for the want of trying. I […]

Why are we a values driven company?

This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity I was asked this question recently by one of my colleagues in the communication team. To preserve his anonymity, let’s just call him Mr Faber! The short answer seemed like a statement of the obvious: Because it’s what I believe in and it’s the […]

Collaboration (in 10 minutes!)

This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity Recently, I was asked to speak at an event about collaboration. The format was 5 by 10 (5 speakers with 10 minutes each and no slides) and was arranged by Alsbridge. It was an interesting format because it made me think hard about collaboration […]

Three Go Wild In Warsaw!

This was first published on the blog at my other business: Objectivity It was a lovely sunny morning late in March when I saw Dorota waving to me outside the Stock Exchange building in Warsaw. We were there with Marta to attend the Polish Great Place to Work awards ceremony and we were all feeling pretty […]

Wroc#

Wow! Just returned from a trip to Wroclaw in Poland where my business (Objectivity) ran the first Wroc# development day for .Net developers. Six rock star speakers (details here) gave amazing talks for about 400 developers from all over Poland (and beyond). We live streamed the event and had at least one supporter from Australia. […]

My blog starts here…

This is my first blog! I’ve only just started and I’m not sure how it will work out. I’ve enjoyed writing for a long time so I’m not sure why I’ve put it off for so long. The thing that finally pushed me over the edge was a conference that my business organised in Wroclaw. It […]